[GraniteStateConservative]

poll ping!

[No dems 2002]

Well, thank the Lord. I hope this is true. The more I watch this, the more I believe that Terrell will win.

But a message to the Louisiana GOP: Don't be overconfident. You need to win not only this Senate seat, but also the open US House seat.

My prayers are for a Terrell victory. Landrieu is a fraud. She stands for nothing significantly good, and should be voted out.

[IMRight]

Could there be something wrong with this poll? I can't believe that 41% of registered Democrats are supporting the republican that didn't even get 40% of the voters in the first ballot.

[drstevej]

***Among registered Republican voters, Terrell acquires 73% of the vote compared to 16% for Landrieu. With registered Democrats Landrieu nets 51% with Terrell receiving 42% of the vote. ***

If this is true, Landrieu is in deep dieu dieu!

[drstevej]

OBSERVATION: This election may not mean the difference in which party is in the majority this year; but Terrell will serve 6 years. Her election in 2002 makes holding the Senate in 2004 and 2006 elections easier. And with a close Senate in the balance, this is essential -- especially with RINOs and McCain around.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I wish those poll results are true, but this sounds WAY too overconfident. I can't believe for a moment that many Dems are going for Terrell !

[BlackRazor]

Poll Ping!

This is a partisan poll, so it probably overstates Terrell's position a bit. Even so, unless it is wildly inaccurate, it looks like good news.

If you want on or off my poll ping list, let me know!

[patriciaruth]

When you're only up one run in the 8th inning, it isn't a good idea to spend a lot of time gloating.

The Louisiana run-off is in December, and I am asking for support for our last "man" at bat, Suzanne Haik Terrell.

Suzanne Haik Terrell, graduate of Loyola University Law School, former New Orleans City Council member, first Republican woman to hold statewide office (as Elections Commissioner.) Since taking office in 2000 she has achieved many of her goals, cutting the bloated Department's budget by canceling contracts, streamlining operations, and downsizing the Department's spending practices and personnel.

"We will never create a culture in this country that honors life until we have a pro-life woman making the case every day from the Senate floor. Today there are no pro-life women in the Senate. That must change. Louisiana can change it."--Suzanne Haik Terrell

Please send a contribution by credit card on-line or mail a check if you cannot personally volunteer time.

Link to www.suzieterrell.com

Suzanne Haik Terrell for U.S. Senate Campaign
P.O. Box 44267
Baton Rouge, LA 70806

Volunteers can contact campaign headquarters in Baton Rouge at
6554 Florida Blvd., Rm 242
(225)218-8683

[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.

[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