The strategy of Sen. Vitter to tie Edwards to Pres. Obama is the wrong idea in the governor's race
David Vitter’s got it all wrong, strategy-wise.
“Voting for John Bel Edwards is the same as voting for Barack Obama as governor of Louisiana,” Vitter said Saturday night.
Not really, given that Edwards is a social conservative far from Obama’s views on a number of issues, but it’s a forecast of the Vitter runoff campaign.
Having scraped into the runoff with 23 percent, a far cry from polls earlier in the year, Vitter banks on a tried-and-true theme because it has worked for him. He won re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2010 despite a personal scandal by raising the cry against the president among conservative Louisiana voters. His protégé, Joel DiGrado, was mastermind of the 2014 Senate race in which Bill Cassidy thumped Obama — although technically it was Mary Landrieu on the ballot.
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