by Quin Hillyer

A year ago, the Louisiana Democratic party seemed as dead as its allegedly habitual voters from New Orleans cemeteries. Yet with a governor’s race quickening to its November 21 conclusion, Republican senator David Vitter is proving the Democrats’ greatest necromancer.

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Vitter, buffeted by multiple controversies, is trailing in polls by 11 to 20 points his Democratic opponent, John Bel Edwards, the minority leader in the Louisiana house and a West Point graduate who uses his military background to feign a conservatism his record belies…..

[From the print edition of The Weekly Standard]….READ THE WHOLE THING HERE.

 

 

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