Louisiana voters made it clear this year that they do not follow national political trends.
Democrat Paul Carmouche conceded to Louisiana Republican Congressman-elect John Fleming last week in the final election of the 2008 campaign. Fleming defeated Carmouche, a popular district attorney, by 350 votes out of over 92,000 ballots cast. He will succeed retiring 10-term Republican Representative Jim McCrery in Louisiana's Fourth District. Gene Mills, president of the Louisiana Family Forum, says social conservatives can take heart in Fleming's win. "It's not a pick-up for a Republican, but it's a retention," he claims. "And when you couple that with the two other pick-ups that [we] experienced in Louisiana, you could safely say Louisiana's not following the national trends." Instead, says Mills, the state is following a "very traditional and predictable pattern of voting for these traditional ideals as it relates to the definition of marriage, as it relates to limited government, as it relates to limited taxes -- and Louisiana continues to move in that direction." In Louisiana's Second District, Republican attorney Joseph Cao unseated nine-term Democrat William Jefferson (see earlier article). Democrats now hold a 79-seat advantage in the U.S. House after picking up a total of 21 seats this election cycle.
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