CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Louisiana Primary Results

    Update 23: Barack Obama Will Win Alexandria, Louisiana By Wide Margin Update 22: CNN Projects Barack Obama Will Win Louisiana Update 21: Huckabee Has Double Digit Lead 402 1% Giuliani, Rudolph W. – 19,286 48% Huckabee, “Mike” – 90 0% Hunter, Duncan – 174 0% Keyes, Alan – 15,373 38% McCain, John – 1,898 5% Paul, Ron – 2,731 7% Romney, Mitt Update 20: Democratic Turn-out in Rapides Parish Dramatically Out-pacing Republican Turn-out Update 19: 25% Reporting 1,486 2% Biden, “Joe” – 31,651 38% Clinton, Hillary – 480 1% Dodd, Christopher J. – 3,795 5% Edwards, John – 351 0%…

  • PCD: Hillary Clinton for President

    “I didn’t learn about hope yesterday[;] I’ve had hope my whole life. It’s not hope that we need[;] its [sic] help!” Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), the author of the Gulf Coast Hurricane Recovery Act of 2007, understands the difference between hope and help: hope for a functioning democracy wherein all citizens are granted equal access to power and resources has always defined the modern Democratic Party; these hopes, however, will only attain realization through help, through the implementation of rigorous policies that redress the social problems from which dreams and aspirations not unparadoxically spring. Because Hillary is the only candidate…

  • Barack Obama in New Orleans

    This morning, Barack Obama spoke at Tulane University about his plans for the City of New Orleans. Oyster was there and presents an excerpt of Obama’s speech here. The full transcript is available on the Times-Picayune. Not surprisingly, it’s a great piece of writing, and it offers many specifics about what policy changes we would see in an Obama administration (bold mine): 1. “When I am President, we will finish building a system of levees that can withstand a 100-year storm by 2011, with the goal of expanding that protection to defend against a Category 5 storm. We also have…