May 20, 2006:
Despite poor reviews of his handling of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin wins a second term, defeating Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu in a runoff election.
The voting, as expected, is mostly on racial lines, and that was thought to be a problem for Nagin, who is black, in a city where more than half of its residents fled in the wake of the 2005 hurricane. But Nagin wins back some of the conservative white voters who supported him in the last election but abandoned him after Katrina. He portrayed Landrieu, the brother of Sen. Mary Landrieu and son of Moon Landrieu — the city's last white mayor — as part of the "politics as usual" establishment.
Nagin defeats Landrieu, 52-48 percent.
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