Posted on 11/26/2013 4:45:13 PM PST by Libloather
A poll about the fortunes of Louisiana U.S. Senate candidates next year and gubernatorial candidates the year after provided excellent news for Republicans in federal office and highlighted the continually deteriorating position of Democrats in the state.
Among other things, the recent survey by Southern Media and Opinion Research looked at answers for likely voters for the offices of senator and governor. For the Senate seat currently held by Sen. Mary Landrieu, she led U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy 41-34 percent, with another Republican challenger recent state arrival Rob Maness at 10 percent.
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A dose of Husseincare should cure that.
I hope the Republican candidate isn’t a jerk.
sadly, it’s roughly a year out. A poll now is worthless.
Cassidy is a RINO.
Well, the guy DD was backing won, so that could signal some momentum... it makes me sad my sister state is essentially red but has RATS running the place.
They've revealed the Dem game plan, we just need to figure out how to beat it.
"War on women, fund a libertarian to bleed R votes"
In Louisiana, graft and corruption go a long, long way. Mary Landrieu has that market cornered. She is also remarkably popular among the dead, who cannot be reached by these polls.
What’s wrong with Jindal?
Did I mention Jindal? The Democrats are still very strong in South Louisiana, though many of their live voters left for Houston after Katrina.
The GOP needs to get out in front of the ‘War on Women’ as nothing but a SCARE TACTIC because those signs and placards are about to pop up all over the place and in the media.
“The Democrats are still very strong in South Louisiana”
Only 9 of 64 parishes are democrat and only 2 of those are considered to be in the southern part of the state.
Of course one of those parishes is Orleans.
Maness is supposed to be the conservative in the race. I don’t know what kind of chance he’s got.
A weak LandrO doesn’t matter.
What matters is the democrat ground game getting out their vote on election day.
If the GOP has no answer, Baby Fat will be re-elected.
A year from now it is going to be even worse for the Democrats, this is a trend that won’t be reversed.
You are running under the assumption that the GOPe wants to beat them.
David Vitter is running for Governor (he converted his campaign site to a gubernatorial-campaign site): http://www.davidvitter.com/
Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne already announced a gubernatorial bid (and state senator Elbert Guillory–the black conservative who switched from Republican to Democrat to get elected to the state senate from a black-majority district and very publicly switched back to the GOP last year–already announced for Lt. Gov.). I don’t think that Vitter will clear the field, and given LA’s “jungle primary” system that could result in two Republicans going on to the general, Dardenne may think that he can beat Vitter in a one-on-one general election.
If Vitter wins, he’ll appoint his replacement in the Senate. Jindal?
An article on Vitter’s gubernatorial run is up:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3113960/posts
I understand Cassidy is a former liberal Democrat, but that is before he became a state senator, then a U.S. rep. I do think Cassidy lacks the mass appeal required to upset Landrieu, who will remain the favorite of the uninformed.
Maness was born in WA State; that hurts; he is also unknown in LA.
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