New Orleans Mayoral Election 2006

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Don't any of you think it odd that a city whose current population barely scrapes 200,000 had 100000+ ballots cast in this election? People were driven from Georgia and Texas to cast ballots in a city some 500+ miles away. A few others who couldn't handle the rigors of a road trip didn't vote merely vote absentee ... they voted by fax machine.

All this initiative from a city government who couldn't be bothered to evacuate residents from a city lying below sea level before a Catagory 4 hurricane.

If this election is any indication of Louisiana's upcoming gubernatorial race, Blanco will win reelection against Jindal by a 5+ % margin.

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So what do you know? Don of Memphis TN was right after all.

My own random observations

1. New Orleans will not have the benefit of two Landrieus throwing taxpayer money after the city. That is perhaps a good thing.

2. Mary Landrieu is up sh*t creek vis-a-vis her own reelection. She, a sitting senator, couldn't pull her base for her own little brother!

Corollary to (2): To her relief, at least this election, as have most off-year elections, has shown how strongly pro-incumbent the American voting mood is. The GOP has only slight worry of losing the House, and virtually none in losing the Senate. And even defeats of incumbents in primaries will not result in the loss of a congressional seat to the opposite party.

3. Mitch Landrieu's career will resemble Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's of MD, i.e. he will be selling insurance in two years