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Matcor's U.S. projects include designing and installing a corrosion-protection system for a plant in Louisiana owned by Sempra Energy, an energy utility company headquartered in San Diego. The pipeline runs for 50 miles and ties into a much larger pipeline grid heading up the East Coast. And in Hugoton, Kans., Schutt's team recently completed a job it had begun two years ago for BP. "The pipelines weren't damaged, but there wasn't enough of a force field on them," he says. Currently, Matcor's work is about 75% domestic, but it's looking to grow globally...
...stem cell research and abortion while favoring the teaching of Intelligent Design in public schools. The strategy has helped his standing among the state's conservative Christian voters, and helped him overcome the twin liabilities (in some circles) of intellectualism and ethnicity - traits that arouse suspicion in some of Louisiana's rural stretches, and that many say also helped tip the scales against him in 2003. He has mostly toed the party line in his short time in Congress, even voting - as critics never tire of pointing out - against a spending bill earlier this year that would have provided billions...
...Astonishingly, until the first of the race's three debates last week, the issue of the slow recovery of New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana has been largely absent from the campaign. Nagin, who endorsed Jindal the last go-round, said recently that he was waiting for a sign before throwing his support behind a candidate. "I've talked to just about all of them," he said. "I keep saying I'm looking to see what the commitment of the candidates are to the recovery of South Louisiana. And they keep dancing around it. And as long as they continue...
...Blanco considered by many to be irrelevant at best and outright failures at worst, voters may have decided that the entire electoral process is pointless. "I would contend that we're headed for a historically low turnout, which is the opposite of what we would have expected in Louisiana in 2007," says Shreveport demographer and political analyst Elliott Stonecipher. "I think one of two things is happening: Either people are so beat up and turned off that they just don't care. Or they're just biding their time. They know exactly what they're going to do. They...
...cost him: He began the race with a lead that made him seem like the incumbent right out of the gate. There's still time for one of the candidates to land a deadly blow or a bombshell to land; more likely, in a race that seems cautious by Louisiana standards, any surprises will come from the voters themselves...