The Future is Cao

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The thing that scares me is that Nagin might end up as the replacement.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Question:
Just how Democratic is this district?  Are we talking like 60? 70? 80%?? Obama?

If you are implying Cao has a snowball's chance in hell of surviving, Obama did better in this district than McCain did in any district in the country and it's majority black. Cao won by having black turnout drop off and getting close to 100% of the white vote, neither of which will happen against anyone who isn't Bill Jefferson.

     Knowing Bill Jefferson, he just might run for his old seat in 2010. Unless of course he's in prison then.

Won't make it out of the primary. Not now that he's lost. Not now that every Democrat in Nawlins that's ever liked the idea of getting into Congress is thinking about running for this seat...

     I guessed as much. It just occurred to me since it's Cao's only possible chance of surviving re-election outside of switching to the Democrats & hoping to draw several strong black challengers to split that segment of the vote.

[justfollowingtheelections]

The funny thing is that Cao only recently became a Republican (he had run before as an Independent) and his positions are closer to those of the Democratic party.  He only ran as a Republican because he knew that was the only way to win.