Yall's Ain't Bubbas Cajun Voting Tomorrow

The Republican candidate for governor in Louisiana is Bobby Jindal, a wunderkind son of Indian immigrants, dark-complexioned Rhodes scholar and health policy wonk. The Democrat is Lt. Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, a soothing Cajun grandmother easily flustered in debates.

What's a Bubba to do?

"Listen, man, we're looking at a guy who's not even from this country! And then we're looking at a woman!" said Jubal Vallot, 38, a handyman in Lafayette sporting tattoo-spangled forearms, a Chevy pickup truck and a fist-size clump of keys at his belt.

He hooted and shook his head at the outlandishness of the selection.

"I go to church, I believe in the good Lord and this 'n' that. I never ever dreamed in my whole life -- I been right here in Louisiana -- that I'd be in this kind of dilemma."