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.
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