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Blanco Bests Bobby
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| Contributor | Tony82 |
| Last Edited | Tony82 Nov 17, 2003 10:17am |
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| Category | Analysis |
| News Date | Monday, November 17, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A week ago today, polls showed Republican candidate Bobby Jindal at least ten points ahead of Democratic challenger Kathleen Blanco going into the homestretch of the Louisiana governor's race. Yet on Saturday, Blanco beat the GOP wunderkind by four-percentage points, leaving the state's Republicans stunned and depressed. What happened?
"Jindal ran a perfect campaign for five weeks," said John Maginnis, the state's leading political journalist. "But it's a six-week campaign."
Most observers agree that Jindal's collapse in the final week had to do with the health-care issue. When outgoing Republican Gov. Mike Foster appointed Jindal head of the state's Department of Health and Hospitals in 1995, Jindal brought the agency out of bankruptcy, and turned a $400 million deficit into a surplus by slashing the budget. Campaigning for governor, Jindal cited this experience as an example of how his management expertise solved a major governing crisis. |
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