[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

Republicans have also fielded a candidate to take on first termer Rodney Alexander in LA-05, an Alexandria Republican named Jock Scott. I hear the national Republicans are taking this race seriously and will pump in money so Scott is competitive.

I'd like to see some progress in LA-07, Chris John's open seat. David Thibodaux is polling behind two Democrats for third place, but the Republican who is securing the major endorsements and who has the most cash of all the candidates, Charles Boustany, is stuck at 7%, way behind everyone else.

As far as the senate race goes, who knows. Chris John is currenly not a lock for the second place in the runoff, and he's spent the past few weeks sniping at Vitter over every issue from coastal restoration to homeland security. Frankly, he's acting like a bit of a snot.

And oh yes, Chris John still has not explained his vote against the House amendment to kill U.S. funding for UN observance of our presidential election, which brings me to this:



I'm keeping track of this and the LA senate race on Vitter Blog.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"David Thibodaux is polling behind two Democrats for third place"

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It's still early. I hope Thibodeaux doesn't get cheated out of the run-off like he was in 1996.

The most interesting scenarios in both the 7th CD and in the Senate race would occur if the white moderates split the white Democrat vote and allow a black liberal to sneak into the run-off against a Republican. I think this is a possibility in the Senate race, as I've written before (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095343/posts?page=4#4 ), although less likely in the 7th CD race, since the district's black population isn't all that high. But hopefully Vitter can get 50% on election day and forgo a run-off.

[Impy]

I'm curious, do you know if there would be a runnoff for the state's electoral votes if no candidate wins a majority of the vote?