Bill Clinton carried the state 52%-40% over Dole, yet Mary Landrieu only eked out a 5,000 vote victory over Woody Jenkins. Usually in Southern states, local Democrats run ahead of their Presidential candidate. Landrieu ran two points behind Clinton and Jenkins ran about 10 points ahead of Dole. And its not like Jenkins was even a good candidate. He was essentially a quieter version of David Duke, while Landrieu was a popular statewide official with a golden last name in the state.
Jenkins clearly won an overwhelming majority of the Perot voters, which I can understand, but he also must have won a statistically significant number of Clinton voters, which is just weird.
Can anybody explain this?
I thought the same thing. Then again consider neighboring Arkansas which Clinton won by an even bigger margin. Hutchinson wins by a seven point margin.
