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LAST SUNDAY, in New Orleans, Louisiana, a few hundred people marched in opposition to gubernatorial candidate David Duke. Only a few hundred, and only in New Orleans. No one marched in Poughkeepsie, New York, in Gary, Indiana, or in Portland, Oregon...
Vocal public disapproval with Duke, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan who is now on the verge of winning Louisiana's Governorship, has been notably absent across the country. Only in Louisiana have voters expressed their discontent. Elsewhere, Duke's remarkable rise in the polls has turned few heads...
...David Duke? As a Klansman, he made hateful attacks against Blacks, Jews and Catholics. He denied that the Holocaust ever happened. And since his days under the white hood, he has been a consistent opponent of civil rights for minorities...
...sure that Duke will be turn out to be a hateful racist if elected Governor, but it's a pretty good bet. Putting this man in the governor's office is a risk we should not take. Anyone who has said the things David Duke has said should be thrown out of politics...
Beyond threatening the rights of Louisiana's citizens--particularly racial and religious minorities--Duke's vault from the Klan to success in the political realm poses a more widespread danger. His success could turn an otherwise fringe group of hate mongers into a national movement of racism...