No Democratic Candidates in This Year's Louisiana Elections

On Thursday September 8th, it appeared that there would be no Democratic candidates in the Louisiana State Primary on October 22^nd. According the report, there have been less and less Democrats running in the statewide elections. Louisiana is one of the last of the Southern States to “resist the Republican tide”. Louisiana Senator, David Vitter’s explanation of the wave of Republicans is the “corruption and cronyism” of the Democrat’s ‘courthouse crowd’”. This summer the amount of Democratic representatives dropped below the 50^th percentile. Caroline Fayard (D) decided this year, that she would not run for Louisiana secretary of state, but not because of the current status of the Louisiana Democratic Party.

For there not to be any Democrats running in the statewide elections, means that there is not really an equal competition on who will win seats in the legislature. If there is at least 1 Democrat in the legislative then the entire state of Louisiana will have more of a say, whether they are Democrat or not. The main reason why we have a Democrat representative and a Republican representative in elections such as the Presidential election, is so that every single person can have their ideas heard. It would be difficult for such things as the "Pathways of Action" to happen without both parties looking to run for an office.