ABC: After 2014 Losses, Its Democrat Vs. Democrat
ABC: After 2014 Losses, It #39;s Democrat Vs. Democrat
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One new Democrat sworn into Ind. General Assembly
Republicans are preparing to enter a new legislative session with historic majorities in the House and Senate.
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Tammy Bruce: Demise of the Southern Democrat 12-6-14
Tammy Bruce on Fox News ANHQ as we wait for Mary Landrieu to lose her senate seat -- is this the demise of the Southern Democrat?
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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -
Sen. Mary Landrieu grew hoarse on the campaign trail Saturday.
The Louisiana Democrat had been shouting all week, rallying her supporters at campaign events up and down the state, fighting to hold off a challenge from Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy to the bitter end.
"The national race is over, but honey, our race is not over" she cried at a campaign rally on the eve of the runoff election.
But there was every indication that nobody's listening.
Saturday morning, when she arrives to vote, only four cameras are there to capture the moment, compared with what one staffer described as a gaggle 50-strong during the November 4 vote.
Landrieu has trailed in every public poll of the race. Most recently, in a poll out this week from Republican firm WPA Research, she was down by 24 points. Early voting among African-Americans, a voting bloc key to her chances for a win, was down, but Republican early voting was up.
With Republicans locking down control of the Senate in the November elections, Louisiana lost some of its urgency for national Democrats. The National Democratic Senatorial Committee withdrew its investment early on in the runoff and left her to fend for herself, as did most of the major Democratic spending groups.
The lopsided fight frustrates Landrieu, who on Friday, unprompted, chastised the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for having "abandoned us."
"I just don't believe in leaving a soldier on the field, and that's what they did," she says.
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Louisiana Democrat said she feels abandoned
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Bill Cassidy, a doctor and Republican congressman, defeated three-term Sen. Mary L. Landrieu in a runoff election Saturday, sending home the last Deep South Democrat in the U.S. Senate, according to the Associated Press.
Even though Landrieu narrowly edged out Cassidy in a multicandidate primary in November, Cassidy's victory in the runoff was widely expected: A second conservative candidate with a significant following, Rob Maness, ran a strong third in the primary vote and subsequently endorsed Cassidy.
More generally, the political terrain for a moderate Democrat like Landrieu has become increasingly challenging in Louisiana. White Democratic voters have continued their defection to the Republican Party, and roughly 125,000 reliably Democratic voters -- many of them African-Americans -- were permanently displaced from the state by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Cassidy, 57, is an associate professor of medicine at Louisiana State University who entered the House of Representatives in 2009. With his election, the Republican Party picked up nine Senate seats in the midterm elections, giving it a total of 54 senators when the 114th Congress convenes in January.
Cassidy closely followed the Republicans' strategy this year of nationalizing congressional elections. His campaign and outside groups supporting him regularly noted that Landrieu had voted with Obama 97 percent of the time.
Louisiana regularly ranks as one of the poorest and unhealthiest states in the country, but Cassidy's biography allowed him to preemptively combat any suggestion that he was insensitive to the needs of the poor.
According to his congressional website, he treated uninsured patients at the public Earl K. Long Hospital in Baton Rouge for two decades, founded a community health care clinic, and in 2005 set up an emergency medical facility for Katrina evacuees in an abandoned Kmart.
In the House, Republicans will hold at least 246 seats come January, according to election results Saturday, giving the GOP a commanding majority that matches the party's post-World War II high during Democratic President Harry S. Truman's administration.
The GOP retained control of two seats in runoffs in Louisiana, expanding the advantage for Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who can afford defections from his increasingly conservative caucus and still get legislation passed. Combined with the Republican takeover of the Senate, Congress will be all-GOP for the final two years of President Barack Obama's second term.
The latest count gives the GOP a 246-188 majority. One race, in Arizona, is still outstanding.
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Democrat Landrieu is defeated in Louisiana Senate runoff