Posted on 12/05/2014 7:18:24 AM PST by NKP_Vet
HAMMOND, La.—Mary Landrieu is dead, and everyone knows it but Mary Landrieu.
The senior senator from Louisiana, a diminutive blond woman with a round, youthful face, is standing under a green canopy in the middle of an airfield. The canopy reads, "City of Hammond, Too Lovely to Litter." There is frustration in her voice as she repeats, yet again, the message nobody seems to be hearing. "The national race is over," she says. "This race is clearly now about what's in Louisiana's best interest."
Landrieu's death was foretold on November 4, when any remaining hope Democrats might have had that their candidates' individual qualities could overcome voters' hostility to the president was washed away in a national Republican wave of unexpected proportions. Though Landrieu was also on the ballot that day, thanks to Louisiana's quirky election laws, it was only the first round—an all-parties primary featuring four Democrats, three Republicans, and a Libertarian. Landrieu got 42 percent of the vote; Bill Cassidy, a physician and Republican congressman, got 41 percent. Now the two of them are pitted head-to-head in a runoff election Saturday.
It is the last Senate contest of 2014 to be decided, a lingering loose end, a hangnail of an election that—now that Republicans have already won the Senate majority—will affect practically no one, except Mary Landrieu and her constituents.
Since the primary, Landrieu has undergone a series of humiliations. First, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee announced it would not spend any money supporting her in the runoff. Landrieu's campaign was already practically broke, and in the weeks following the primary more than 90 percent of the television ads Louisiana voters saw were from Cassidy or groups supporting him.
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california should be divided—cut in half at Santa Maria. South California is ready to go GOP-—Its the North that wants liberalism. South California could join Texas, and the southwest for a west coast port — of the New CSA (Constutional States of America).
He won’t win as a Democrat!
He won’t win as a Democrat!
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Why not? He’s won every other Election as a DemocRAT. WV is full of Dems.
:o)
That topic has been hashed out as even before the dawn of computers. Ain't gonna happen. California has 55 electoral votes. Delaware has three. I seriously doubt if the Golden State is going to give up its numerical clout. Why would it?
Have you thought ahead to a new American flag that move would entail? :o)
Barf.
The “barf” referred to the photos with Obama and Clinton. Barf again.
You had better check the last election, the entire State went GOP!
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