Louisiana Nov 16, 2019 Run-Off Election Results thread

[Pericles]

I don't really care JBE won anyway. He's a DINO.

Owning the libs like you don't really care your party lost. JBE expanded Medicaid which is something a GOP Governor would not do, so he's definitely a Democrat.

And Republicans won't get to gerrymander Louisiana for the 2020s, there will be a fair map.

[Pericles]

I'm beginning to think maybe Trump needs to stay in office until his term is up.  He's the best good luck charm that the Democratic Party has had in decades.

Impeachment is basically certain not to result on Trump's removal from office imo. My hope is that by laying out the truth it will alienate swing voters and play a role in hitting Republicans in 2020 (and it is clearly an impeachable offense so it would be a dereliction of duty morally for Democrats not to impeach and not to even attempt to hold Trump accountable).

[Pericles]

Good thing that JBE pulled through, but those rural 2015 -> 2019 trends do not bode well for a far-left candidate like Warren or Sanders next year.

Obama was not wrong yesterday:

It needs more of a centrist, or Trump wins again powered by these rural voters.

Ya see, John Bel is a very nice centrist and it's not exactly working for him either.  Racist hicks are racist.

Let's be honest, a Bernie/Warren type-candidate would have done MUCH worse in the rural areas. Edwards may not have won them, but lowering the margins of defeat was crucial to his victory (and Beshear's).

Well yeah, but it's not so much that Bernie and Warren are unusually bad in rural areas (neither of them were the 2016 nominee who got crushed rurally, that was Hillary). I think both Warren and Biden (even though he's supposed to win back the WWC lol) will get crushed by similar margins in rural areas, the difference will be more on the margins, maybe Biden does better in the suburbs, or maybe Warren has better base turnout, or one could do better than the other with Obama-Trump voters.

[Pericles]

Well,
It was really weird all these messages saying "likely rep !!!" at the first round while the polls weren't wrong and it was always going to be close.

Classic Atlas overreaction. JBE was always slightly ahead.