After spent months trying to use his ethnicity against him, I think it's a feather in Jindal's cap that everyone talks about it now. Something, by the way, to remember next time you see the Left run for the moral high ground on perceived "racism" -- as though it meant something to them beyond their party's political success. It wasn't just the Louisiana Democratic Party, but also self-styled "progressive" bloggers, writers and message-board posters who used Jindal's race against him during this campaign.

There's nothing "progressive" about being liberal.

And I expect that when the numbers are broken out, Jindal will have done much better among black voters than other Republicans in recent Louisiana history. Recall that in 2003, he did very well in New Orleans, but lost statewide because he lost the northern part of the state -- the white, Protestant areas where Republicans normally rack up large margins. The part of the state where Democrats famously ran ads that darkened his face.

The great irony of this election is precisely the racial question. Jindal's defeat created such buyer's remorse over Blanco that it evidently removed any racial questions from the minds of northern Louisiana white voters the second time around. Plus, Louisiana now has four years to get used to having a dark-skinned governor — a great chance to open the minds of anyone who has a problem with that.