{"id":10849,"date":"2011-10-22T04:10:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T04:10:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-10-22T04:10:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T04:10:15","slug":"Louisiana-Governor-Bobby-Jindal-wins-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=10849","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal wins re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal easily coasted to a second term, winning in a landslide election after failing to attract any well-known or deep-pocketed opposition.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 40-year-old Republican overwhelmed nine competitors in the open primary, where a candidate wins the race outright if he or she receives more than 50 percent of the vote.<\/strong> With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Jindal had received about 66 percent of the total vote.<\/p>\n

His closest competitor, Tara Hollis, a Democrat from north Louisiana, garnered nearly 18 percent of the total vote. All of the other candidates were in single digits.<\/p>\n

Jindal piled up $15 million in campaign cash from around the nation and attracted no Democratic challengers with statewide name recognition or fundraising heft.<\/strong> He\u2019s had consistently high approval ratings since taking office in 2008.<\/p>\n

The first Indian-American governor in the United States, Jindal is considered by some a possible presidential contender in the future.<\/strong> He recently published a book and regularly appears on national news shows, but he ruled out a 2012 run.<\/p>\n