I hope Jefferson is out……..

Voters trickled into the polls on a chilly Saturday morning for a runoff to determine the fate of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, whose long tenure was threatened by a federal bribery investigation.

Jefferson’s seat is one of the nation’s last unresolved midterm races, and the eight-term congressman was in danger of becoming the only Democratic incumbent to lose.

There were more poll workers than voters when Jefferson, Louisiana’s only black congressman since Reconstruction, arrived at his polling place with his wife and two daughters.

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