| As Lamar noted, the Jackson campaign insists that it has a legitimate shot of winning LA-06 in November:
Here are the 6th Congressional Districts Demographics:
African Americans = 34.9%
Republicans = 33%
White Democrats = 32%
In the Democratic run-off for Congress in April, Michael Jackson received 90% of the African-American votes and between 10%-20% of support from white voters. If we maintain these percentages it will be more than enough to win this election. 40% WINS IT! Therefore, every vote counts.
The logic above is so flawed. It forgets that Don Cazayoux pulled a similar, if not higher, percentage of African-American voters during the May General Election against Woody Jenkins. It forgets that that there are Independent voters, who make up 21.6% of the LA-06 electorate. On top of that, it overstates the percentage of black voters in LA-06 by 3.7%. And it doesn't even take into account that some of those black voters will NOT be voting for a Democrat, nor an independent candidate like Mr. Jackson, as they are Republicans! (All data in this paragraph was found at http://69.2.40.145/voter_stats/).
And I wonder how those 15,068 voters that voted for Mr. Jackson in April will feel once they learn that Michael Jackson VOTED FOR THE LEGISLATIVE PAY RAISE this spring!
The pay raise fiasco, which would have given legislators a 200% pay raise, and would have taken effect IMMEDIATELY, was properly booed by editorial boards and voters alike this spring. Thankfully, Governor Jindal buckled under the pressure of the bright lights of state-wide opinion, and increasing national opinion to veto the pay raise.
Michael Jackson doesn't care about the plight of the working class folks of LA-06 ... he only cares about making more money for himself. Not only did he vote to give himself an immediate 200% pay increase in the Legislature, but he now wants the voters of LA-06 to reward him with a Congressional seat, one that pays some $169,000 per year. |
