Mitch Landrieu
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Gov. Mitch Landrieu, the most politically polished of the lot, a veteran state legislator and the son of a former mayor and brother of a United States senator. Two of these three candidates are all but certain to meet in a May runoff, the field of 22 is testimony to post hurricane civic activism, but the other 19 are given little chance, and Mr. Landrieu thinks he will be one of them, precisely because of his biracial appeal. Mr. Landrieu, who is white, said in an interview last weekend said that he is the only candidate that has African-American and white support, in equal numbers, before castigating his two major opponents for representing narrower segments of the electorate.