Bosque Boys friend and contributor, Tocqueville, offers up this brief but perceptive analysis of the recently concluded gubernatorial race in the Bayou State:

1. You will note that all the Democratic Party theories about race, the South, and politics were again disproven as Louisiana elected a conspicuously dark-skinned Indian as governor. He won an absolute majority in a field of ten.

2. He was a Republican who defeated a Democrat. I suggest that, even if the media and the Democrats cannot determine who was responsible for the Hurricane Katrina disaster, the electorate in Louisiana understands perfectly well that the corrupt, clownish Democrat mayor of New Orleans and the bumbling Democrat governor of Louisiana warrant the lion's share of the blame.

If the Bush administration is responsible and the governor and the mayor were merely bystanders, one would hardly expect the party of Bush to sweep a Louisiana gubernatorial election with this ease. Coupled with the near defeat of Democrat Tsongas in Massachusetts, one would think that this result in Louisiana would send shivers down the spines of the Democratic Party.

A Post Script: Did you see that Harry Reid's approval numbers in Nevada are lower than Bush's numbers? I find no commentary to this effect in the mainstream media.
~~Tocqueville