Louisiana Nov 16, 2019 Run-Off Election Results thread

[We Live in Black and White]

Looks like it's game over for Rispone. No way in Hell his remaining friendly precincts can compensate for so much of New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

[We Live in Black and White]

When I'm right about 2020 I'll look like a genius

And when you’re not you’ll become a massive punchline here

I will be right . I understand politics better than anyone on here.

Arrogance like that won’t make you a lot of friends here

I don't care . I'm a successful 33 year old Male.  I don't care what Democrat hacks on the internet think of me.

What you are is a liar and a desperate cabrón, but go off I guess.

[We Live in Black and White]

When I'm right about 2020 I'll look like a genius

And when you’re not you’ll become a massive punchline here

I will be right . I understand politics better than anyone on here.

The 2019 governor elections are an absolute disaster for Trump and the Republicans. That's not really an arguable point.

So how will President Fartbag and his spin machine spin this one?

Haha what an amazing roast you're so funny

Take a little advice from my Neoseeker days, kiddo: trying to one-up every single message in a thread does absolutely nothing for your credibility and, in all actuality, makes you sound very much like a screeching thin-skinned whiner.

[We Live in Black and White]

Hahahahaha oh God this is just carnage now. Baton Rouge just jumped JBE up to a 1.4% lead and New Orleans still has about a hundred precincts out.

[We Live in Black and White]

Game over.

[We Live in Black and White]

Champagne/regional drink of choice all round! An excellent night indeed!

[We Live in Black and White]

If Jim Hood could have motivated black turnout like JBE did, we might have witnessed a clean sweep this month.

I don't really blame Hood for that, since JBE had actual policy accomplishments (namely Medicaid) to use as a beacon to rally Black voters. Still, would've been delightful to see.

[We Live in Black and White]

https://twitter.com/brynstole/status/1195919657934479360?s=20

hahahaha holy s**t

[We Live in Black and White]

As for the national implications of Kentucky and Louisiana: yeah, it's true that we largely won on the basis of Bevin being a steaming pile of f**k and Edwards continuously remaining popular, but - to put it the way another poster above me put it - if this is actually a lasting trend in our favor, which we can apply to Georgia and Texas, the GOP is absolutely boned next year.

[We Live in Black and White]

As for the national implications of Kentucky and Louisiana: yeah, it's true that we largely won on the basis of Bevin being a steaming pile of f**k and Edwards continuously remaining popular, but - to put it the way another poster above me put it - if this is actually a lasting trend in our favor, which we can apply to Georgia and Texas, the GOP is absolutely boned next year.

Assuming that the GOP hasn't max'ed out their rural numbers yet.

Fair argument, to which I raise the following: New Orleans tonight suggests that we haven't maxed out our urban and suburban numbers yet, either.

[We Live in Black and White]

There's another point to be made here which would make me absolutely s**t myself if I were with the GOP: even with Trump's approvals leveling out and holding relatively steady, they're still uncontrollably hemorrhaging suburban voters even in the deepest of the Deep South.

[We Live in Black and White]

Yeah. Dems doing badly in the suburbs is really bad for us if it keeps up, and there's no denying that. That's why we need Nikki Haley on the ballot in 2024.

Her chances of ever winning a Republican primary ended when she took down the Confederate flag at the SC statehouse.

Yawn. "Muh racist Republicans"

I note you did absolutely nothing to refute the argument.

[We Live in Black and White]

JBE's Victory Speech, for those who wanted it:

I always forget how fantastic a speaker Edwards actually is.

[We Live in Black and White]

Still she wasn't a "flaming liberal"...

Oh sure, I’m not saying Democrats should run "flaming liberals" in these states (being pro-life always helps), but the fact that JBE only did 1-2% better than Andy Beshear (despite being pro-life, a popular incumbent, running in a state less Republican than KY) and Jim Hood barely outperformed Mike Espy is a sign that times are changing.

So elasticity isn't a thing anymore?

Not in most places, no.