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Democrats expand big tent in the Deep South
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| Contributor | Ashley |
| Last Edited | Ashley May 14, 2008 10:30am |
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| News Date | Monday, May 12, 2008 11:50:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON - The May 3 election of Democrat Don Cazayoux in a Louisiana congressional district that had been Republican for decades might be followed by the victory of Democrat Travis Childers in Mississippi’s heavily Republican First Congressional District.
Childers faces Republican Greg Davis in a special election Tuesday. Underscoring the importance of the race, Vice President Dick Cheney will speak at a rally for Davis in Southaven, Miss. Monday.
As the Democrats’ “big tent” expands, it is getting more Southern. But how much influence can conservative Southerners such as Cazayoux really have on a House leadership headed by liberal Speaker Nancy Pelosi?
In his first days last week as the new representative from Louisiana’s Sixth District, Cazayoux was busy learning his way around the halls of the Capitol.
At one point he wandered off from the staff member assigned by Democratic Whip James Clyburn to shepherd him. But Cazayoux kept his conservative ideological bearings. |
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