Subject: Gingrich cites Dem win in Baton Rouge as GOP alert
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Newt says Dems win in Baton Rouge
wake call for GOP
My Plea to Republicans: It's Time for Real Change to Avoid Real Disaster
by Newt Gingrich
Posted: 05/06/2008
The Republican loss in the special election for Louisiana's Sixth Congressional District last Saturday should be a sharp wake up call for Republicans: Either Congressional Republicans are going to chart a bold course of real change or they are going to suffer decisive losses this November.
The facts are clear and compelling.
Saturday's loss was in a district that President Bush carried by 19 percentage points in 2004 and that the Republicans have held since 1975.
This defeat follows on the loss of Speaker Hastert's seat in Illinois. That seat had been held by a Republican for 76 years with the single exception of the 1974 Watergate election when the Democrats held it for one term. That same seat had been carried by President Bush 55-44% in 2004.
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State Rep. Don Cazayoux, a Democrat from New Roads who billed himself as a moderate polled 49,702 votes last Saturday to narrowly beat Republican publisher Woody Jenkins of Baton Rouge, who got 46,741 votes, for the District 6 seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Jenkins is a traditional conservative.
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