Jindal Wins
Bobby Jindal will be the next governor of Louisiana.
BATON ROUGE, La. - U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal easily defeated 11 opponents and became the state's first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction, decades after his parents moved to the state from India to pursue the American dream.
Jindal, a 36-year-old Republican, will be the nation's youngest governor. He had 53 percent with 625,036 votes with about 92 percent of the vote tallied. It was more than enough to win Saturday's election outright and avoid a Nov. 17 runoff.
"My mom and dad came to this country in pursuit of the American dream. And guess what happened. They found the American dream to be alive and well right here in Louisiana," he said to cheers and applause at his victory party.
He has promised to call the legislature into special session to deal with ethics reform as soon as he takes office in January. There's a fight coming in Louisiana. Jindal is already looking like a winner.
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Liberty Pundit — Monday, 22 October , 2007 @ 8:48 am
By feeblemind, Sunday, 21 October , 2007 @ 7:18 am
The repubs should be heartened by Jindal’s win. I wonder if the demographic change in New Orleans is the reason he made it over 50%?
By Angevin13, Sunday, 21 October , 2007 @ 8:12 am
So much for that 2008 anti-Bush, anti-GOP landslide we keep hearing about, huh? And so much for an MSM that does little else than carry water for the Democrats. If the MSM were interested in news, the fact that the Oxford-educated, Roman Catholic-converted, Republican son of Hindu immigrants just won the Louisiana gubernatorial election as the first non-white candidate in Louisiana since Reconstruction would be major news.
By _Jon, Sunday, 21 October , 2007 @ 11:44 am
What bugs me about the MSM coverage is they refer to him as “Indian-American”.
If he was born in the US, then he is American - period.
I so despise the “divide” tactics of the media. They try to find differences with everyone - always. It is disgusting.
By Gaius, Sunday, 21 October , 2007 @ 4:55 pm
I think it was even more appalling - in the first sentence they made sure they stated that Jindal is the first “nonwhite” governor since reconstruction. Lovely.