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"  Time was when Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal looked at 2012 \u2014 looked at himself, as above, from this profile \u2014 and thought, &amp;quot;Why not me?&amp;quot; Then he gave a response to President Obama&amp;#039;s first State of the Union speech and America replied, &amp;quot;Because, like, wow, dude.&amp;quot; (Jindal&amp;#039;s speech was notable for his ridiculing the notion of volcano monitoring. Then this happened. Jindal&amp;#039;s timing remains impeccable.) That said, and even given the way that the landscape has been changed by the Citizens United decision, the numbers in this piece, leading up to his primary in less than a month, utterly astound me: While Jindal had more than $7.7 million left in the bank, his best-financed opponent, Democrat Tara Hollis, had just $4,612 on hand \u2014 or .06 percent of Jindal&amp;#039;s total.  (An aside: At the Florida festivities last weekend, I spent some time chatting with the people in the Citizens United booth, the straw poll being conducted simultaneously with a kind of wingnut trade show. They are enormously proud of the great victory they won before the Supreme Court, however much it may have deformed American politics. They have a right to be proud, I guess. I&amp;#039;m betting John A. Sandford once felt pretty much the same way.) Honestly, though, how can the leading Democratic candidate have less than $5,000 in the bank? And, also, Jindal has nine people running against him in a Republican primary. God love Louisiana. (&amp;quot;The New Actuality&amp;quot; by Richard Phillips, oil on linen, 33&amp;quot; X 48&amp;quot;. Commissioned for Esquire, June 2008. For &amp;quot;Bobby Jindal, All American&amp;quot;) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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