Word: landrieu
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Landrieu, running for a second term, trumpets the fact that she has voted with the President a generous 74% of the time! But by that criterion, she could be in trouble: Terrell says she will vote for Bush 100% of the time...
...talking tough is not an option in Louisiana, where there's a close battle going on, a runoff (required when no one tops 50%) on Dec. 7 between the top two finishers: incumbent Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu and state election commissioner Suzanne Terrell. The Republicans' strategy: show how close Terrell is to Bush. The Democrats' approach: pretty much the same. That's right, despite the new tough talk from the party's presidential wannabes, the Democrats' best strategy right now is to narrow the gap with Bush, maybe pretend there's no daylight...
...Terrell might be up the bayou if Landrieu was a good ole girl lighting up the campaign trail. In a state that went for Clinton (the good-ole-boy thing) but soundly rejected Gore in 2000, Landrieu is more homecoming queen turned soccer mom than Big Easy backslapper. One of nine children of former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu, she lives in her childhood home when in the state and walks a tightrope that might be described as compassionate conservative Democrat. She is great at delivering the pork (most mayors are grateful supporters), and she looks after the working class...
...break to the one who does the best job of caulking the cracks in her base. Before the election, Republican Governor Mike Foster (who was supporting Cooksey) railed at Terrell for engaging in "class warfare" because of a negative ad she ran around the clock for weeks that claimed Landrieu had lost touch with Louisiana values because she lives in a million-dollar mansion in Washington. Landrieu's row house next to a dry cleaner on a major thoroughfare might be worth a million - Washington real estate is absurd - but it's surely not worth more than Terrell's residence...
...whose father David held the same seat for 18 years, and John Sununu of New Hampshire, son and namesake of the former Governor and White House chief of staff for Bush I. Also Liddy Dole of North Carolina, wife of the former Senate majority leader and presidential candidate. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, whose father was mayor of New Orleans and a member of Jimmy Carter's Cabinet, is favored in a runoff. In the Senate they'll all join Evan Bayh of Indiana and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, both sons of Senators, and Hillary Clinton, who seems intent...