How is it that a Republican governor who wins in a landslide without a runoff, who remains enormously popular one year later, cannot help his party’s nominee for the United States Senate just 12 months after his own election? You would think that Jindal would be campaigning state-wide for Kennedy, be all over television, and telling the voters that he needs Kennedy in Senate to push for reform. Surely in many areas of the State this message would resonate with the same voters who pushed Jindal to such a grand victory.
You have to ask if Jindal is even trying? As another poster pointed out, Jindal seems much more interested going into other states to help other state’s candidates, which really just gives Jindal an opportunity to campaign in front of a larger audience. All part of building a national campaign.
Why would Cassidy need Dick Cheney when he has in his same city a sitting governor of the same party who just a year ago easily got many of the same votes that Cassidy needs now?
Of course it isn’t uncommon for governors to decline to become involved in elections, but why is Jindal choosing when he wants to play by the old rules and when he want to make new ones. Part of his sales pitch was that things must change, that we need a new way of thinking. Using the power of the governor’s office to affect change would seem to be a good place to start.
