"This senator won her election by basicaly lying about how she would vote on judges that were being fillibustered."
No. Landrieu won her election when Jesse Jackson and a few other black "leaders" were notified on the day of the special election that she was behind, and mobilized the large Black vote in New orleans and surrounding areas to get out to the polls by any means necessary, and get her elected. As usual, the Republicans stood by and watched the fraud and illegalities happen without doing a thing about it.
Slick willie made numerous threatening phone calls around the state of Louisiana to get the vote out, or at least get the votes into the machines.