Ed Renwick Quotes (13 Quotes)

Number-one problem, Katrina was the worst disaster in the history of the United States. Number two, the lack of leadership by the president, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency ), the governor and the mayor.

We don't know who the people are who are going to vote and we don't know where they are.

What hes done is reverse his base. He got 85 of the white vote when he was elected first time. Now, this time, hes likely to get a small percent of the white vote, but a large percent of the black vote.

It's not good news for an incumbent to be in a runoff.

It's low. It was a very important election and there was great interest in it, but of course many people aren't here. Turnout among people that were here probably was considerably higher than 36 percent.

If it's a close race between second and third place, that number of voters could be very important.

It certainly didn't look like there was any mass movement out of Houston to Lake Charles to vote.

Its so hard to predict because we dont even know who the voters are, where they are or who theyre going to vote for, so that kind of leaves a few holes to be filled in.

A lot of whites thought there would not be another white mayor. And blacks thought there always would be a black mayor. Now they are starting to rethink their position.

The black vote used to be heavily concentrated. Large numbers of blacks that were identifiable and reachable, in public housing. Much of that has been taken down, virtually none of it is being used.

It's expensive enough to advertise in metropolitan New Orleans, but if you have to add in Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Houston and Atlanta, you might as well run for president. I don't know what the answer is. And, of course, for direct mailing, they don't have their addresses.

Nobody knows who they are or where they are or if they're going to vote. Ideally, you'd have to run a multi-city campaign in Baton Rouge, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta.

By definition, any time an incumbent is forced into a runoff, it means he has lost support of a majority of the people.