LA-GOV: Jindal Leads Breaux 56-26
LA Voters Seem Ready to Look Forward, Not Backwards
By Adam C Posted in 2007 — Comments (8) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Despite the media's portrayal of ex-SEN Breaux (D) as a demi-god in LA, a new poll from SMOR (3/19) shows:
Jindal (R): 56%
Breaux (D): 26
Campbell (D): 5
Boasso (R): 2
Undecided: 12
The same polling company found Jindal leading Blanco 59-24 on 3/19 not much different than Jindal's lead 58-31 over Blanco on 1/18. So it seems that the substitution of Breaux for Blanco isn't changing the race that much (although I'd prefer to see a second poll to confirm).
That shouldn't surprise people closely following the race. Jindal has run on his own competence, intelligence and vision instead of running an anti-Blanco campaign. With Blanco dropping out, this decision seems vindicated. And Jindal's vision of a prosperous and reformed LA is popular.
Jindal is the future of LA, Breaux is the past.
As mentioned in one article covering the poll:
Pollsters, like Bernie Pinsonat of Southern Media & Opinion Research, tell thenew995fm.com that the latest polls show that former U.S. Senator John Breaux would be ‘a significant underdog' in a race against Republican Congressman Bobby Jindal. Pinsonat says the latest survey shows Jindal leading Breaux by nearly 30%, with 55% of those polled favoring Jindal and 25.6% supporting Breaux. The pollster says ‘not a lot of people could name anything he (Breaux) has done for Louisiana recently.
That happens when a former populist becomes a Big Lobbyist.
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but I too would like to see another poll, preferably after there's an announced Dem candidate (be that Breaux or Landrieu or Other)
LA Dem says they need "centrist, white candidate"
to beat Jindal.
Oh boy! Charlie Melancon's(D-LA) stepped in it now. Can a Dem be a racist? Surely not.
Will CNN, ABC,CBS, NY Times and the Wash. Post excoriate him for his racist remarks? Perish the thought, he's a Democrat.
That poll looks a little suspect. No crosstabs, and the website of the polling firm looks like somehting from the last decade.
I wish this poll were accurate, but...I'm doubtful.
It would be awesome if Jindal were to win on the first ballot with 56%, though.
Also, hopefully Ann Northup can knock off Fletcher in Kentucky and hold that governorship for us.
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Breaux's residency issues are not going away, and even the political types in the state know that winning a long court battle would be a hollow victory.
The old New Orleans Democratic machine is going to flex it's muscles push their boy, so look for Mitch Landrieu to throw his hat in. Mitch has been making the rounds of the state lately, handing out pork etc in CENLA so all the moves are there.
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