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Cassidy Defeats Landrieu to Extend GOP Control of Senate

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Sunday, December 7, 2014 7:57 PM

JONGSSTRAW


December 7, 2014
Associated Press

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In the last race of the 2014 election cycle, Rep. Bill Cassidy easily trounced incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu on Saturday in a heated Louisiana runoff race that expanded Republican control of the Senate in January and made the longtime dominance of the Democratic Party in the south a distant memory.

"God Bless America," Cassidy told cheering supporters at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Baton Rouge. "We have a lot of work to do."

"This victory belongs to you," he said. Cassidy was surrounded by his wife and family.

"This victory happened because the people in Louisiana voted for a government that serves you and doesn't tell us what to do."

The race was called for Cassidy, who had served three terms in the House, within a half-hour of the polls closing. He was ahead of the three-term Landrieu, 57 percent to 43 percent, with 98 percent of the votes counted, according to C-SPAN.

The runoff was required because neither candidate won 50 percent of the vote in the Nov. 4 election.

Cassidy, 57, is an associate professor of medicine at Louisiana State University.

He became the ninth Republican to capture a previously Democratic seat in this year's elections — pushing the GOP majority in the Senate to 54 seats.

"This was a referendum on the president," debate expert and pollster Matt Towery said Saturday. "The president's approval rating is low, even in Louisiana, and it was just inescapable for Landrieu.

She could not escape the vortex that took everybody down," Towery said.

Incoming Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was among many Republicans who praised Cassidy's victory.

"I want to congratulate Bill Cassidy in his runoff election victory and welcome him to the Senate Republican Conference in the 114th Congress," the Kentucky Republican said in a statement.

McConnell noted Cassidy's support last month of the $5.3 billion Keystone XL pipeline, which passed the House. The Kentucky Republican described the project as "shovel-ready" and "job-creating."

"I look forward to Sen.-elect Cassidy’s help when the new Republican majority passes the Keystone jobs bill early next year," he said.

Cassidy will replace Landrieu on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, "where he’ll be able to continue his work on developing North America's natural resources and jobs while helping to secure our nation’s energy independence," McConnell added.

She had chaired the panel.

Landrieu's defeat after 18 years in the Senate dealt a crushing blow to a New Orleans political dynasty. Her brother, Mitch, is the city's mayor — and the Bayou State now has no woman who has been elected to office statewide for the first time in 54 years.

More broadly, Cassidy's victory made Democratic dominance in a region spanning from Texas to North Carolina a distant memory.

In 1962, every senator and a huge majority of House members from the south was a Democrat, Politico reports. In January, Democrats will control 39 of 149 Southern congressional seats, fewer than at any time since Reconstruction.

Republicans also won each of the seven governor’s races in the South this year and increased their majorities in state legislatures across the region.

Two incumbent Democrats, in Arkansas and North Carolina, were among those to lose their Senate races last month. Three other Democrats lost Senate races in southern states.

Landrieu trailed in every poll during the runoff. A survey this week from WPA Research showed her down by 24 points. Cassidy led by more than 20 points in the RealClearPolitics average of polls in recent weeks.

She spent the final days of her campaign crisscrossing the state and attacking Cassidy for returning to Washington for House votes on Wednesday and Thursday, the Times-Picayune reports. He made few appearances during the runoff campaign.

But Cassidy was back in Louisiana on Friday, campaigning with Iowa Sen.-elect Joni Ernst. He and Landrieu had their last debate on Monday.

Throughout the runoff, he kept up his attacks on President Obama, tying Landrieu to her support of him and many of the White House's policies, especially Obamacare.

Cassidy had said that the Democrat had voted with Obama "97 percent of the time."

Landrieu campaigned on a referendum of her performance — not Obama's — and charged that national Democrats left her to fend for herself during the runoff. Louisiana lost some of its urgency after Republicans won back the Senate last month.

The National Democratic Senatorial Committee withdrew its financial support early on in the runoff, and Landrieu chastised the group for having "abandoned us."

"I just don't believe in leaving a soldier on the field, and that's what they did," she told CNN on Friday.

The Democrats' poor performance nationally last month undermined the central theme of Landrieu's campaign, that her clout was invaluable to Louisiana. Under a Republican-controlled Senate in January, Landrieu would lose her energy committee chairmanship.

Immediately after the November election, she pulled a failed attempt to show that she could break through congressional gridlock and worked to pass the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline.

The project's vote fell one short of what Landrieu needed from her own party to pass the legislation, dealing yet another blow to her campaign narrative. The pipeline would carry 800,000 barrels of crude a day from Canada's oil sands to Texas refineries.

She also attacked Cassidy on several fronts during the runoff: accusing him of being unfit for office, highlighting his awkward speaking style and painting him as taking repeated votes against Louisiana's interests.

The race was the most expensive Senate election in Louisiana history, with $30 million spent by the candidates and millions more from national organizations.

Landrieu raised at least $5 million more than Cassidy, but she also spent at a heavier clip for the Nov. 4 primary, leaving her with fewer resources than her challenger ahead of Saturday.




So finally, the Obamacare Whore who sold out her country for a Harry Reid Las Vegas junket and a suitcase of free chips gets the boot. Bye bye little miss chubby cheeks.



Distraught supporters at Landrieu Headquarters in Baton Rouge say farewell.


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Sunday, December 7, 2014 11:05 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Defeating a legacy gal like Mary and removing her from the family business of living off the public dole was actually closer than it ought to have been. Many were predicting a 20 pt win, but I guess a last minute flurry of ballot box stuffing made it a more respectable 12 pt loss.

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Monday, December 8, 2014 1:10 PM

JONGSSTRAW


Last two weeks Mary The Vote Whore went full-blown race card against Cassidy.
Didn't work too well for her as she hit some new lows in ethics for a sitting Senator.

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Monday, December 8, 2014 2:51 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Last two weeks Mary The Vote Whore went full-blown race card against Cassidy.
Didn't work too well for her as she hit some new lows in ethics for a sitting Senator.



Which is saying A LOT !!!


Heard a nugget today which I've not bothered to fact check, but it still sounds interesting.

Not 1 Senator, who voted for ObamaCare, kept their seat in the 2014 election.
( Obviously, not all were UP for election this go around )

But I did find this...

only half of the Senators who voted to pass the Affordable Care Act will still be in office in 2015, when the new members are sworn in.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-12-07/by-the-numbers-h
alf-of-the-senators-who-voted-for-obamacare-will-be-gone-in-2015




interesting.

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Monday, December 8, 2014 7:48 PM

JONGSSTRAW


Tar and feather the bastages!

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014 7:58 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Another RINO waddles into the Senate. The Conservative in the November race didn't make it.

Cassidy only rates 85% at ACU.

http://ratings.conservative.org/acu-ratings?tid=1&field_house_lawm
aker_tid=12&field_state_lawmaker_tid=All

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014 8:14 PM

WHOZIT


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Another RINO waddles into the Senate. The Conservative in the November race didn't make it.

Cassidy only rates 85% at ACU.

http://ratings.conservative.org/acu-ratings?tid=1&field_house_lawm
aker_tid=12&field_state_lawmaker_tid=All



He's a huge supporter of the Keystone Pipeline, he's OK in my book.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 9:31 AM

JONGSSTRAW


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Another RINO waddles into the Senate. The Conservative in the November race didn't make it.

Cassidy only rates 85% at ACU.


Better to have an obama democrat there?

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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 9:50 AM

JONGSSTRAW


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Originally posted by whozit:

He's a huge supporter of the Keystone Pipeline, he's OK in my book.


I'd pay real money to see that book.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 9:59 AM

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America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Another RINO waddles into the Senate. The Conservative in the November race didn't make it.

Cassidy only rates 85% at ACU.


Better to have an obama democrat there?



Train is still headed over the edge of the washed out bridge, but at a slower speed.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 10:39 AM

JONGSSTRAW


As Joan Chen said to Adam Baldwin in 'Phobos Rising' ... "Only the rain knows when the flower will bloom." Let's see how it goes after January.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 6:58 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Quote:

Originally posted by whozit:

He's a huge supporter of the Keystone Pipeline, he's OK in my book.


I'd pay real money to see that book.


You wouldn't be able to open it, the pages would all be stuck together, or crusted with cream cheese, right?

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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 7:02 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


I have not been able to find what the House results are, but have heard mention on the radio. Are all the House seats decided yet?

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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 7:23 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Another RINO waddles into the Senate. The Conservative in the November race didn't make it.

Cassidy only rates 85% at ACU.


Better to have an obama democrat there?


Better to have Col. Rob Maness there. The GOP liberals would not allow that.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 7:33 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Another RINO waddles into the Senate. The Conservative in the November race didn't make it.

Cassidy only rates 85% at ACU.

http://ratings.conservative.org/acu-ratings?tid=1&field_house_lawm
aker_tid=12&field_state_lawmaker_tid=All



That 85% was for 2013. Lifetime was under 87% with a low of 76% in 2011.

http://conservative.org/legislative-ratings/2012-ratings-congress

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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 8:00 PM

JONGSSTRAW


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Another RINO waddles into the Senate. The Conservative in the November race didn't make it.

Cassidy only rates 85% at ACU.


Better to have an obama democrat there?


Better to have Col. Rob Maness there. The GOP liberals would not allow that.


There aren't enough conservatives for a viable political party. Like it or not, the GOP is all we got.

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