Something is wrong. A political thing happened in Louisiana, I'm not feeling crushing despair, and the corners of my mouth are pulling upwards in a wholly unfamiliar fashion.
And EVERYONE that works there. Just need them to know that we KNOW they participated in this. “Just doing my job” wasn’t excuse at Nuremberg and won’t be here.
I find extremely hypocritical for republicans to whine about billionaires pouring in millions of dollars to support what the people WANT AND NEED! Good job LA. As one of the poorest, lack of REAL education, and I mean separation of church and state, the people need to stand together and say ENOUGH
The article cites 12% expected turnout and 21% in reality. On one hand, jaysus - that's democracy? On the other, at least special elections are easy to crash when the ruling party gets to greedy.
*pushes up glasses*
Actually, too in this context would mean as well, while to would be used to mark an infinitive verb, which you're using "crash" as.
I don’t want to be wet blanket on what is such good news, but…
With only 21% turnout, only the most politically engaged came out. In a general election, especially a presidential one, we deal with another 30% of turnout, and they tend to be stupider than a box of rocks. YMMV.
Yes & no.
21% is high when they were expecting 12%. And it was only 20some% when they elected Landry.
Now CAs are a different beast than candidates - they don’t inspire the same tribalism. But this was definitely more than just politically engaged folks. There was a funded turn out operation.
Louisiana used to be the most wonderful place to live. I lived uptown (Delachaise and Magazine) then moved to Old Town in Mandeville - this was in the early 90s. It breaks my heart to see it's devolution, although this election gives me a little hope.
This is misleading. It's a top-two primary with a general in May, so even if the Democrat got the most votes here, they wouldn't haven't won; they would face off against the more popular of the two Republicans in May. (Also, most votes aren't counted yet.) https://www.wdsu.com/article/jefferson-parish-march-29-election-results/64131180
This cracks me up, because I’ve been enjoying the ping pong match of accusatory commercials between Kerner and Templet that split the votes so neither could win.
I kept driving past Templet's billboards like "did you even change anything after your last election run just 4 months back?" Guess when you think you're owed a spot, you don't step aside.
I don't know how to type and I'm not awesome, I just read what I write many times before I post anything: quite far from perfect but that WAS a funny typo
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'Blah blah "far left liberals" blah blah blah "radical democrats" blah blag "marxist judges" ':
Fewer and fewer people are buying that mouldy old boilerplate GOP bullshit.
https://www.nola.com/news/politics/elections/louisiana-constitutional-amendments-voted-down/article_e0224515-e6db-4871-9a85-ba6f687a4d71.html
'a resounding message that the agenda behind these amendments never had a mandate and that voters are sick of being lied to.'
Is it a stroke?
https://lailluminator.com/2025/03/29/louisiana-amendments-3/
he is responsible for everything good!
I’m sure it all reeked of Speakers Johnson’s hypocrisy
I'm confused, though. Because it seems that he is saying that billionaires pouring money into politics is a bad thing.
I wonder if he holds that same view of musk doing that same thing.
The second amendment has failed.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/louisiana-voters-reject-4-constitutional-025549216.html
https://lailluminator.com/2025/03/29/louisiana-amendments-3/
Actually, too in this context would mean as well, while to would be used to mark an infinitive verb, which you're using "crash" as.
With only 21% turnout, only the most politically engaged came out. In a general election, especially a presidential one, we deal with another 30% of turnout, and they tend to be stupider than a box of rocks. YMMV.
21% is high when they were expecting 12%. And it was only 20some% when they elected Landry.
Now CAs are a different beast than candidates - they don’t inspire the same tribalism. But this was definitely more than just politically engaged folks. There was a funded turn out operation.
DNC, hire those organizers.