Mississippi Political Freak
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« on: March 21, 2011, 09:40:03 PM » |
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« edited: March 22, 2011, 04:32:17 PM by Mississippi Political Freak »
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He's actually from Houma, and has a heavily Cajun constituency. From that article, the main reason behind the switch is his disagreements with Pres. Obama and the National Dems. on a couple of parochial issues, especially over oil drilling, an area where many coastal Louisianans are in favor of but national Dems cool with. Also, the drilling moratorium is still in place; which seems to create a lot of backlash among Cajuns, and more or less leads to GOP's gain on Louisiana's SD's 22 and 26, and HD-46, which has pretty similar constituencies.
As for the Rodney Alexander protege, I would agree it this refers to he pace of party switching. However, State Sen. Chabert dosen't share any constituencies with Rep. Alexander in any way.
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