The strategy of Sen. Vitter to tie Edwards to Pres. Obama is the wrong idea in the governor's race
David Vitters got it all wrong, strategy-wise.
Voting for John Bel Edwards is the same as voting for Barack Obama as governor of Louisiana, Vitter said Saturday night.
Not really, given that Edwards is a social conservative far from Obamas views on a number of issues, but its a forecast of the Vitter runoff campaign.
Having scraped into the runoff with 23 percent, a far cry from polls earlier in the year, Vitter banks on a tried-and-true theme because it has worked for him. He won re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2010 despite a personal scandal by raising the cry against the president among conservative Louisiana voters. His protégé, Joel DiGrado, was mastermind of the 2014 Senate race in which Bill Cassidy thumped Obama although technically it was Mary Landrieu on the ballot.
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