Tim Morris in a Times Picayune article of 8/7/16 does his best to document that Louisiana is a republican state and says most Louisiana voters believe that the republican party best represents their views on the role of government, moral values, religion, abortion, taxes, guns and national security. He also said it would take an asteroid event to stop Trump from winning Louisiana in November. Morris also uses comments by a UNO and LSU representatives to prove Louisiana is a ruby red state that leans toward the right.
The people of Louisiana have a free will to vote for the candidate of their choice but their opinions about who best represents the views of the people do not pass the fact checking test. And if Morris thinks Trump has a positive record on those views he needs to seek other employment. The people of Louisiana helped to elect George W. Bush twice and did elect Jobby Jindal twice but neither one has a positive record of accomplishments and both left office with a very low job approval rating, much lower than 50%.
Louisiana is still at the bottom or near the bottom in health care, the economy, jobs, balancing the budget and so many other areas compared to the other states so being a red state is not very persuasive. In fact democratic administrations are actually the best at representing the voters views but the voters can not bring themselves to admit it.
Louisiana may vote red in November but will still have a democratic governor who will out perform Jindal in accomplishing good things for the state and its people. And that is really what counts most for the state because it is Louisiana's actions on the issues that affect the people more than the federal government's actions. So in the end democratic blue will triumph over the republican ruby red big time.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
