Meanwhile, in The Gret Stet
Timshel links to an Advocate article that actually doesn't fawn all over Jindal, although his main page notes more trouble for Blanco. The Advocate and NOLA are picking up the torch for Bobby, reporting on a supposedly negative spot that Blanco is running on radio stations. The ad says that Jindal would be the third term of Foster, and once again charges that the Republican Party would like to suppress the vote. The two papers are giving Jindal's comments strong play, as did WAFB last evening.

I think Jindal got pretty lucky to pick up some endorsements from prominent African American individuals and groups, but he's still behind the eight ball, so to speak. Another article I linked to from Timshel's site makes it clear that African American voter turnout will be the key to the election--Jindal, yes, is receiving an unusually high level of African American support for a Republican, but I think in the end he'd prefer a low voter turnout--especially if his numbers among African Americans begin to fall, which I think will happen as Blanco hopefully uses a replenished war chest to blanket the airwaves over the next week and a half.

CrawlingWestward hit the nail on the head, though, with this comment:
All this is getting pretty boring, and I hope it ends soon. It's the news cycle from hell as Blanco and Jindal throw back claim after claim that everything is the other guys fault. I didn't start it. S/He did it first. Let's try to talk about something else for once.

Blanco could/should get on the air, stay on the air, and focus on positive messages until the election. She comes across as sincere in her television ads, and I'm sure the steady exposure would lift her numbers, which would force Jindal to go negative, reversing the present trend, which always seems to depressingly end with Jindal, seemingly above the fray, shaking his head and pretending to be disappointed by the negative campaign.