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* New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin won reelection in a narrow victory against Louisiana lieutenant governor Mitch Landrieu. Nagin, who is black, took only 6 percent of the white vote in the election's first round in April, but boosted that share to a lifesaving 20 percent in the runoff, in part because of the endorsement of Republican Rob Couhig, who preferred him, after Couhig's own candidacy fell short, to Landrieu, scion of a liberal Democratic Louisiana dynasty. So much for politics with a small "p." In the ...