Josh Marshall of TalkingPointsMemo says that the governor's election in Louisiana on Saturday could have been "a bellwether for Syrian refugee hysteria and politics," because the Republican candidate David Vitter "devoted the last week of his campaign to demagoguing . . . the issue in a desperate effort to save himself."
And yet Vitter was defeated 56% to 44% by Democratic rival John Bel Edwards, suggesting -- at the least -- that Vitter's scare-tactic was not enough to overcome his scandal-ridden reputation.
Still . . . Louisiana will continue to be a very conservative state: all the other state-wide offices were won by Republicans, and Edwards himself is pretty conservative. But at least we know that, just one week after the terrorist attacks in Paris, voters were not totally swept away by fear and demogoguery. Vitter lost by about the margin that had been predicted before the Paris attacks.
Ralph
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