Tonight, there were special elections in two legislative districts: a house race in New Orleans, and a senate race in Acadiana. Both races were settled tonight in landslides, as the victor in each case was elected with at least 60%... (Continue reading)
The current issue of City Journal has an article from Nicole Gelinas which is well worth a read. It’s an overview of New Orleans’ recovery from Katrina and how in many ways the city has successfully translated one of the... (Continue reading)
Lots of developments as Louisiana politicos choose sides among candidates in advance of the Nov. 2 elections… First, Sen. David Vitter is now touting a raft of endorsements from Democrat politicians across the state. A campaign release today includes a... (Continue reading)
Cedric Richmond, who wants to be a Congressman and has the endorsement of both the mayor of New Orleans and the president of the United States, apparently isn’t a particularly friendly bar patron. He also sucks at pool. And he... (Continue reading)
Over the weekend, the President gave a speech at Xavier University in New Orleans to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Crescent City. While we at the Hayride have intentionally attempted to leave Katrina alone as much... (Continue reading)
Last night, both Louisiana and West Virginia conducted their Congressional primaries. Though the Louisiana Congressional primary was a very low turnout affair (7% overall turnout, with 13% on the GOP side and 5% on the Democratic/Independent side), there are several... (Continue reading)
The conventional wisdom is that Secretary of State Jay Dardenne is a shoo in for the Lt Governor’s race. We would like to test that assumption by examining the strengths/weaknesses of the major candidates running in this race and projecting their vote... (Continue reading)
We are now half way through candidate qualifying, and for the major races, nearly all of the incumbents/major players have qualified. After an initial rush of qualifiers yesterday morning, qualifying yesterday afternoon and this morning has proceeded as a slower pace, with... (Continue reading)
For tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday, candidates will be qualifying for national, statewide, and local races in Louisiana. What may be confusing is that while we will return to open primaries for Congressional races, we are still using party primaries for... (Continue reading)
from a release out of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office this morning: BATON ROUGE – Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced that Scott Angelle will be his nominee to serve as Lieutenant Governor after Mitch Landrieu takes office as the Mayor of... (Continue reading)