Also setting a record was the low turnout of not quite 36%. This was perhaps unsurprising,as the election was held on a Saturday, and Mr Jindals overwhelming popularity, not tomention his crushing financial advantage, made his victory an all-but-foregone conclusion. Heis an unusual figure in Louisiana politics: Ivy League educated, young and born in BatonRouge just months after his parents emigrated there from Punjab. When he was elected fouryears ago, at 36, he was the youngest governor and the only Indian-American one . He haspushed hard for ethics reform; no mean feat in a state that, as one former congressman putit, is half underwater and half under indictment.
同样创下纪录的,还有不到路易斯安那州人数36%的投票人数。这或许不足为奇,因为竞选是在周六举行的,此外,金达尔的广受欢迎,更别提他的经济优势,都使他赢得竞选几乎成了探囊取物。在路易斯安那州的政治家里,他算得上卓尔不群:毕业于常春藤盟校,年轻有为,在其父母从旁遮普移民到美国几个月后,他在路州首府巴吞鲁日出生。四年前,他赢得路州州长竞选时,年仅36岁,成为了美国最年轻同时也是唯一一位印裔州长[2010年,南卡罗莱纳州选举妮可?哈雷为州长,父母也是来自旁遮普的她在金达尔赢得选举后的6个月也成功当选]。金达尔力推道德规范改革;正如一位前国会会员所评,在一个被洪灾和官司困扰的州,这算是了不起的成就了。
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