HOUSTON - In a sign of the times for his storm-stricken city, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin campaigned for re-election on Saturday -- in Houston. Nagin is one of 23 candidates in one of the more unusual mayoral elections in U.S. history because most of the voters now live in other cities.
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A recent poll showed Nagin, who is black, trailing Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, a member of one of Louisiana‘s most prominent white political families and a New Orleans mayoral candidate, by 35 percent to 25 percent.
Political experts say Nagin‘s re-election chances may hinge on his ability to mobilize the black evacuee vote because many of those who have returned to New Orleans are whites who lived in the French Quarter and Uptown sections largely untouched by Katrina.
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One man broke into tears as he said Nagin waited too long to order a mandatory evacuation of the city when Katrina was moving in from the Gulf of Mexico. ...Another man told Nagin he campaigned for him in 2002 and would do so again.
"Everything that happened was not your fault," he said.
"Thank you, brother," Nagin replied.
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