Self-delusion Reigns: Bobby Jindal and His 2016 Presidential Unreality
On Wednesday, June 24, 2015, Louisiana’s lame-duck governor, Bobby Jindal, plans to announce his run for 2016 President of These United States at 4 p.m. at the Ponchartrain Center in Kenner, Louisiana.
I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Jindal for President is as likely as Obama’s being legally elected for a third consecutive term.
Not going to happen.
In a June 07, 2015, article, Politicus USA writer Jason Easley notes:
Gov. Bobby Jindal is going to be running for President, but his approval rating has sunk so low that President Obama is more popular than the Republican in deep red Louisiana.While discussing Jindal’s failures in Louisiana, The Washington Postdropped this little nugget of information, “Jindal is now so unpopular in deep-red Louisiana that his approval rating plunged to 32 percent in a recent poll — compared with 42 percent for President Obama, who lost the state by 17 percentage points in 2012.”In our current era of national geographic political polarization, President Obama is not popular in any of the red states. Being more popular than Obama in Louisiana should be a low hurdle for any Republican, but Bobby Jindal is ten points behind the President in a state that Obama was not competitive in during either of his presidential campaigns.Bobby Jindal is running for president, but he has struggled for years to be more popular than President Obama. In 2013, Obama was 5 points more popular than Jindal. The margin has doubled in the last two years.Jindal’s popularity has plummeted in direct relation to his attempts to impose the Republican/Koch agenda on his state.
And what is that “Koch” agenda? Easley summarizes as he also captures Jindal’s well-known personal agenda in the process:
In 2013, Gov. Jindal tried to replace the state tax with a higher sales tax, butSelf-delusion Reigns: Bobby Jindal and His 2016 Presidential Unreality | deutsch29: