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Published November 25, 2014

Republican Senate candidate Bill Cassidy cast an early ballot Tuesday, seeking to draw renewed attention to a race that has fallen off newspaper front pages and away from people's minds as they plan holiday meals and shopping schedules.

Cassidy is the front-runner in the race against Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu, and he's hoping to maintain that position with a series of high-profile visits from GOP heavyweights in advance of the Dec. 6 election.

Louisiana's last-in-the-nation Senate race won't decide party control of the Senate. But Cassidy said voters still should view it as a way to show their displeasure with President Barack Obama's policies and continue the Republican surge in the midterm election cycle.

"This is Louisiana's chance to put an exclamation mark behind what the rest of the country has said," the GOP congressman said before early voting, with his daughter in tow.

Landrieu is trying to gain ground with attack ads against Cassidy, but she faces an uphill climb to a fourth term. Fifty-six percent of voters chose one of the Republican candidates in the Nov. 4 open primary, and Landrieu is the last Democratic statewide elected official still standing in a state trending more Republican each election cycle.

The Democratic senator has hit Cassidy with TV spots that question his fitness for office, show him stumbling over words, challenge budget cuts he's supported and describe his opposition to a minimum wage hike and equal pay legislation.

In response, Cassidy continues to tie Landrieu to the unpopular president.

Republicans have rallied strongly around Cassidy's candidacy, with a string of visits from likely GOP presidential candidates, including Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Texas Gov. Rick Perry was in Louisiana on Tuesday, attending three rallies with Cassidy.

"It just shows that we are unified as a conservative movement," Cassidy said.

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Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at the BYU Marriott Center in Provo, Utah, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Al Hartmann) more >

Republican voters havent given up on Mitt Romney for president, putting him at the head of the pack of the potential GOP field for 2016 in a new national poll.

Mr. Romney led with 19 percent support in the Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 11 percent. New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie and famed neurosurgeon and conservative commentator Ben Carson tied in fourth place with 8 percent.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to dominate with 57 percent support from her partys voters in the poll. Liberal firebrand Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts placed a distant second with 13 percent, followed by Vice President Joseph Biden with 9 percent.

Mr. Romney, who ran twice before and was the 2012 GOP standard-bearer who lost to President Obama, has shied from talk of another run. But Republican insiders speculate he will jump in the race if Mr. Bush stays on the sidelines.

No other Republican in the crowded field of potential contenders topped 6 percent in the poll, which found 16 percent of primary voters still undecided.

The poll found that the tea party has fallen out of favor among Republican voters, as has tea party champion Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican eyeing a presidential run.

About 45 percent of voters reported an unfavorable view of the tea party and just 27 percent had a favorable view. Similarly, Mr. Cruz got a negative 21 percent to 29 percent favorability rating, the lowest rating of any potential presidential candidate.

Republicans still have Gov. Mitt Romney top of mind and top of the heap in the potential race for the top job, said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. It looks like Republican voters are favoring more moderate choices for 2016.

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By Kevin Bohn, CNN Senior Producer

updated 3:04 PM EST, Sun November 23, 2014

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Washington (CNN) -- A key Republican senator chastised his House GOP colleagues Sunday for failing to pass a comprehensive immigration bill.

"Shame on us as Republicans," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, told CNN's Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger on "State of the Union."

"Shame on us as Republicans for having a body that cannot generate a solution to an issue" involving national security as well as cultural and economic considerations. "The Senate has done this three times," Graham said.

"I'm close to the people in the House, but I'm disappointed in my party. Are we still the party of self-deportation? Is it the position of the Republican Party that the 11 million must be driven out? I have never been in that camp as being practical. I am in the camp of securing our borders first, fixing a broken legal immigration," said Graham, one of the Republican senators who pushed a bipartisan bill to passage there in 2013, but on which the House never voted.

That bill included legal status for the roughly 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States and tougher enforcement measures.

Graham, though supportive of an immigration overhaul, criticized President Barack Obama for taking executive action that could allow almost 5 million undocumented immigrants to avoid deportation and grant many of them work permits. He said he agrees with many of his fellow Republican lawmakers who have called the President's action unconstitutional.

"It's one thing to say, as an executive agency, I don't have the money to prosecute everybody or to deport everybody, so I'm going to rank them in order. It's another for the President of the United States to say, not only will I decide not to prosecute a group of people, but I will affirmatively give you legal status ... that is well beyond executive action."

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