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...only serious obstacle could be the same thing that helped Blanco edge out her upstart opponent in 2003 - the impression that Jindal is an overachieving bureaucrat who has little empathy for the poor in a largely poor state. A Rhodes scholar whose parents arrived in the U.S. from India just months before he was born, Jindal was selected to run the state's Department of Health and Hospitals by Blanco's predecessor, two-term Republican Mike Foster, at the ripe old age of 24. The Baton Rouge native guided the bloated department through a rough period of cutbacks, both...
Four years ago after coming within a few percentage points of being elected the nation's first Indian-American governor, conservative Louisiana Congressman Bobby Jindal is well positioned to make it all the way this fall...
...Even before Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, his previous opponent, opted out of a reelection bid, her popularity buffeted by what many saw as a dismal performance during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the painfully slow recovery since, polls showed Republican Jindal, 36, with a commanding lead in a do-over. And with weeks to go before the October 20 primary, and no big-name Democrat in the race - New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin and former U.S. Senator John Breaux both stepped aside after toying with the idea of running - many here are betting that Jindal will get the 50%-plus...
...term, and in possession of at least $500,000 in campaign funds, Nagin is said to have his eye on the 2008 gubernatorial race. Few people think he could actually win, but the real possibility of making it into a runoff against the G.O.P. fron-trunner, U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal, would cement his status as the top dog among black Louisiana politicians and add to his stature with the national party...
...long as the Breaux question remains unsettled, it appears that Louisiana may be headed for another milestone: Jindal, if he succeeds the state's first woman governor, would become the nation's first Indian-American governor. But Louisiana's peculiar open primary system, in which candidates of all parties vie for a spot in the November runoff election, has a way of producing surprises; throw the lingering effects of Katrina in the mix, and anything is possible. Just ask Kathleen Blanco...