Bobby Jindal Announces Run for President

NYTimes.com:

Gov. Bobby Jindal, who became Louisiana’s first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction but whose popularity has plummeted as the state struggled with a $1.6 billion shortfall, announced on Wednesday that he is running for president in 2016.

Mr. Jindal, 44, who became the nation’s first Indian-American governor when he took office in 2008, joins the crowded field of Republican contenders in what even his supporters call a long-shot candidacy in which he faces several disadvantages.

“My name is Bobby Jindal,” he told a cheering crowd outside New Orleans. “I am running for president of the greatest country in the world - the United States of America.”

Mr. Jindal has kept a low profile on the national stage compared with Jeb Bush, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and other Republican candidates and likely candidates being closely watched by analysts and the news media. And his poll numbers have fallen sharply in his home state as he nears the end of his eight-year tenure, amid criticism that he has been more focused on laying the groundwork for a presidential run than on Louisiana’s fiscal troubles.

Jindal certainly has the credentials to run, but too many candidates running for GOP ticket could hurt him as it'll even be more of a struggle for him to stand out from the rest of the field.

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