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RBInMaine

(13,570 posts) Sat Nov 21, 2015, 10:26 PM Nov 2015

Looking good so far for Jon Bel Edwards in LA. Somewhere around 10% in and WAY ahead right now.

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Looking good so far for Jon Bel Edwards in LA. Somewhere around 10% in and WAY ahead right now. (Original Post) RBInMaine Nov 2015 OP

I voted for Edwards. Would be nice if we didn't have another shit for brains republican Katashi_itto Nov 2015 #1

I sent in a donation from Maine. Kindred spirits with distant mutual ties to French Acadians. RBInMaine Nov 2015 #2

:) Looks good so far. Edwards is ahead by 30k Katashi_itto Nov 2015 #3

@AoSHQ has called it for Jon Bel Edwards. BlueCaliDem Nov 2015 #4

WOOOOOOT!!! It will only take us 20 years to dig out of the mess Jindal left us. Katashi_itto Nov 2015 #5

Hmm now that I think about it. It's kind of early to call it isnt it? Katashi_itto Nov 2015 #6

AoSHQ has been following this closely. I'll be surprised that their calling it for Edwards proves BlueCaliDem Nov 2015 #7

Jon Bel Edwards is thanking LA for his win. BlueCaliDem Nov 2015 #19

What? Not yet. yeoman6987 Nov 2015 #8

Jon Bel Edwards is thanking his constituents for helping him win! BlueCaliDem Nov 2015 #18

Folks in Shreveport and NO are charged Iliyah Nov 2015 #9

Yes! SunSeeker Nov 2015 #10

Edwards won! Iliyah Nov 2015 #11

20% in & Edwards up 59-41. BLOODBATH so far for Vitter-The-Whore-Chaser. Bwahahahahaha... RBInMaine Nov 2015 #12

TOUCHDOWN! 45% in and called for Edwards by media. Vitter is TOAST! STRONG CAMPAIGNS WIN !!! RBInMaine Nov 2015 #13

... Liberal_in_LA Nov 2015 #14

YIPPEE Iliyah Nov 2015 #15

Wow, this is great news! Spazito Nov 2015 #16

62% precincts reporting..Edwards up by 10 pts Liberal_in_LA Nov 2015 #17

Katashi_itto

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1. I voted for Edwards. Would be nice if we didn't have another shit for brains republican

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Sat Nov 21, 2015, 10:28 PM

Nov 2015

RBInMaine

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2. I sent in a donation from Maine. Kindred spirits with distant mutual ties to French Acadians.

Reply to Katashi_itto (Reply #1)

Sat Nov 21, 2015, 10:34 PM

Nov 2015

French Acadians from Canada were removed by the British and New England colonials in the French and Indian War given they were considered French-Army/Government sympathizers. Some were already in Maine and stayed (along with other French immigrants), some from Canada stayed in Maine, and many of course migrated to Lousiana, at that time a Spanish colony, and became the "Cajuns" (meaning Acadians, of course). Today both Maine and Louisiana have many French-speaking people. We are both also ocean states with coastal resorts and many of the same traditions of seafood, hunting, trapping, etc. Amazing how many similarities two places so far apart can have.