LA-2 Runoff Results

[Nutmeg]

90 of 492 precincts reporting

Candidate                     Number of votes     Percentage of votes
Karen Carter (D)            3043                       48%
William Jefferson (D)      3357                       52%

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Better site:

http://www.wwltv.com/

[Nutmeg]

221 of 492 Precincts   (45%)

William Jefferson (i)   13,727   54%
Karen Carter             11,618   46%

[Gabu]

Jefferson is up to 56%.

I think this one is probably over.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It'll be interesting to see which precincts voted for each candidate

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It'll be interesting to see which precincts voted for each candidate

How much you want to bet the Republican precints went heavily for Jefferson?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It'll be interesting to see which precincts voted for each candidate

How much you want to bet the Republican precints went heavily for Jefferson?

Not sure... depends how racially polarised this result turns out to be.

He's up to 57% now, btw.

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It'll be interesting to see which precincts voted for each candidate

How much you want to bet the Republican precints went heavily for Jefferson?

Of course they are, he's the more conservative candidate, plus you have people like DownWithTheLeft who voted for Jefferson just to try to make the Democrats look bad.

Louisiana is switching to closed primaries for federal elections, which should help clean out the DINOs like Jefferson.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If Republicans broke heavily for Jefferson, then he's probably gone in 2008 since he would be unlikely to survive a closed primary.

But that's assuming he's still in Congress instead of prison in 2008, so it's most likely a moot point.

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It'll be interesting to see which precincts voted for each candidate

How much you want to bet the Republican precints went heavily for Jefferson?

Of course they are, he's the more conservative candidate, plus you have people like DownWithTheLeft who voted for Jefferson just to try to make the Democrats look bad.

Louisiana is switching to closed primaries for federal elections, which should help clean out the DINOs like Jefferson.

Yeah, well the voters of LA-02 still deserve a giant FUCK YOU.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

58% now.

Another slap in the face for the Landrieu's by the looks of it.

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If Republicans broke heavily for Jefferson, then he's probably gone in 2008 since he would be unlikely to survive a closed primary.

Yes, this is definitely a good argument against open primaries. Closed primaries = no dollar bill.

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58% now.

Another slap in the face for the Landrieu's by the looks of it.

The Democrats need to just write off Louisiana, the voters are useless.

[Deano963]

It'll be interesting to see which precincts voted for each candidate

How much you want to bet the Republican precints went heavily for Jefferson?

Of course they are, he's the more conservative candidate, plus you have people like DownWithTheLeft who voted for Jefferson just to try to make the Democrats look bad.

The mere thought that there are multiple freedom-hating DWTL-types out there is a truly depressing one. Please never speak of it again.

[Democratic Hawk]

275 precincts

Jefferson 57% / Carter 43%

Dave

[Brandon H]

Local news is showing Orleans Parish is roughly 50 - 50 while Jefferson is leading Orleans by a wide margin. They mentioned Carter's McKinney-like comments in Spike Lee's documentary and Jefferson's Parish Sheriff Harry Lee's comments about Carter "running her fat mouth".

Derrick Shepard is saying the same thing.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The parts of Jefferson parish in this district are mainly black aren't they? (going off memory here, could well be wrong).

[Brandon H]

But an Orleans Parish Councilman who is supporting Carter says he doesn't think Sheriff Lee's comments about Carter's comments played a role in the results.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I love how it's all gone quiet here...

[Alcon]

I love how it's all gone quiet here...

All except the faint sounds of sobbing and broken dreams.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The parts of Jefferson parish in this district are mainly black aren't they? (going off memory here, could well be wrong).

Well Orleans Parish voted 77% for Kerry and the district on a whole voted 75% for Kerry, so the parts in Jefferson Parish can only be marginally more Republican to get those numbers, so yes, they most likely are predominately black.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Little snippet from an ap article...

The scandal turned the race into a debate largely divided along racial lines, an age-old dynamic in this city that has intensified since Hurricane Katrina displaced large numbers of blacks and upended their demographic and political dominance.

Whites, who overwhelmingly voted for Carter in the primary and have been her most enthusiastic financial backers, believe a Jefferson win would confirm this city's image as corrupt and untrustworthy as it asks the nation to fund its recovery from Katrina.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

And from another article:

Accomplishing a feat widely considered impossible, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin managed to get re-elected in May by stitching together an unlikely coalition of working-class black voters and white conservatives.

Now, a few months later, it appears that U.S. Rep. William Jefferson is trying to replicate Nagin's feat, or at least compose a variation on the same theme.

In the fight of his political life, the embattled congressman is running to both the political left and the right of state Rep. Karen Carter

The two New Orleans Democrats face off Saturday for the 2nd Congressional District seat in a runoff expected to turn on their ability to broaden their established bases along racial lines and to appeal to Jefferson Parish voters, whose influence in the district has expanded since last year's flood emptied New Orleans neighborhoods.

On one hand, Jefferson, for the first time in his long career in public office, is touting his conservative votes in Congress against same-sex marriage and late-term abortions. And he is attacking Carter for having "sold out our family values" through her avowedly abortion-rights stance in the Legislature and her opposition to scheduling a statewide vote on a constitutional amendment that sought to define marriage as the union of "one man and one woman."

At the same time, the eight-term congressman also has been trotting out his liberal credentials as an outspoken advocate of displaced public housing residents and out-of-work public school teachers and hammering away at the campaign contributions Carter has collected from Republicans.

[Brandon H]

WWL TV (4) is calling the race for Jefferson.

[© tweed]

And from another article:

Accomplishing a feat widely considered impossible, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin managed to get re-elected in May by stitching together an unlikely coalition of working-class black voters and white conservatives.

Now, a few months later, it appears that U.S. Rep. William Jefferson is trying to replicate Nagin's feat, or at least compose a variation on the same theme.

In the fight of his political life, the embattled congressman is running to both the political left and the right of state Rep. Karen Carter

The two New Orleans Democrats face off Saturday for the 2nd Congressional District seat in a runoff expected to turn on their ability to broaden their established bases along racial lines and to appeal to Jefferson Parish voters, whose influence in the district has expanded since last year's flood emptied New Orleans neighborhoods.

On one hand, Jefferson, for the first time in his long career in public office, is touting his conservative votes in Congress against same-sex marriage and late-term abortions. And he is attacking Carter for having "sold out our family values" through her avowedly abortion-rights stance in the Legislature and her opposition to scheduling a statewide vote on a constitutional amendment that sought to define marriage as the union of "one man and one woman."

At the same time, the eight-term congressman also has been trotting out his liberal credentials as an outspoken advocate of displaced public housing residents and out-of-work public school teachers and hammering away at the campaign contributions Carter has collected from Republicans.

Why are you up at 4 am?