The vote is on......

Early voting for the New Orleans election has started. Bus loads of displaced New Orleanians are rolling in to vote at satellite voting locations. (Shame busses couldn't have been mobilized to get people out quicker before and after the storm....) For quite a while now there has a been a frenzy of activities and suggestions as to how to get ballots to displaced voters - some of which have been hilariously ridculous (the suggestions and attempts have been hilarious - not the voters....as far as I know, but I digress.) Politicians are fighting for their political lives.

The saying has always been: so goes New Orleans, so goes the state. New Orleans was the population base of the state. The ninth ward was the population base of New Orleans. That's all changed now. It's going to be interesting to see what happens politically now in this state where politics has been an entertaining/frustrating spectator sport. It may get downright boring -- but probably not anytime soon.