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Earlier this week the Times-Picayune’s James Gill, in a column panning Charlie Melancon’s campaign to date as a threat to the viability of politics as Louisiana’s state pastime, asked whether we will soon see the handiwork of Democrat strategic guru and New Orleans resident James Carville as Melancon’s side attempts to climb out of a [...]

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Yesterday, U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon took a shot at tripping up his opponent in the upcoming U.S. Senate race, David Vitter.
If Melancon thought he was bringing out the big gun to knock down Vitter’s 24-point lead in the polls, though, what he ended up using looked more like a pea shooter.

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Democrat Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Charlie Melancon, roaming the state in a “listening tour” as he attempts to overcome a 24-point deficit to Republican incumbent David Vitter, told the Baton Rouge Advocate yesterday that the president and his party’s leadership has things all wrong on health care.
Melancon, who voted against the first version of [...]

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Governor Bobby Jindal was a very busy man in 2009. He was working non-stop, not on Louisiana business, but on his own personal political agenda. Over the last year, Jindal traveled out of the state for approximately 40 fund raising events, raking in about $5 million. Over the past two years, Governor Jindal has raised [...]

Filed under: Bobby Jindal, Elections | 1439No Comments »http://thehayride.com/2010/02/gov-jindal-the-8-million-man/Gov.+Jindal%3A+The+%248+Million+Man2010-02-22+17%3A54%3A23Jeff+Crouere

Historically, the Democrats had strong majorities in both houses of the Louisiana Legislature. That began to change starting in 1995. At that time, the GOP tidal wave of 1994, which was part of a larger anti-Clinton tidal wave across the South, finally reached Louisiana. That tidal wave was further augmented by a FBI gambling probe [...]

Filed under: Elections, Jay Dardenne, Louisiana | 1413No Comments »http://thehayride.com/2010/02/the-effect-of-term-limits-on-the-2011-legislative-elections/The+Effect+of+Term+Limits+on+the+2011+Legislative+Elections2010-02-19+04%3A50%3A55JMC+Enterprises

The revelation yesterday that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will have a book coming out in July has made waves among those who were convinced all along that he’s gunning for something larger than his current job.

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Three highly-publicized issues involving U.S. Sen. David Vitter in the past two weeks, along with an increasing momentum for Republican and conservative candidates nationwide, seem to be driving a major surge for Louisiana’s junior senator in his bid for re-election this fall, as a new Rasmussen poll has Vitter scorching his Democrat opponent, Congressman Charlie Melancon, [...]

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This column marks the debut of Oscar, TheHayride.com’s resident voracious rodent and all-around pestilential influence. We want it known from the beginning that any relationship between what the little guy says and the editorial position of TheHayride.com staff is completely coincidental – were it not for certain contractual and/or economic factors unfortunately in play we [...]

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Polls had shown Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu lingering below 50 percent in his attempt to subdue an 11-candidate field in the New Orleans mayoral race held Saturday, but as it turns out there might not be any need for a runoff.
With 37 of 366 precincts tallied, Landrieu is carrying better than 65 percent of the [...]

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In the two weeks since the New Orleans Saints won the NFC Championship Game and launched the NFL franchise into its first Super Bowl, a good deal of national attention and well-wishing has descended upon the city.
That’s been a good thing. But along with the kudos and good feelings have come an aggravating, and, frankly, [...]

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