10.5% axed for Ray. Then they peed on themselves.

Pollsters, for the first time, have been able to demonstrate roughly what percentage of a state's adult population is made up of abject idiots.

In the initial test state for the psycho-demographic study, Louisiana, researchers have demonstrated that the test sample of "likely voters" contained 10.5 percent blithering idiots, who probably drool on themselves and possibly could be institutionalized under state statute. The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune has the story:

A new statewide poll in the Louisiana governor's race shows Republican candidate Bobby Jindal with a strong lead over his competitors, including one question that listed New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin in the lineup of candidates.

In a telephone poll conducted Aug. 3-6, Southern Media & Opinion Research Inc. of Baton Rouge asked 600 likely voters who among the major candidates they would vote for if the election "were held today."

Jindal, a congressman representing the 1st District, led with 63 percent, followed by state Sen. Walter Boasso, D-Arabi, with 14.3 percent, Democratic Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell with 4.4 percent and Republican Metaire businessman John Georges with 1.3 percent.

In the poll that included Nagin, Jindal had 60.3 percent followed by Nagin with 10.5 percent, Boasso with 10 percent, Campbell with 3.3 percent and Georges with 1.5 percent. Nagin, a Democrat serving his second term as mayor, has not announced his intentions for the future.

IT'S BEEN REPORTED THAT NAGIN finds his overwhelming support among knuckle-dragging morons to be "a two-edged sword," but that it, at least, "keeps my brand name out there."