Campaign thoughts after the election!

By: Jim Brown

Change is in the air. Even down here in the deepest of deep southern states, we are seeing the leaves on trees turning from green to a variety of browns. Thank goodness, the weather has changed from toasty warm to right down pleasant. And if you want to see some real change, take a look at our politics.

Who would have thought that such a massive blue wave would sweep across the entire country. President Trump told voters repeatedly, some 37 times, that they should vote as if he were on the ballot. And voters did. They gave the Republicans a shellacking.

And get this. Who would have believed that in the Louisiana U.S. Senate race, an African American Democrat, who could not even get re-elected to the police jury in one of the smallest parishes in the state, would come within a whisker of defeating Trump’s hand-picked candidate, who is a sitting United States Congresswoman.

Now I know coming close only counts in throwing horseshoes and hand grenades. But the Republican candidate, Julia Letlow, did little more than wrap her arms around President Trump and smile at cameras without taking any positions on issues. She should thank her lucky stars that the national Democratic Party did not give the Democratic candidate, Jamie Davis, any help at all. A little aid from the Democratic Party would have sent Letlow back to teaching school again.