Posted on 11/15/2014 11:55:37 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Like other remaining Democratic candidates around the country, U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu knows she must increase her support among black and white females to emerge victorious on Dec. 6. That’s why Norma Jane Sabiston, Kristin Palmer, Angele Wilson and others are again reaching out to 5,000 key women supporters statewide to build Mary’s Army, highly committed grassroots warriors who will knock doors and work phones non-stop for the next three weeks. Armed with pink t-shirts and lists of likely voters, these women clearly understand the campaign’s success rests largely on their ability to persuade voters one person at a time. Not only does the Landrieu camp need to turn out a larger number of African-American voters, they also need to convince white voters to switch from Cassidy.
Nationally prominent pollster Ron Faucheux, president of Clarus Research Group, reported yesterday that during the last four years Democrats have “somewhat improved their position among women voters.” Democrats carried women by 4 points this year, versus losing women by 1 point in the 2010 midterm elections. Exit polling shows that while white women voted Republican by a 14-point margin, African-American women voted Democrat by 83 points and Latina women voted Democrat by 34 points.
Republicans won married women by 10 points, but lost unmarried women by 22 points this year. Nationally only 51% of voters are women this year, down from 53% in 2012.
Even in Landrieu’s first campaign for the Louisiana Legislature, women played an active role, said Verna Landrieu. More than 60 of Landrieu’s women’s supporters in New Orleans turned out Tuesday to hear Campaign Manager Ryan Berni explain why their work is essential. Already women such as Tania Tetlow, Betsie Gambel, Julie Schwam Harris, Madlyn Schenk, and Deborah Langhoff have stepped up in leadership roles. They are joined by the likes of Nancy Marsiglia, Conny Willems, Dottie Reese, Susan Hess, Blanche Comiskey, Iam Tucker, Felicia Kahn, Sarah Usdin, Toni Hackett, and many more.
While Landrieu’s earlier campaign focused heavily on social issues, this campaign will probably drive home pocketbook issues. There are 600,000 women head of households in Louisiana. Gov. Bobby Jindal has a poor record of investing in education, a key issue for women voters of all ages. Women in Louisiana only earn 67 percent of what men earn. Whether female readers are doctors, lawyers, waitresses or sales reps, that 33 percent can make a big difference. What male reader would want his wife or daughter to earn 33 percent less?
As most readers recall, even though Republicans and third party groups spent $20 million to defeat her, Landrieu ran first in the primary and even met some of her voter targets. Landrieu’s exit polls show she has an “uphill battle” but can still win if she does an excellent job of turning out her vote. Even Republican media personality Jeff Crouere wrote this week that Cassidy and the Republicans should not discount Landrieu.
Kristin Palmer and staff are traveling across Louisiana to give their key women supporters in Monroe, Shreveport, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Alexandria the same rallying cry: “While you might not agree with Mary Landrieu every time, we can always count on her when we need her the most!”
Early voting begins a week from Saturday, Nov. 22, and continues until Nov. 29, excluding Thanksgiving and including Black Friday. That’s a tough week to get anyone to the polls. Let’s see how well Mary’s Army performs.
WHAT NEW CANDIDATES ARE ON THE HORIZON FOR DEMOCRATS & REPUBLICANS NATIONALLY?
We have to agree with a comment Landrieu campaign manager Ryan Berni made this week that the December runoff election is the first race in this next cycle, which includes both our statewide and legislative elections next year and the presidential election the year after. Berni said this December was a good time for Democrats and women “to take a stand.”
Nationwide, the Democrats are not presenting many new, young faces for voters to consider, according to the New York Times. Congressional Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Steny Hoyer were in elementary school the same years as Allan. VP Joe Biden was right behind them. Senator Elizabeth Warren, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Governor Martin O’Malley aren’t much younger. Democrats can point to Kirsten Gillibrand, Joaquin and Julian Castro, Mark Warner, Rahm Emanuel and Chris Van Hollen, who campaigned in Louisiana for Cedric Richmond in 2010 along with Hoyer and others.
The majority of governors are now Republicans. The R rising stars include Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, as well as those the New York Times calls “presidential wannabes” – Chris Christie, Bobby Jindal and Scott Walker. We also can’t leave out Jeb Bush who is certainly not a wannabe. With Mitch McConnell weighing in at 72 years old and John Boehner about to turn 65, it won’t be long before our own Steve Scalise climbs right to the top.
