Saturday, April 22, 2006

New Orleans returns

I'm watching the New Orleans returns and I am reminded of an election we had in Natchitoches twenty years ago.

One incumbent politician had so alienated the citizenry that when the votes were tabulated he had lost by something like 90%. It was distressing.

What was really distressing for him on a personal note was that for one particular precinct, he had gotten no votes. Zero. The null set. His opponent had swept the polls. That particular precinct was where his mother voted. Even she had pulled the lever against him. He left town the next week and was never heard from again.

Anyway, I'm watching the polling in New Orleans and right now the lead is flipping back and forth. No one has a mandate yet, and the evening is young. One thing stands out, though.

Ray Nagin can probably count on his family to vote for him. That might count for a hundred votes in a large, extended family. All the rest of those folks who voted for him are absolute, unrepentant idiots.

1 comment:

Pawpaw said...

Good point, Jason. Re-electing Nagin is spite.

I prefer to think it is just stupidity. I was told that stupidity can be educated, but idiocy is forever. So, no, those folks are idiots.