I looked into the Louisiana election process yesterday.
Did you know they don’t have primaries???
They skip primaries and go straight to the general, and then have a general runoff election if nobody gets over 50.
What you might end up with is Landrieu’s race being the decider, her getting under 50%, and then control of the senate not decided until weeks later in a runoff with the closest contender. Something tells me we’d crush her in a one-off runoff election
I did not know they don’t have primaries. Interesting! I think she is ripe for the picking. The Republican candidates are Bill Cassidy and Rob Maness.
Louisiana has bounced around with their ‘Jungle’ primary system. The last
change occurred in 2010 when Gov. Jindal signed a HB 292 into law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan_blanket_primary
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Landrieu has a huge war chest already at her disposal based upon the last
FEC filing.... FEC S6LA00227; 30 Sep 13; Tot $4,234,022; Dsb $985,739
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G14/LA
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Some potential candidates for both Senate and House are listed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Louisiana,_2014
Nov. 4, 2014 would the election and Dec. 6, 2014 the runoff if needed.