Louisiana treasurer announces Landrieu challenge (leads in recent poll)

The Hill ^ | November 29, 2007 | Ian Swanson

[SomeCallMeTim]

MANY Conservatives in Louisiana have remained in the Democrat Party for FAR too long... Don’t be afraid of party switchers in this state. Pay attention to each candidates track record, and public positions...

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

This is how Landrieu beat Woody Jenkins for her first term, and how she beat Terral for her second term.

A good deal of Republican division also helped her. In 1996, the GOP vote beat out the Dem vote in the open primary, but it didn't all coalesce around Woody Jenkins, who also had to contend with Bob Dole pulling in a meager 40% of the vote in LA when he was on the ballot. In 2002, we had the same problem, GOP majority vote in open primary, but failed in the runoff. That'll be different now because Louisiana now has closed party primaries for federal elections, meaning Kennedy will be the likely nominee, and stands to benefit if Republicans carry Louisiana again, as they seem likely to.

[Non-Sequitur]

We should pick up SD too

We should, but the GOP is so worried about appearing to gang up on Tim Johnson that they won't run the kind of campaign they need to in order to win.