http://llamabutchers.mu.nu/archives/126235.php Well Katrina relief has gotten down to the nuts and bolts of rebuilding Louisiana's system of patronage, graft, and voting chicanery. The central concern? Ray Nagin has to run for reelection in February, and the Democratic Party of Louisiana is... en-us http://mwguide.blogspot.com/2005/10/more-katrina-politics.html The Washington Post notes a newly considered bit of fallout from Katrina for New Orleans is the shattered political structure, and the Dem's tenuous grip on it: