https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Louisiana_regions_map.png

uggo map

but it's pretty good

https://redstorm2018.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/Louisiana/

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Lopinto already won the JP Sheriff election so there's not much of a big deal there

Otherwise, basically all of our incumbents are great. Hell, Lopinto was technically an incumbent, even though it felt like he was a conservative challenger.

http://nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/03/scalise_election_opponent_jim.html#incart_river_index

I love how the black news station says "demographically similar"

like yeah they're both white men who cares

other than blacks, no one

Ann Coulter coming to New Orleans for town hall event

YASSSS QUEEN!!!!!!!

Now that's the first female president that we need

Marine Le Pen?

^ ^

except i lost a lot of money betting on her

sad!

I feel really bad for you because I didn't do enough for Le Pen

I hate Macron though

We need Jean-Marie to take power somehow

@Teh_Alchemist you spent money on PredictIt on her ?

IIRC, if she won you would have made a 5* profit

one thing to keep in mind is that polls in Europoor countries are generally much more reliable (almost exactly right) than polls in burgerland

I bet in crypto.

betmoose, plus there was an actual LePen coin - which is ironic because le pen wants to ban crypto

but i tried to shill for her even though it was pretty much a lost cause

Yeah, and the most accurate tend to be the most far-right--but sadly, in France, Le Pen lost by an enormous margin.

I really think it was rigged.

@Nuke Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they rigged it in France

for one thing, the polls had laserlike accuracy

Same with the Netherlands

and same with Germany

but Germany was probably the least rigged of them all

Sweden is probably going to be rigged as fuck.

@Nuke yeah, well the good news in Sweden is that the "far right" party is now the largest one

also, either Sweden or the UK will be the first western country in the 21st Century to erupt French Revolution style if things don't get fixed in a democratic manner

@Deleted User Not anymore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_Swedish_general_election,_2018

ah, apparently they're first among young voters

They've been behind since the SocDems' scandal ended and the Moderates had a leadership coup against any potential coalition (guaranteeing S victory and sending tons of economically leftist SD voters to the SocDems)

The "Right" in Sweden has the plurality but they actually allow the Red-Green coalition to run the country anyway.

Cuckangz

Plus SD isn't even posturing to be a protest vote or anything despite its situation

It's moderating its stances even more and deradicalizing to get more votes.

hmm, do you think that'll backfire on them

Yes

It's like the #1 complaint about them now

They're also holding gay pride marches and everything

to show how they're not Nazis

hmm, is it possible they'll reverse course before the election to not lose voters ? I'm not sure how politically savvy Jimmy Akesson is

Doubtful. AfD's leader wanted to do this sort of BS and she actually resigned from the party and took some elected offices to "The Blue Party" which she established within like a month after the election.

The idea isn't to maximize their vote or play long-term; it's to get into the coalition.

The idea of the hardliners is actually to lose and eventually secure majority government in most of Europe.

By gradually increasing the loyal share of the electorate

hmm, I suppose the parliamentary system does encourage comformity in that sense

Yeah, it's very rare to secure an outright majority in continental European proportional representation systems.

Majority government is only common in countries like Britain, Canada, and Australia--where they actually have constituencies, unlike countries like Germany and Sweden. @Deleted User

constituencies ?

Oh yeah, because voting in Germany and Sweden is ranked right? There are no electoral districts? You cast your vote for the party, and they will get a proportional amount of representatives

Yep.

Germany has electoral districts, but they've cucked their electoral system so it's basically proportional.

If they don't win a sufficient % of the "second vote" to win a proportional amount of the Bundestag, then they win less proportional seats, and if they really only win constituencies and not the popular vote (second vote) then seats are automatically allocated to assist other parties.

CDU+CSU could've actually had a majority govt if they didn't sign that incredibly bad deal that handed Germany to an eternal GroKo.

but fortunately

GroKo's popularity has dropped below 50%

ironic considering GroKo politicians were saying they were reluctant to take up the mantle of the Grand Coalition once more because they were so self-assured they would win a majority so massive that it would be a "threat to democracy"

@Deleted User

second vote?

Yes.

In Germany, you get two votes--one for your constituency (which is basically meant to allow independent politicians to win) and one for the proportional vote (second vote)

So you vote for a candidate and basically the system is retarded

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_2017#Results

Notice SPD only won one state

AfD won as many states as the second-largest party; it rightfully should have and could have been the CDU/CSU's sidekick, were the electoral system actually as the proponents of the system claim.

(with a hybrid proportional/constituency system)

wow, that's certainly silly

Indeed.

Feels like this state is the only one without any elections right now and yet here I am

well, it's good of you to bring up your extensive political knowledge, promoting you to admin

also, I see you're an admin of that forum - ekunia

it seems like more of a blog though

how many other users are on it

Basically

It's been dead for too long.

So, do you guys think John Bel Edwards will lose his next re-election bid?

Yep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bel_Edwards#Governor_of_Louisiana_(2016%E2%80%93present)

so what's he unpopular for

I think the trend of democratic governors in LA only continued because of David Duke running back in the '90s, right?

Doubtful.

David Duke actually brought Louisiana to the right.

And a lot of mainstream right-wing talking points on race today--most prominently affirmative action--were brought into the national discussion by David Duke.

The majority of white voters supported him, but when I was very young, many Catholics were afraid of the KKK in no small part because of the fact we almost had him as Governor.

That said, the only reason he lost was that he founded a KKK frat in college

Most Catholics were not aware of the fact his "KKKK" admitted Catholic members and many regarded his "White Christian" constituency as including only Protestants.

It's regrettable that Catholics voted for Edwin Edwards, but at the same time, they were afraid that David Duke would kill them.

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the state of Louisiana and to the motto for which it stands: A state, under God, united in purpose and ideals, confident that justice shall prevail for all of those abiding here."

Today I learned that Louisiana has its own Pledge of Allegiance.

http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_df15c9fa-57b9-11e8-bc46-1fe2d749c246.amp.html

http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1528040893491.png

@Nuke explain this