New Orleans Strip Clubs: ‘Serious sin’ senator’s 2010 bid to give early glimpse of scandal …
July 27, 2009
… We know that midterm elections are a referendum on the party in power,” Ulm said. “When you have an economic environment like this … if it doesn’t have to do with people’s economic worries and hardships, it’s just immaterial.”
Other independent analysts agreed that Obama’s unpopularity in the state — he got less than 40 percent of the vote in November — could make things difficult for any Democrat.
Stonecipher said Obama’s numbers “will be toxic in Louisiana” by the time of the election, while University of New Orleans political scientist Edward Chervenak said Vitter is simply “a better ideological fit with the state than any Democrat right now.”
Louisiana has a reputation for tolerating misbehavior. Witness former Gov. Earl Long’s cavorting with stripper Blaze Starr in the 1950s, former Gov. Edwin Edwards’ frequent one-liners about his reputation as a womanizer and former Congressman William Jefferson’s re-election to a ninth term after FBI agents said they found $90,000 in bribes he’d taken stashed in his freezer.
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