In a recent article, we made some assumptions about population trends in Louisiana based on the change in registered voters betwen 2000 and 2010. Now that detailed Census data was released for Louisiana today, we now can quantify the population shifts that have occurred throughout the state in the past decade.
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RSS feed for this section2011 Louisiana voter purge/projected impact on reapportionment
Every so often (typically after an election cycle), the Louisiana Secretary of State purges the voter rolls of inactive voters. This is typically a low key affair, but this year’s voter purge was noteworthy because it confirmed something that many have suspected since Hurricane Katrina – Metro New Orleans (particularly Orleans Parish) has lost a significant number […]
Second response to The Baton Rouge Business Report
Funny how public opinion which differs from its own can arouse the ire of the management of The Baton Rouge Business Report. Recently, the Baton Rouge TEA Party hired JMC Enterprises of Louisiana to conduct a three-question poll, which sought East Baton Rouge Parish voters’ opinions on (1) the TEA Party’s efforts to increase public […]
“Politics Never Sleeps” in Louisiana
Since the November elections, the biggest political news in Louisiana has been the party switching of five legislators (three from the state House and two from the state Senate) to the Republican party. These switches have given the Republicans, for the first time since Reconstruction, a numerical majority in the state House, and they are […]
Response to the Baton Rouge Business Report
Recently, a poll that JMC Enterprises of Louisiana conducted on the behalf of the Baton Rouge TEA Party received some editorial commentary from the editor of the Baton Rouge Business Report. In this column, the editor notes that “…Now the Tea Party says it has a “poll” by some JMC Enterprises, which I have never […]
What do EBR voters think about….?
We recently conducted a public opinion survey of East Baton Rouge Parish voters to gauge their opinion of the proposed downtown library, the performance of Mayor-President “Kip” Holden, and the Baton Rouge TEA Party. The poll results are attached below: Poll Results and Crosstabs
2010 Midterm results: Part 5 – Louisiana Lt Governor’s race
The Louisiana Lieutenant Governor’s runoff was yet another example of the Republicans’ establishing an electoral beachhead in the midst of an anti Obama/Democratic wave that affected elections here in Louisiana. It didn’t hurt, either, that the Republicans had a familiar and well funded candidate in the race: Secretary of State Jay Dardenne, who has not […]
2010 Midterm results: Part 4 – Louisiana Senate race
The seemingly eternal Senate race that started in the summer of 2009 between David Vitter and Charlie Melancon has finally ended, and the verdict of the voters was clear: anything that smacked of President Obama and/or his Democratic policies was soundly rejected in most parts of state. While Senator Vitter always maintained double digit leads […]
2010 Midterm results: Part 3 – Louisiana Congressional races
In the previous two articles in the series, we looked at the Senate and Governor’s races across the nation. We would like to shift gears in this article to focus on the Louisiana Congressional races.
2010 Elections At A Glance
House Projection – 261 Republicans, 174 Democrats (+84 Republicans and +2 Democrats) Senate Projection – 51 Republicans, 49 Democrats (+10 Republicans) Statehouse Projection – 34 Republicans, 15 Democrats, 1 Independent (+10 Republicans and +1 Independent)