Word: pinsonat
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...sure the pressure is on for him to resign, but I don't think you'll see it," says political analyst Bernie Pinsonat. "That's just not his nature." There's the chance that Jefferson will be acquitted at a trial. "And if he isn't convicted, he will be reelected," Pinsonat says...
...Breaux is said to be under pressure to make a decision in the next few days, legal questions notwithstanding. "The ball is in his court," says independent pollster Bernie Pinsonat. "He probably thinks he can win. The question is, does he want to leave a great job and come down here, make $100,000 a year and spend his life dealing with partisan politics?" Pinsonat says his most recent poll shows Jindal leading Breaux by 30 percentage points. "It doesn't mean [Breaux] can't win," he says. "But he can't come down here and expect a coronation...
...Republican rival for governor, Bobby Jindal, now a U.S. representative and likely Blanco opponent in her expected bid for reelection next year. "The last four years, Nagin hasn't worked well" with lawmakers, from the governor down to the New Orleans City Council, local political analyst and pollster Bernie Pinsonat said. "Maybe he's serious this time, but he hasn't been a bridge builder for the last four years...
...uninhabitable and the elementary school where she taught in the Lower Ninth Ward has not reopened. "This particular race is going to determine what's going to happen to New Orleans," she said. The fact that her neighbors didn't return to vote in large numbers is ominous to Pinsonat. "A lot of people have been watching," he said, "and don't see much progress, or hope...
...city's most prominent white businessmen - Joe Canizaro and Donald "Boysie" Bollinger - who are close to the White House, but neither has come out publicly for him so far. If Nagin can't match the third of the white vote that Landrieu received, then, the pollster Pinsonat says, "stick a fork in [him], he's done...