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...Duke's opponent, three-time Democratic Governor Edwards, 64, is fighting to capture the post he lost four years ago after being indicted in a racketeering imbroglio. But no matter who wins, the whole state stands to lose. "It's clear that people are not looking forward to the next 10 years," says New Orleans pollster Edward Renwick. "They're looking to the past. But it's a past that no longer exists...
...Harvard-bred hubris and a stubborn sense that only he knew what was best for the state. His sweeping reform policies, like restructuring the tax system and overhauling education, may have been Louisiana's castor oil, but voters refused to swallow it. That leaves them with a choice between Duke, who is currently a state representative, and Edwards, a high-stakes gambler with Gucci tastes, a greased-lightning wit and a reputation for skirt chasing. Bewailing the dilemma facing Louisiana voters the day after the Oct. 19 primary -- in which Edwards got 34% of the vote, Duke 32% and Roemer...
Whatever else could be said about the primary results, one thing was clear: Duke is for real. Elected to the state house of representatives in early 1989, he grabbed a surprisingly strong 44% of the vote in a failed bid for the U.S. Senate last year. Now political observers are speculating about Duke's presidential aspirations and comparing him to George Wallace, who transformed voter anger into a national populist movement two decades ago. Duke denies he has plans to run for the White House, but he warns that next year his "issues are coming to the forefront...
Last week heated Duke-Edwards arguments reverberated throughout the state, from radio talk shows to restaurants, bars and business offices. A record 64,000 people turned out at the last minute to register to vote in the Nov. 16 runoff election. Audrey Triche, a computer operator in Jefferson Parish, near New Orleans, plans to vote for Duke. "We want a change," she says. "We need it, but where do we go for it? Everybody agrees with what he's saying. Why should you come to work when you can pick up a welfare check? That's why I'm going...
Similarly indignant questions are being echoed all over Louisiana. In the thick piney woods near Mansfield, in the rural, Protestant north, Duke recently gave some 150 white partisans at a local V.F.W. hall his well- modulated litany of how an inept government and its wasteful social programs are taking advantage of law-abiding middle-class folks. "There is no bigger problem we have in Louisiana and in the country than the rising welfare underclass," he told them. "We're never going to have fiscal reform in Louisiana until we have welfare reform...