Why vote for Landrieu and no clout, when Cassidy can have clout in the new Senate? Louisiana voters are not stupid when it comes to clout.
How does it feel, Mary, to be thrown under the bus by your party? Do you really want to throw away your own money to try to win this run-off?
Bingo. The drama of the first election — that Landrieu was needed to balance the Republican wave — is gone.
How many Democrat voters will simply stay home, correctly concluding that their runoff vote is a waste of time? A third? Half? That 54-42 he gets from assuming everybody will vote the same way in the runoff will be more like 60-something to 30-something.