All of this favors the top, best known candidates.

They want the things Louisiana already has. What they don't want is income taxes and sales taxes as high as we have in the metropolitan areas.

There will be absentee balloting by mail that runs right up to the day before Election Day.

To me, it seems like it's relatively out of left field.

You have three election days for people scattered over 50 states.

You are going to have candidates going into their hotel suites to watch the returns, knowing that anything could happen.

You are going to see everything you can imagine in campaigning.

I think the most polite term that you can use is disarray ... The party apparatus seems to have taken a knockdown, if not a knock out punch.

I think the most polite term that you can use is disarray. The party apparatus seems to have taken a knockdown, if not a knockout punch.

His one shot is to get enough of the whites who liked him four years ago to like him again.