The Landrieu dynasty, with its perceived advantages, in Louisiana was not enough to overcome the desire of New Orleanians to reelect an incompetent and disgraced Ray Nagin to a new term as their mayor. I should be surprised, but am really not. New Orleanians voting for Nagin have expressed their desire for continued incompetent city management, and a likely repeat of the disastrous scenario of last September, should a repeat hurricane event soon follow.

A Michelle Malkin reader puts it aptly:

Evacuees were bused in from Atlanta and Houston to vote for a guy who refused to use school buses to bus 'em out before Katrina? And the guy still won. I give up.

And Paul at Powerline writes:

Having witnessed Marion Barry repeatedly elected mayor of Washington, D.C., I can't say I'm surprised at Nagin's success. Re-electing an unsuccessful or disgraced mayor apparently can become a source of civic pride, particularly when the racial politics are right.

What's done is done. Nagin will now have the opportunity to demonstrate what he learned - and failed to learn - during his incompetent response to Katrina, and New Orleanians will have no choice but to live with it, if and until Nagin demonstrates sufficient incompetence to cause New Orleanians to recall him. But the majority of the citizens of New Orleans have now set the threshold for unacceptable management of their city so high as to make that scenario almost an impossibility.