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Cao and Fleming win!

Submitted by the foundation on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 23:31

Read it and weep, boys, it's 3-0 since November 4th!

Congratulations to Cao to becoming the first Vietname-American to serve in the United States Congress.  We're proud to have him in the party and representing the fine people of New Orleans.  This win was a major upset in a district that is 64% African-American; the guy is a firebrand social conservative from what I've heard as he was endorsed by Focus on the Family.  Social conservatism may be the best way to appeal to African-American and Hispanic voters as Bush did in 2004.

A little disappointed with the result from the LA-4; a 365  vote win in a +7 R/D district is nothing to crow over.  It wasn't like the Chambliss result at all where Chambliss outperformed every poll, won over 200,000 votes from his 2002 victory, and won by double the margin of the +7 R/D Cook number for the state of Georgia.  A win is a win though, we'll take what we can get these days.

Three good conservatives going to Congress.  With the Virginia governor's race pretty much in the bag, the comeback is on in 2010. 

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LA 4

Submitted by Ironman on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 23:37.

1. Palin didn;t campaign there

2. GM has a huge plant in Shreveport which may be on the chopping block=might have juiced Dem vote in Caddo Parish if the Dem seemed more pro-bailout

I guess LA-2 was equivalent to the Senate race

Submitted by the foundation on Sun, 12/07/2008 - 00:21.

in Alaska; some people will ask Begich how he only beat a convicted felon by 3,000 votes while some will ask how Cao could win a race by under 2,000 votes against a guy under indictment.  Well, the answers are that Alaska has a +23 conservative/liberal advantage and 64% of the voters in LA-2 are black.