Louisiana primary chat

[Sam Spade]

Given past history, I am really surprised that anyone thought Mitt would get over 30%.

[Sam Spade]

Obama lost La Salle Parish.  That's Jena.

FWIW, he lost by 14 votes.

The precinct level results in La Salle are... somewhat expected.  Obama won one precinct 41-1.  He received zero votes in a whole bunch of other precincts.

In the South, especially the rural South, there are black precincts and there are white precincts.  

[Sam Spade]

Obama lost La Salle Parish.  That's Jena.

FWIW, he lost by 14 votes.

The precinct level results in La Salle are... somewhat expected.  Obama won one precinct 41-1.  He received zero votes in a whole bunch of other precincts.

In the South, especially the rural South, there are black precincts and there are white precincts.  

True enough but aren't African-Americans more scattered across Louisiana relative to the rest of the Deep South?

The blacks in LaSalle are packed into two precincts in Ward 10.  There may be a few blacks in other places in LaSalle, maybe like 10 or so, and they may well still be slaves, or at best sharecroppers, for all I know.

[Sam Spade]

Wolfe beat Obama in 3 parishes.

map?

Wolfe won La Salle, Grant, and Cameron.

The heart of David Duke country and that place that voted for Landrieu while giving Obama 16%. Though perhaps its interesting that they're still voting in Democratic primaries.

Well, LA is a closed primary and they did vote for Edwards in 2008 even though he had already dropped out.