Kathleen Blanco Wins Louisiana Gov. Race

Jindal led narrowly in most polls until about 48 hours before Election Day. Then, with little to separate the two conservative candidates ideologically, Blanco closed out the campaign by launching a blistering attack on Jindal's record as Louisiana's deficit-cutting secretary of health and hospitals in the mid-1990s. The attacks helped eliminate what had been Jindal's edge, and analysts said lingering racism might also have undercut him on Election Day.