Number-one problem, Katrina was the worst disaster in the history of the United States. Number two, the lack of leadership by the president, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency ), the governor and the mayor.
We don't know who the people are who are going to vote and we don't know where they are.
It certainly didn't look like there was any mass movement out of Houston to Lake Charles to vote.
It's low. It was a very important election and there was great interest in it, but of course many people aren't here. Turnout among people that were here probably was considerably higher than 36 percent.
Nobody knows who they are or where they are or if they're going to vote. Ideally, you'd have to run a multi-city campaign in Baton Rouge, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta.
It's expensive enough to advertise in metropolitan New Orleans, but if you have to add in Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Houston and Atlanta, you might as well run for president. I don't know what the answer is. And, of course, for direct mailing, they don't have their addresses.
This is the most screwed up election I've ever seen.
It?s so hard to predict because we don?t even know who the voters are, where they are or who they?re going to vote for, so that kind of leaves a few holes to be filled in.
It's not good news for an incumbent to be in a runoff.
Blacks got used to winning, and whites got used to losing. Now with all of this upheaval, some blacks think that maybe they're not going to win, and some whites think they're going to win.
