Roll Call Looks at the Senate races
Republicans See Senate Runoff for Landrieu
Seeking to add fuel to the talk of a runoff in Louisiana's Senate race, nationalRepublicans released polling Friday that showed Sen. MaryLandrieu (D) drawing less than 50 percent of the vote when matched against a trio of Republican challengers.Landrieu took 46 percent to 13 percent for Rep. JohnCooksey; State Elections Commissioner Suzanne Haik Terrell received 10 percent, and state Rep. Tony Perkins garnered 6 percent.The poll was done byVoter/Consumer Research on July 29 and 30 for the NationalRepublicanSenatorial Committee. Five hundred registered voters were tested with a 4.5 percent margin of error.
Under Louisiana election law, all candidates run in an open primary onNov. 5.If no candidate receives 50 percent of the vote, the two top votegetters regardless of party advance to a Dec. 7 runoff.
In potential runoff matchups, Terrell ran the strongest againstLandrieu, trailing the incumbent 51 percent to 38 percent.
The Republicans must be smoking what the libertarians want legalized to believe that tripe.
Landrieu will have a cake walk in November.