Spent most of the evening over at DailyKos and Timshel, making comments about the Governor's election here in Louisiana.

Thanks to Cory in New Orleans, who also made regular posts on Timshel's comments to keep readers up to date on NOLA's coverage of the election.

Am glad, but not thrilled that Blanco won--this was a lesser-of-evils choice if there ever was one. Fortunately, the lesser evil won.

A number of comments over at Kos referenced race regarding Jindal's loss. My take is that there is a little bit of truth to that, sadly. Blanco took a number of parishes in the north part of the State. But the big factor in her win was voter turnout, which was higher than so-called experts thought, and the VERY LARGE support for her among African American voters. I'm pretty sure when the voting trends are analyzed, we'll see that Jindal's poll numbers showing upwards of 15 percent support among African Americans were inflated.

Here in Baton Rouge, Jindal won, but only by about 8,000 votes out of 130,000 cast in the parish.

And a final note: Cory down in NOLA, in comments over at Timshel, characterized Jindal's concession speech perfectly--he sounded like a 'poor loser.' Indeed. In fact, let me quote his comment:

"Jindal didn't congratulate or even mention Blanco's name in his speech.

WWL-TV's political analyst was saying that that is the first time he's seen a concession speech like that. No one even knew if Jindal had called Blanco to congratulate her as is expected.

Also, after Jindal's speech, his 'security detail' rushed him offstage refusing all requests by reporters to speak with him.

That's certainly the first time I've ever seen that.

'Poor loser' comes to mind."

Link.

WBRZ, in contrast, called his speech "classy." As I commented over at Timshel, what a crock.

But, it's time to go celebrate, and it's also Saturday. Will try not to get too hung over, and will try to work on posting a little more regularly.