[no dems]

Yea, but remember two things: 1) This is a run-off election which traditionally means low turn-out and 2) The election is on a Saturday. Conservatives will turn out while the New Orleans welfare queens and absentee fathers whose bastard children are being supported by the taxpayers are sleeping off their Friday night drunk or laying up in a crack house. New Orleans "voters" are not a threat in this election.

[Theodore R.]

Actually, this is not technically "a runoff," but the senatorial and congressional general election under LA's unique "jungle primary" law. Most LA elections ARE held on Saturday. The only exception to the LA Saturday election is the presidential general election and congressional primaries held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday ever other November. People mistakenly call this Dec. 7 election a "runoff," including candidates Landrieu and Terrell themselves. It is "the" general election in LA. All of this is according to the 1975 law (modified later by the U.S. Justice Department) pushed by then popular LA Democrat Governor Edwin Washington Edwards. LA gubernatorial and legislative elections (both primary and general election) are held on Saturday. So Saturday is the customary election day in LA. The Longs encouraged Saturday elections to get the same kinds of voters to the polls that you are now thinking might not bother to show up.