Given that Democrats have abandoned statewide races for attorney general, lieutenant governor and secretary of state and that Gov. Bobby Jindal faces no opponent holding an elected office, John Maginnis says, Republican party members have no one left to fight but themselves for the state’s highest offices. “This election cycle will prove that Louisiana is still a two-party state,” Maginnis says. “There’s the Republican Party and the Tea Party.” Read his full column here.
(John Maginnis publishes LaPolitics Weekly, a newsletter on Louisiana politics, at LaPolitics.com.)
