Edwin Edwards
... Edwin Edwards believes he would surely trounce the two candidates vying for the governorship. "If I had run for governor with the group that is running today, I would have ended up winning," Edwards said, brandishing his trademark confidence in an interview with CBS News that aired Thursday. ... Kathleen Blanco, declined to comment on Edwards remarks. But 12 years after Louisiana voters put him into a runoff with former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, Edwards noted that a woman and an Indian-American man in this years gubernatorial runoff is "a testimony to the diversity of thinking in the state.