Posted on 11/02/2014 1:33:59 PM PST by Bogey78O
In a three way contest, incumbent Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu gets 44 percent, while Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy gets 36 percent and Tea Party ally Rob Maness gets 15 percent.
In head-to-head matchups pitting Landrieu against either GOP candidate, both Cassidy and Maness receive 50 percent support, while Landrieu performs almost identically against either Republican – at 45 and 46 percent, respectively.
Partly because he’s less well known in the state, Cassidy enjoys a better favorable rating (45 percent favorable/ 41 percent unfavorable) than Landrieu (44 percent favorable / 50 percent unfavorable). Landrieu was first elected in 1996 and has survived two competitive elections since.
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it’s going to rain liberal money in LA (and GA, for that matter) for the runoff. even if the senate is decided, and it probably will be. anything could happen.
insulting the residents will help
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There are eight candidates on the ballot for senator, four democrats, three republicans
and a libertarian. Do you think the lesser knowns will pull much support? I assume
that Maness will be 3rd based upon polling.
I don’t think so. If the senate goes GOP on Tuesday, the dem’s won’t waste money on runoff races that would make no difference.
Cassidy isn’t a RINO. Here’s my in-person interview with him last March.
Cassidy: “Landrieu Supports (Obama’s) Agenda 97% of the Time”
By Walter Abbott - 3/7/14
“Barak Obama’s agenda has been awful for the American Family… and Senator Landrieu supports that agenda 97% of the time,” Congressman Bill Cassidy (LA 06) told Lincoln Parish News Online (LPNO) in an interview earlier today in Ruston. That remark was in response to the question of why he is running for for the U. S. Senate, and against incumbent Mary Landrieu.
Cassidy said that agenda has hurt Americans because it has “taken (away) their choice of healthcare,” and is “hurting their ability to get a good job with good benefits.” He added, “If she wins, the Senate continues to be a rubber stamp for this agenda that’s hurting the American Family.”
Cassidy said he is best positioned in the state to beat her, and feels duty bound to try.
Said Cassidy, “I’ll give up my congressional seat – that’s the risk you take – the greater goal is I am not going to be passive as this president and this senator who supports him 97% of the time, I think does things which are incredibly harmful.”
Cassidy, 57, came to Louisiana from Illinois at ten months of age, when his father went to work in one of the petrochemical plants along the Mississippi River south of Baton Rouge. He graduated from Baton Rouge’s Tara High School, and got his medical degree from Louisiana State University (LSU) Medical School.
He was first elected to the Louisiana State Senate in 2006, and won his Baton Rouge-based congressional seat in 2008.
Cassidy credits his love of the state and interest in politics from reading at an early age A. J. Liebling’s book, The Earl of Louisiana. That book chronicled Louisiana Governor Earl Long’s final years in Louisiana politics.
Asked why he entered politics later in life, Cassidy says he often counsels young people who want to be involved in politics to “have a life first.”
Said Cassidy, “People will respect you more, and your judgements will be sounder if you’ve actually had to live under the laws that others have passed, and you’ve actually had to make a living and make decisions.”
Landrieu has held public office continuously since 1979.
Cassidy acknowledged Landrieu’s support in the past from some in Louisiana’s business community because of government “earmarks.”
Said Cassidy, “Senator Landrieu is related to people by blood, marriage, and government contracts.”
But Cassidy thinks that since the earmark process has been significantly curtailed since 2010, her ability to garner support from that practice will be also diminished.
Qualifying for the Tuesday, November 4 election is August 20-22, Early voting will be from October 21 to October 28.
The difference between, say, 47 votes and 48 votes is pretty huge. or 46 votes and 47 votes.
whatever the case, they won’t give up. they think we’re evil, racist, sexist monsters. you don’t give those people a pass.
Last time she ran, they set up polling places in Atlanta for Katrina victims to vote in Lousiana elections. They’re not doing that this year.
I agree with you there. My assumption is if the GOP manages to win 50 seats outright on Tuesday. If Louisiana (or Georgia) is the tiebreaker in the December runoff, money will flow like water.
Clearly what is needed are more insults/s
Heritage Action Scorecard @ 59%
Conservative Review Scorecard @ 61%
And
Cassidy Defends Liberal Record
We now have the first signs of a competitive contest developing in Louisiana between U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and retired Air Force Col. Rob Maness (R-LA). In a story published by the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Cassidy defends his liberal record and shows why he is not the ideal candidate to challenge Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu.
