Tonight was a very good night for the Republicans, as they were victorious in Congressional special elections that were held both in New York and Nevada. The New York race was nothing short of an upset of Scott Brown proportions, so we will focus on that race today. [...]
In our previous installment, we had noted the onset of Louisiana election season, as well as the fact that Democrats had written off a special House election in Nevada, while getting more nervous about their chances in a special election for a House seat in New York City. [...]
Candidate filing has concluded in Louisiana. This was the first year in history that Democrats largely stayed away. So what happened? [...]
The second day of filing has concluded (the deadline to file is 5PM tomorrow). Most of the remaining “holdouts” among the incumbents did end up filing today, and some more challengers filed today as well. Overall, however, the pace was considerably slower than yesterday (40 candidates for statewide legislative office filed today, as opposed to the 246 who filed yesterday). [...]
The first day of filing concluded, and nearly all incumbents who were supposed to qualify did so, although there were a fair number of challengers who filed today as well. [...]
One of the biggest mistakes a candidate can make is to be unaware of external events that may distract voters from the candidate’s attempt to reach them. One of those external events is football season. Therefore, we have examined the football schedules of the New Orleans Saints, LSU, and Southern, so that we can see how those events may conflict with “election season.”
The election/political schedule can be accessed here.
In our previous installment, we noted that Mississippi has decided on its Democratic nominee for Governor, while in Wisconsin, the two Democrats up for recall survived the recall elections, thus leaving the Wisconsin Senate at 17-16 Republican. [...]
Once Labor Day is over, candidate qualifying begins Tuesday morning, and continues until 5PM Thursday afternoon. Up for election this fall are all (1) all statewide elected officials (Governor, Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, etc.), (2) all 144 legislative seats, (3) the state education board (also known as BESE), and (5) local and parish wide races, although three parishes (Avoyelles, Concordia, and E Feliciana) will not be having police jury elections this fall, since their new district lines were not approved in time by the Justice Department. [...]
In our previous installment, we noted that Democrats only achieved partial success with the attempted recall of six Republican senators. While they did recall two Republicans, one of those was due to personal issues, while the other was merely a case of Democrats mobilizing to defeat an incumbent Republican in a heavily Democratic district – Barack Obama received over 60% of the vote there. However, Republicans are still in control of both houses of the Wisconsin legislature. [...]
This is the third “Pulse of Louisiana” poll we have conducted. In the first poll, we measured the re-elect numbers for President Obama and Senator Landrieu, and we also looked at how her healthcare reform vote has affected her re-elect numbers (the results of that poll are here). [...]
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