NEW ORLEANS - Politics competed for attention with Carnival parades and Super Bowl party preparations Saturday as New Orleans voters made their choice to succeed Mayor Ray Nagin.
Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, who lost to Nagin in a runoff four years ago, was widely seen as the front-runner in an 11-candidate field. Were he to win an outright majority, he would become the majority black city's first white mayor since his father, Moon Landrieu, left the post in 1979. But other candidates, vying for second place, were hoping to deny him a majority and force a March 6 runoff.
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