Here's the exchange between the Maness and Cassidy camps:
[Maness's] campaign staff was asked why Maness considers Cassidy insufficiently conservative. They replied with recent comments from the Senate Conservative Fund that criticized Cassidy, a physician, for a "dismal 63 percent conservative rating from the Heritage Action for America and his votes to increase the debt limit, bail out the federal highway system and his failure to cut off funding for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare."
Joel DiGrado, Cassidy's campaign manager replied:
"Apparently Rob Maness believes that his own Congressman, Steve Scalise, as well as Rep. John Fleming and U.S. Senator David Vitter are not fit to represent Louisiana either. All three voted with Dr. Cassidy in supporting the Vitter-authored Highway Bill, which included the Restore Act language that the entire Louisiana delegation fought together to pass. Scalise and Fleming are in double trouble with Rob Maness as they didn't pass another one of his litmus tests when they joined Bill in supporting the No Budget, No Pay requirements for Congress." That bill included the debt limit extension.
Cassidy's response is disappointing for several reasons.
1) Cassidy is hiding behind other members of the delegation rather than standing on his own two feet. This approach won't work in defeating Mary Landrieu. His name is on the ballot, not Scalise, Fleming, or Vitter.
2) Cassidy is running as a Washington insider, defending the highway policies passed by Congress. Most voters don't trust Washington, and for good reason. The federal highway program, like most everything in Washington, is a complete failure. It should be devolved to the states so they can keep more of their money and escape all of the federal regulations that increase the cost of building roads. Cassidy's message on this issue isn't just liberal, it's also not going to help him defeat Mary Landrieu. If the question put to voters is which candidate has more power to pass laws in Washington and bring home the bacon, Mary Landrieu will likely win. The question needs to be: which candidate will fight the hardest to reduce power in Washington. That's a fight Senator Landrieu will most certainly lose.
3) Cassidy's continued support for suspending the debt limit is remarkable. Rather than simply acknowledging that it was a tough call and saying that he respects the views of those who oppose it, his spokesman attempts to justify the vote by pointing to the "No Budget, No Pay" requirement that was used by House leadership to justify the vote. This is regrettable. The budget resolution is a non-binding blueprint that Congress routinely ignores and many times these budgets call for higher taxes and more spending. In fact, it's likely that if the House-passed budget resolution goes to a conference committee with the Senate, it will be used to raise the debt limit again. Thanks, but no thanks Bill Cassidy. The "No Budget, No Pay" provision does not justify Cassidy's vote for a higher debt limit, and the fact that he's using it as a shield shows that he's part of the problem in Washington.
The Senate Conservatives Fund has not endorsed a candidate in the Louisiana Senate race at this time, but we definitely won't support Bill Cassidy. His record is too liberal and he's going to have a difficult time giving voters a compelling reason to support him over Mary Landrieu. They're both Washington insiders who like big government policies.
I’d love it if they both outpolled her on Tuesday.
I'm voting for the human. Maness
Have you met either of them in person?
Seriously people, Cassidy is good enough. Maness needs to drop out so that this thing never even goes to a runoff. Why give the Dems a chance to pour millions into the state and possibly keep it?
“I don’t think so. If the senate goes GOP on Tuesday, the dem’s won’t waste money on runoff races that would make no difference.”
Not sure I agree. With Senators getting 6 year terms, electing any RAT makes re-taking the Senate easier. In 2016, about twice as many Republicans are standing for re-election as RATs. in 2018, it’s the reverse. To the extent that the GOP can build its membership this year, it’s harder for the RATs to retake the Senate in two years. It must be a GOP goal to do everything it can to shore up their membership in the Senate. These old bastards that they are running for re-election pose a problem if they die, or retire before fulfilling their complete terms.. Cochran, Roberts and McConnell should have been replaced not re-elected.
Good question. Maness seems a good conservative but so does Cassidy. Maness isnot going to win. He should follow the lead of Dr Milton Wolf and get this thing over with Tuesday.
Well...supposedly.
Big Govt is Big Govt!
It makes so little difference on the suffix letter! Cassidy is Big Govt.
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