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When will GOP lawmakers lead?
 About one week before the Feb. 19 special election to name a state senator in District 26 in Acadiana, an advisor to Republican Rep. Jonathan Perry called a seasoned political consultant in Baton Rouge to discuss Perry's chances of beating Democratic businessman Nathan Granger.
At that point in the campaign to pick outgoing-Sen. Nick Gautreaux's successor, Perry was trailing Granger by about 7 points according to recent polling. To surmise, the seasoned consultant advised Perry's man that his candidate would lose the election unless "that fella in the White House is introduced to the voters of District 26."
In other words, the time had arrived for Perry to get down and dirty and connect Granger with President Obama and the rest of the Democrat Party establishment in Washington. Whether the connection was accurate was beside the point. The point was Granger was a Democrat like Obama, and as we all know, Obama is about as popular in Louisiana among white voters as a visit to a urologist for a prostate examination. A urologist who has big hands, that is.
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