Comments for Say what? La. leaning blue? at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 11 out of 11 comments http://www.theind.com Mon, 20 May 2013 09:25:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/home/4759#comment-2444 The biggest lie in politics is that liberals are more tolerant than conservative counterparts. The liberals routinely try to shut down Rush Limbaugh, FoxNews and anyone who speaks against President Obama. They don't want to hear any opposing view except for liberal orthodoxy. Have conservatives been trying to shut down MSNBC or any of the other liberal news media outlets? I never even heard of a single time that the government even tried to shut down anti-Bush protests during his Presidency and you KNOW that would have made front page news if it had happened. And conservatives didn't shut down Air America, it was that no one was listening. Looking for a truly tolerant liberal (and not just one who will repeatedly tell you how tolerant they are)? You might as well be looking for unicorns, Bigfoot and all those rights you mysteriously lost during the Bush years. All the best, Soop - Soop Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:13:28 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4759#comment-2396 When I was little, my grandpa told me that if it weren't for the Democrats in Louisiana, his kids, my dad, would not have been able to attend school. He said he had little education because he was needed on the farm and his family couldn't afford the books. He told me he was most grateful that his 9 children could get an education and so he would always be a Democrat. Later,in the mid 1970s, when he had to use "Charity Hospital" in Lafayette, he again told me Louisiana was lucky to have politicians who cared about the poor people. I've always remembered him talking politics with me when I was too young to understand much of what he said. I could hardly wait to be old enough to vote. My personal experience has been that the Dems I've known were more inclusive, more tolerant, and more giving than the Repubs I've known. Call it bad luck, but the Repubs I've known were some of the most selfish bas***ds I've ever met. Oh, and by the way, my mom and dad, and even some grandparents, never prayed in school one single time. That was for church and home they've said. - Myrick6 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:32:45 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4759#comment-2220 Well its understandable how any area in the nation could be leaning left at this point. The GOP have no real agenda but obstruction. Remember during the height of the Bush fiasco, when if you questioned the president or his policies you were instantly labeled un-American? Where is the outrage now? I guess it proves that Dems are more tollerant of our basic freedom of speach rights. - Stranded in a sea of red Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:44:59 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4759#comment-2152 Louisiana is majority registered as Democrat out of tradition ever since pre-Civil War. This is especially true after the Reconstruction Era. However, it has traditionally voted VERY conservative outside of New Orleans. New Orleans could easily flip if the GOP started buying voters with "expense" money there. - Citizen K Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:07:14 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4759#comment-2151 All is not well at the Louisiana Democratic Party. And is no where to be found. Not standing up for our President. Not working with candidates to develop a strategy to take Vitter’s seat. Not working with legislators and local govern- ment leaders to deal with the upcoming reapportionment of political districts after the 2010 Census. The party’s absence is directly attributable to the person who sits as chairman, Christopher Whittington. The actions of the executive director Whittington hired as part of his re-election bid has made the party the target of at least two lawsuits. The highly regarded communications director left shortly after the executive director did. The entire staff of the party consists of two people, neither of which has any executive power. They are merely at the party’s Government Street headquarters in Baton Rouge to turn the lights on and off, answer the phone and get the mail. - Minnie Heyes Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:00:12 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4759#comment-2149 they are all the same. help themselves and their friends!! democrat or republican. they will try to double or triple (as lafayette's great conservative senator mike michot did) their pay whenever they get the chance. they all said that they would not be anyone left. none of them resigned. does that tell you dumb ***** something!! - northsidian Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:06:00 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4759#comment-2146 This article makes one huge conclusion which negates its finding: it assumes that everyone votes along party lines. These numbers nationwide have surely been relativelt solid over the last two decades. Elections are won by attractive candidates because people vote for the best person, not the party (for the most part). in essence, there have always been more Democrats on the national and state levels, but that doesnt mean that they all vote for Democrats or that they even all vote. In order for this article to be accurate, 100% of the population would have to vote in every election, and every single person would have to vote along party lines. - Andrew Bellard Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:56:18 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4759#comment-2140 What does it matter? If a statist changes parties from Democrat to Republican and back again, so what? How many Republican politicians in Louisiana do you hear saying it's time to cut government spending? Time to reduce the size of government? At any level? - ragin_cajun Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:23:03 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4759#comment-2134 This information was taken from the Secretary of State Website: 7/6/08 Democrat: 1,525,915 Republican: 722420 Independent: 639010 7/7/09 Democrat: 1,513,644 Republican: 742032 Independent: 647670 /- Democrat -12,271 Repub: 19,612 Ind: 8,630 I am not sure where they received their information. Numbers speak for themselves. This state is NOT turning Blue. - Veefox Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:00:55 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4759#comment-2133 poor people been votin' fo democrats fo fifty years and dey still po' --sir charles barkley - BC Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:31:00 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/4759#comment-2132 Why is this news? Nothing has changed. Democrats have long been the majority party in LA. However, what is news is that party aside, Louisiana is a politically conservative state. Do you know something to the contrary? Do you see a rising philosophical change to a more liberal stance. I don't. - justwandering Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:21:51 +0100