Poll has Terrell up by 8%/Perkins vows to support her

The (Baton Rouge) Advocate ^ | 11-16-02 | MARSHA SHULER

[KQQL]

She 's reading your book...

Look you got a fan....lol

[ambrose]

har.

[KQQL]

This stupid poll doesn't give numbers...
So she is winning by 8%...what does that mean..

[GraniteStateConservative]

No, that's all I have.

[NickFlooding]

Many of us that voted for Perkins in the primary did so in hope of sending a message that Louisiana is a strong pro-life/pro-family state and oppose the amoral democrat party. The fact that Landrieu has cut her ties to the DNC and ask them to stay out of the runoff election suggests that she has gotten that message.

Landrieu is between a rock and a hard spot. She claims that she supports W but that doesn't wash with most of her base in Orleans Parish. If she runs back to her base she will loose the rest of the state with the exception of the union workers in the river parish chemical plants which vote the way they are told to.

Her only hope is an endorsement by Governor Foster. I doubt that will happen. My guess is that Foster has taken all the heat he wants by not endorsing Terrell. The only well liked politician in the state supporting her is Senator Breaux and I doubt he would be there if it weren't necessary to stay in good graces with his party and shore up his own liberal support.

Landrieu has other problems as well. 1. Terrell is also from Orleans Parish and will get most of the moderate vote from there. 2. The scare tactics she used on seniors failed to work in the primary due to more and more baby boomers reaching senior status. The new seniors are more sophisticated and wish they could have invested even a minute percentage of their government mandated FICA taxes in the bond market over the years. 3. The middle income wage earners in this state want to live long enough to see the recently passed tax cuts while Landrieu wants to eliminate them. 4. Landrieu is wed to the Democrats position of no education vouchers but many Louisiana Catholics choose parochial schooling meaning they have to pay public taxes plus private tuition and those that don't chose Parochial schools would if they could afford it. 5. Landrieu wants the government to fund abortions and Louisiana is pro-life. Even those few that want abortion on demand don't want to pay for someone else's promiscuity. 6. The Orleans political machine is now in disrepair with Morial out of the mayor's chair and Connick out of the DA's office. 7. Landrieu failed to support Cleo Fields run for governor and that has East Baton Rouge blacks upset with her.

The deck is stacked against Landrieu and she is the one that stacked it. If we can get out the conservative vote as was done in the primary Terrell will win. A good heavy drenching rain in Orleans Parish will help too as Orleans voters tend to stay away from the polls on cold rainy days.

[The Old Hoosier]

There's some kind of controversy because her name appeared somewhere in connection with a Planned Parenthood fundraiser. But she insists she is pro-life and says they had no permission to use her name. It became an issue during the campaign.

[drstevej]

I will be at the polls early to vote for Terrell rain or shine.

The opportunity to vote against Landrieu twice is greatly appreciated.

[GoMonster]

I will call fox news steve ducy to work on the rain! : )

[WFTR]

Terrell, a moderate Republican, said she agreed with Perkins that the state Republican Party needs to be "a very inclusive party that doesn't take people for granted, that will welcome the social conservatives into the party as active players."

Mrs. Terrell isn't a moderate. If you look at her positions on the issues, she is a solid conservative. As a city council member in New Orleans, I'm sure she had to work with so many liberals that she may have seemed moderate, but the positions that she's bringing into this race are solidly conservative. On many issues, I'm as much a Bob Smith/Alan Keyes/Pat Buchanan conservative as anyone, and I almost switched to her campaign. She is also a very personable campaigner who people will like when they meet. I hope her appeal to moderates will be in persuading them to become more conservative or showing them how conservative they really are.

WFTR
Bill

[KQQL]

If the December run-off were held today, Suzie Terrell would garner 48% of the vote and Senator Landrieu would receive 40%

[Coop]

Over the last week, Perkins said, he's received "almost as many phone calls as I received votes" in the Nov. 5 election.

Funny line!

[Coop]

Where did you get those numbers?

[GraniteStateConservative]

Yeah, I like Perkins. He'll probably run for Governor next year.

[BlackRazor]

Where did you get those numbers?

More details are here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/790768/posts

[Coop]

Yeah, I like Perkins. He'll probably run for Governor next year.

I did notice that mention of his interest in a statewide office next year. :-) Probably explains why he's being a team player right now.

[Coop]

Thank you kindly

[JohnnyZ]

Most of the endorsements to be made have now been made. Cleo Fields has thrown his support behind Landrieu (though he said he has nothing bad to say about Terrell) and said he'll work for her reelection, although two other black legislators are still balking. The Sugar industry folks endorsed Landrieu but said they had nothing against Terrell.

(Apparently the only folks who don't like Suzie Terrell are NARAL and John Cooksey.)

On the other side, Terrell now has the support of Gov. Foster and the aforementioned Perkins, and of course the national GOP.

If the race is really a tossup or a Terrell lead at this point, things should be looking good with Dubya rolling into town two days before the election (that's an estimate -- any word on when he'll come down?) Of course a lot depends on GOTV, but I think Terrell has better odds than Landrieu, which is pretty amazing considering Landrieu's relatively moderate incumbency.

[Coop]

Nope, no word on the President will go down there, although I did read today he is planning to visit. And I did see for the first time that Rudy Giuliani will also be paying a visit to Ms. Terrell. :-)

[JohnnyZ]

I just vote on a poll at hillnews.com (the congressional newspaper) which asked whether Landrieu would keep her seat. 88% said she would lose! 48% of the respondents identified themselves as R's, 40% 'Rats.

Perhaps it gives an indication that the buzz is going against Little Mary?