Democrat Defeats David Vitter in Louisiana Governor’s Race
With a victory that defied political geography and near universal predictions from just months earlier, a previously little-known Democrat, State Representative John Bel Edwards, defeated United States Senator David Vitter in a runoff election on Saturday to become the next governor of Louisiana.
The Associated Press named Mr. Edwards the winner as he was leading with 55 percent of the vote with a little over half of the ballots counted
Entering the governor’s race, Mr. Vitter, a Republican, was seen as the favorite. He had won two elections to the United States Senate, spent more than five years in the House and served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1992 to 1999. But a nasty primary fight left the Republican Party fractured and slow to unite behind Mr. Vitter, who was dragged down by a 2007 prostitution scandal and the deeply unpopular Republican incumbent, Gov. Bobby Jindal.
Mr. Edwards, a social conservative and a staunch critic of Mr. Jindal whose campaign was all but overlooked for months, came out of the nonpartisan primary in October with a commanding lead over Mr. Vitter. The two engaged in a bitter fight during the four-week campaign leading up to the runoff vote, with Mr. Edwards emphasizing personal differences and Mr. Vitter highlighting red meat issues like immigration and the Syrian refugee program. But though the race tightened it remained principally a referendum on Mr. Vitter rather than an ideological contest — terrain that favored Mr. Edwards.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/us/democrat-john-edwards-david-vitter-louisiana.html?_r=0
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That goes with diaper boy.