I hope Cassidy and crew does not let their guard down.
Watch out. Mary’s Army might frag her.
Bill Cassidy standing with Phil Robertson, Sarah Palin right move to motivate his base, experts say
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Now is the time for every conservative to show up at the polls and crush any hope the Democrats have of getting off the floor. A record turnout against Landrieu would be a powerful sign that this trouncing isn’t over.
So what! The November 4 election was an open primary in Louisiana, and the incumbent 3-term senator failed to get anywhere close to 50% of the vote. I don't think many fo there were 3 Republicans running and a seriously doubt any of the 14.8% of the vote for the other 2 Republicans will go to Landrieu. Republican senate candidates got a combined 55.8% of the vote on election day. In fact, I think Republicans will be highly motivated to show up for the runoff.
How’s that DemRat economy and ObarryCare working out for ya women voters?
Results as follows:
Wayne Ables (D) 0.77% 11323 "Bill" Cassidy (R) 40.97% 603048 Thomas Clements (R) 0.96% 14173 Mary L. Landrieu (D) 42.08% 619397 "Rob" Maness (R) 13.76% 202556 Brannon Lee McMorris (L) 0.89% 13034 Vallian Senegal (D) 0.26% 3835 William P. Waymire, Jr. (D) 0.32% 4673
Turnout maybe suspect as this is the only statewide race on the ballot and hunting season is
ongoing. There are two CD runoffs and the rest are judges, DAs, city/local races.
Maybe the DD/Palin efforts can help push Cassidy into the winners circle.
Bill Cassidy standing with Phil Robertson, Sarah Palin right move to motivate his base, experts say
Sarah Palin, 'Duck Dynasty' to rally in Louisiana [Maness as well for Cassidy]
From this point forward, the esteemed pudgy lily white female Senator from LA should be called Mary O’Landrieu, Princess of Obamacare.
Do not underestimate the witch and her N’Yawlins base: Welfare Queens, gays, baby-killers and Blacks. We get over confident and complacent at our own peril. She has never lost a run-off.
How’s that DemRat economy and ObarryCare working out for ya women voters?
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It’s working well for the single moms with 3 kids; all by different men. Their ObamaCare is subsidized, the kids get free breakfast and lunch at school, they get food stamps, help with rent and utilities and a monthly check. That’s why Democrats always get this demographic vote.
Well, Louisiana Republicans need to get Republicans to vote in early voting. There's no excuse not to vote in the runoff. Hunters have jobs and aren't hunting 7 days a week.
In Texas, Senator Cornyn and Attorney General Abbott combined resources to fund phone banking and GOTV for local Republican parties across the state. Not only did it help their campaigns, it helped Republicans throughout Texas. Phone banking and block walking allowed Republicans to identify Republican voters ahead of time, so that we were able to target our GOTV voters to the right people.
In Nueces county, which is majority Hispanic, Republicans swept all the races in which there was a Republican candidate (for the first time ever). We picked up the County Clerk’s office by just 625 votes out of over 55K votes cast.
Her voters will not turn out for an obscure run-off like this. They will have no idea that they should go vote for her on that day. They are not paying attention.
Corpus Christi area, that’s great.
Democrats who used to control the county commission made many of the Democrat precincts small to make oversight of Democrat precincts more difficult. I was an alternate judge on election day. Only 88 people voted where I was working, and we had 2 precincts combined at the polling place with about 2500 registered voters combined. On Padre Island there were Republican precincts that had over 100 voters the first hour and had lines all day. Nueces county spent over $1 million on the November 4 elections, and there are lots of precincts that could be combined to cut costs and make supervision and poll watching easier. In early elections, we could eliminate the number of permanent and mobile early voting precincts. We have 3 permanent precincts downtown within walking distance of each other. There are polls at CCISD headquarters, Nueces County Courthouse, and Corpus Christi City Hall. The 100 foot no electioneering limits of the CCISD and county courthouse locations overlap each other. There are lots of opportunities to cut the cost of elections without impacting the ability of registered voters to vote.
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