vote today!

[Gourmondo]

The weather's nice for weekend fun activities, but particularly if you're an Orleanian, don't pass on your opportunity to unseat Dollar Bill. Also, we appear stuck with Riley for now, but at least you have an opportunity to affect the outcome of the DA and judges races. Anything that moves the criminal justice sector in the right direction deserves your time. Vote early and often!

[Suzy Wong]

Done!

The amount of signs on the neutral ground was absurd......

[Gourmondo]

I am a bit surprised that Moreno pulled this off. While I knew she had some solid white support and some major bucks behind her effort, I had suspected that one of stronger black candidates would come in second. Presumably they split the difference. With probably a high black turnout for Obama next month, it would appear Bill's chances for re-election are very solid unless some of his base defects. While there are a lot of blacks who are ready for a change, I doubt that enough of the black population is reform-minded enough to change the equation by voting for a white woman/untested political newbie, but I could be wrong. A high overall turnout might pull in more of the reform crowd, but that group is just not large enough to change the result.

That 17,000+ mostly black voters continue to vote for this joker is just pathetic and sad. Bill could run against Jesus Christ and these morons would still vote for him. :covri:

[Suzy Wong]

I didn't realize I wasn't supposed to vote, I'm a registered Republican. odd...But they let me vote.:confused:

[Gourmondo]

I didn't realize I wasn't supposed to vote, I'm a registered Republican. odd...But they let me vote.:confused:
There was (not surprisingly) a fair amount of confusion about the closed primaries yesterday.

The other thing that is unique about the election is that it may be the last one for the 2nd District as we know it. With post-Katrina pop. loss factored into the 2010 census and subsequent re-districting, La. will probably lose a seat in Congress and Bill couldn't win again in the re-drawn district (assuming he is not incarcerated by then). But losing the seat is not good for us at all, regardless of your political stripe.

I am old enough to have been around when there was a closed system before and when I first registered eons ago, pretty much everyone registered Democrat just to have a say in the process, regardless of one's actual political philosophy.

[justagirl]

The people where I voted made a big scene about me being registered REP...

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I am praying that Jefferson wins the runoff and Nagin is kept in office so that the last bastion of true black culture in the USA will be safe from being turned into a cesspool of peace and love or something like that.............