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Jindal visits Iowa

Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana governor the Washington Post calls
“the
Republican’s version of Obama,” visited Iowa last weekend.
Jindal’s Iowa trip ignited talk that the campaign for the 2012
Republican presidential  has begun:

Already, a fierce fight is looming between him and other
Republicans — former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who arrived
in Iowa a couple of days before him, and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin,
who is said to be coming at some point — for the hearts of social
conservatives.

The Post likens Governor Jindal to President-elect Obama:

Like the
president-elect, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is young (37),
accomplished (a Rhodes scholar) and, as the son of Indian
immigrants, someone familiar with breaking racial and cultural
barriers. 

[.
. .]

Jindal is, above all else, a political meteor, sharing Obama’s
precocious skills for reaching the firmament in a hurry. It was
just four years ago, after losing a gubernatorial election, that he
won election to Congress, and only this year that he became
Louisiana’s governor, the first nonwhite to hold the office since
Reconstruction. And now, 10 months into his first term, the talk of
a presidential bid is getting louder among his boosters.

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   Jindal is his own invention, in the mold of an Obama. Born in
   Louisiana as Piyush Jindal to highly educated immigrants from
   India, he decided as a young child to nickname himself “Bobby,”
   after his favorite character on the TV show “The Brady Bunch.”
   Raised as a Hindu, he converted to Catholicism while in college and
   later wrote a lengthy, intimate story that provided a window on his
   religious evolution, in a manner that fairly calls to mind Obama’s
   books about his own grappling with issues of self-identity. Success
   at Brown University and later at Oxford University during his
   Rhodes years led to high-profile attention in the power corridors
   of Louisiana and Washington.

   Around the country, Republican players have taken notice of
   Jindal:

   Steve Schmidt, the chief strategist of McCain’s failed presidential
   bid, sees Jindal as the Republican Party’s destiny.”The question is
   not whether he’ll be president, but when he’ll be president,
   because he will be elected someday.” The anti-tax crusader Grover
   Norquist believes, too, that Jindal is a certainty to occupy the
   White House, and conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh has
   described him as “the next Ronald Reagan.”

   While in Cedar Rapids, Jindal claimed he only had one political
   race on his mind, but like Obama he talks of a new politics:

   “I’m running for
   reelection to begovernor of Louisiana in 2011,” he said. “I’m not
   running for any other office.”

   [. .
   .]

   “I want to be the best
   governor I can be for the people of Louisiana. Look, I think the
   American people are tired of campaigns and politics. We need to get
   behind our new president and our new Congress, support them, and
   stop being Democrats and Republicans. We need to work together to
   make sure our government is successful.”

   Jindal might continue to be coy about it. But, with Jindal and
   Huckabee already visiting Iowa, Gallup and Zogby
   conducting preference polling on potential 2012 Republican
   presidential candidates, and a TV ad already aired, 2012 has
   begun:

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