Votin' day

[infrogmation]

Today's the election run off here in New Orleans. We'll see which of the low-key bald Democrats known for their cross racial appeal will be mayor. Also other stuff; like if a corrupt incumbant city councilman will succeed fooling folks again with great gobs of money spent on ads explaining how he's the candidate of change.

Mayor Ray says if we stay the course, that money and help the Feds have been promising us should start coming in any day now.

Meanwhile, the Picayune's Chris Rose did a short-attention span flippant questioning of the mayor candidates.

  Rose: There's another flood. You are in a rescue boat. You arrive at a rooftop to find Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. There's only room for one in the boat. Who do you take?

  Landrieu: They both get left.

  Nagin: I give them the boat and get on the roof and wait for the helicopter.

Mitch actually took part in rescues during the great flood, but here he demonstrates he's a true humanitarian...

Comments

[entheos93.livejournal.com]

Well, Clarkson is out on her ass, anyway. Maybe now the musicians and tarot readers can live in peace, and we can have bum-proof benches.

Bootin' day

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Booting Clarkson and Batt out are certainly good signs. We'll take 'em where we can get 'em.

Re: Bootin' day

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

Both Clarkson and Batt are out on their collective butt. Party time! :)

[asienieizi.livejournal.com]

I watched the run off debate between Landrieu and Nagin friday. My predictions would normally be a Landrieu win but since it's N'awlins, anything is possible. Nothing in the world is more entertaining that Louisiana politics!

Run off

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Yeah. If I'd had to guess in advance, I would have predicted 51% for Landrieu. Some poll last week predicted him by 10%, but all the post-K polls have had huge and unpredictable margins of error, as they're largely based on who can be contacted by pre-K phone numbers.

While people had preferences, not many folks who I knew were really passionate about any big difference between Mitch and Ray. (And the candidates' own apparent lack of passion has been remarked on.)

Here in the Riverbend area, when I walked up the street this morning to get the Sunday Picayune, I got into a bunch of election conversations, some with folks who are usually just nod and "good day" neighborhood aquaintances. Everyone was feeling that the city council races were much bigger news, and most were grinning and gloating at the challengers booting entrenched incumbants.

Most of the main stream media coverage I caught seemed to want to use racial divisions as the hook for the mayor's race. Of course with research they'd find out things like the leading local white Republican backing Nagin and the leading black newspaper endorsing Landrieu... New Orleans politics is both more complex and wackier than it looks at first glance.