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In the 1971 closed [[primary]], the last held for Louisiana legislative races, Blair was forced into a second primary by [[Floyd Smith]], a Pineville City Councilman and former mayor. The third-placed candidate, [[Arnold Jack Rosenthal]], elected in 1973 as the last of Alexandria's finance and utilities commissioners, backed Smith in the runoff election, but Blair, defeated Smith by some two thousand votes. It was something of a Long v. anti-Long battle in that Smith was a native of Winnfield and his mother was a Long. There was no [[Republican Party|Republican]] opposition in the [[general election]] held on February 1, 1972; so Blair secured his fourth and final term in the new single-member Senate District 29.

In the 1971 closed [[primary]], the last held for Louisiana legislative races, Blair was forced into a second primary by [[Floyd Smith]], a Pineville City Councilman and former mayor. The third-placed candidate, [[Arnold Jack Rosenthal]], elected in 1973 as the last of Alexandria's finance and utilities commissioners, backed Smith in the runoff election, but Blair, defeated Smith by some two thousand votes. It was something of a Long v. anti-Long battle in that Smith was a native of Winnfield and his mother was a Long. There was no [[Republican Party|Republican]] opposition in the [[general election]] held on February 1, 1972; so Blair secured his fourth and final term in the new single-member Senate District 29.

After a total of eighteen years in both legislative chambers, Blair was unseated in the 1975 nonpartisan blanket primary, the first held in Louisiana, by then state Representative and later Alexandria Mayor Edward Gordon "Ned" Randolph, Jr. (1942-2016) Thereafter, Blair failed in comeback attempts for his former Senate seat in 1979, 1983, 1987, and 1995. While Randolph unseated Blair, in the same election, then Democrat [[Jock Scott]] won Randolph's House seat. Randolph and Scott purported to be "new" politicians not molded to failures of the past. It was the same kind of environment which a year later enabled former [[Georgia]] [[Jimmy Carter]] to win the presidency. Randolph and Scott comanaged Carter's Rapides Parish campaign in 1976.​

After a total of eighteen years in both legislative chambers, Blair was unseated in the 1975 nonpartisan blanket primary, the first held in Louisiana, by then state Representative and later Alexandria Mayor [[Ned Randolph|Edward Gordon "Ned" Randolph, Jr.]] Thereafter, Blair failed in comeback attempts for his former Senate seat in 1979, 1983, 1987, and 1995. While Randolph unseated Blair, in the same election, then Democrat [[Jock Scott]] won Randolph's House seat. Randolph and Scott purported to be "new" politicians not molded to failures of the past. It was the same kind of environment which a year later enabled former [[Georgia]] [[Jimmy Carter]] to win the presidency. Randolph and Scott comanaged Carter's Rapides Parish campaign in 1976.​

==Four later campaigns==

==Four later campaigns==