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The exodus of white Democrats to the GOP in southern state legislatures this year is the last chapter of a very old story about realignment, one that -- in this homogenous media age -- has finally come to the most local levels of politics. This, in Georgia, is something different -- and striking to insider because one of the switchers, Ashley Bell, is a former president of the College Democrats seen not that long ago as a Democratic rising star: Two African-American Democrats on Thursday announced that they were joining the Republican Party. Hall County Commissioner Ashley Bell and former...

<p>BATON ROUGE - Gov. Mike Foster charges on the radio that if Lt. Gov. Kathleen Blanco is elected governor, her husband "would be the most powerful man in Louisiana."</p> <p>Vernon Parish voter Neil Nash calls a news office to say he's voting for "that woman Blanco because we don't need this 32-year-old foreigner in the mansion."</p>

Chic Leftist BigotryOctober 12, 2003by Bruce Walker The Left does not care about bigotry except as a carefully nurtured vice used to create artificial schisms between peoples and to leverage Leftism into undeserved power.  Grand bigotries fed constantly by the Left are familiar to anyone trapped in the prison of popular culture: men are all rapists; white people are all racists; Christians are all intolerant maniacs.The hypocrisy of this animus is also well known.  Leftists defend genuinely and dangerous misogynists like Bill Clinton and Gary Condit, but throw thoughtless condemnations at men who threaten Leftist hegemony, like Arnold Schwarzenegger and...

<p>Republican Bobby Jindal has agreed to participate in a number of televised debates, but there could be a problem.</p> <p>He might be the only candidate there.</p> <p>Democrat Kathleen Blanco said Friday she would have to check her calendar to see if she is available on the nights Jindal has set up with television stations.</p>