Landrieu's lead in Louisiana

[brooklynite]

Source: PPP

PPP's newest Louisiana poll finds that Mary Landrieu's held her own over the last six months. She leads her main Republican opponent, Bill Cassidy, by a 50/40 margin. That's the exact same thing we found when we last looked at the state in February. Landrieu's approval spread at 46/43 is also little different from 47/45 the last time around.

The key for Landrieu is that she still has a fair amount of crossover support from Republicans. 23% of them approve of her and 23% also support her in a hypothetical match up against Cassidy. That's a lot more support than you see most Democrats managing across party lines these days, particularly in the south.

It's important to note that this 10 point lead for Landrieu is not likely to hold up. 78% of the undecided voters in the race disapprove of President Obama so they're likely to end up in the Republican column, but at this point Cassidy has only 51% name recognition so the undecideds skew conservative. If their Senate votes ended up being a referendum on the President Landrieu's margin would be tighter at 52/48.

Cassidy does look like the overwhelming Republican favorite to move forward in this race. In a four way primary Landrieu gets 47% with him at 20%, Elbert Guillory at 6%, and Rob Maness at 2%. In a three way contest Landrieu's at 48% to 24% for Cassidy and 5% for Maness. Neither of the other Republican candidates appear to be particularly great threats to Cassidy's prospects for getting into a runoff.



Read more: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/08/landrieus-lead-in-louisiana.html

[demosincebirth]

1. She has been walking a very tight rope for a Dem senator from La. Many dems lambast her, but

I'd rather have her than a knuckle dragging republican.

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Landrieu IS a knuckle-dragging republican, she just calls herself a Democrat!

She's the most useless Dem in the Senate and she's the reason I stopped giving (when I could afford to) to the DNC and started donating directly to Dem candidates - I didn't want her to benefit by one thin PENNY from any donation of mine.

[brooklynite]

3. She was one of the courageous votes for the gun bill...

...but I guess if you can't get 100% of what you want, 0% is a better choice.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. She is one of several Dems that I will never forgive for holding their ACA vote

hostage to get more pork for their homestates.

[juajen]

6. So, I live in Louisiana. What pork did the state get?

[TheDebbieDee]

11. The offer of pork was retracted after Landrieu and the rest of the Senate

voted to approve ACA and there were the first charges that the ACA was one of those backroom deals. But the fact that she held her vote hostage to get the offer of pork galls me to this day.

She wasn't the only Democrat that held her vote hostage, though. There was another Dem Senator, I think Nelson (from Nebraska?), that did the same thing. The offer of pork in exchange for his vote was retracted after the vote as well.

[demosincebirth]

5. We all lambast her, but truthfully, her or a tea bagger?

[TheDebbieDee]

12. If she can't be depended on to vote for Democratic-sponsored legislation

without sweetening her pot, then she is only a few steps removed from being a teabagger.

[demosincebirth]

13. That does not answer my question, madame

[TheDebbieDee]

16. I thought I was quite clear - Landrieu is only slightly better than a teabagger.

And that's setting the bar pretty damn low............

[Recursion]

14. This argument gets dumber every time I read it

Seriously, this is stupid.

Someone who votes with us for leadership only and then on nothing else is infinitely better than someone who votes against us on leadership and still votes against us on everything else.

[TheDebbieDee]

15. Then stop reading this argument!

Seriously, no one is forcing you to participate in this argument. Landreiu is not infinitely better than a teabagger - she's just one rung above a teabagger as far as I'm concerned.

[JI7]

8. she helps keep control of Senate away from Republicans

[kelliekat44]

9. Yes, she is. And this is one way the GOP keeps it's hold social safety net. She calls herself a

Dem but she really is a Republican. Dems ought to plant more of these kind of people on the GOP ballot.

[joshcryer]

10. That's My Congress puts her in the middle.

http://thatsmycongress.com/senate/index.html

Note: scores here go negative. That's My Congress is a liberal website, even Warren is considered "somewhat liberal" by the site because they take cosponsering liberal bills very seriously.

[stevenleser]

17. All you have to do is compare her score to Vitter's here to see how much we benefit by having her

in the senate http://thatsmycongress.com/senate/index.html

We would get a Repug like Vitter to replace her if she wasn't around. Vitter is rated the most Conservative member of the senate.

[freshwest]

7. +1

[locks]

18. Just hope we can keep her in

There are many good Dems in New Orleans but they know if Landrieu is voted out her successor will be to the right of Genghis Khan just like Vitter. Anybody from Louisiana who has ever had the courage to vote with the Democrats most of the time deserves our support.