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...last undecided U.S. Senate race may not mean much in terms of that chamber's balance of power - with 51 seats already in the bag, Republicans are guaranteed at least a majority. But the runoff contest between Louisiana's incumbent Democrat, Mary Landrieu, and her Republican challenger, Suzanne Haik Terrell, does hold a powerful symbolic appeal. A number of GOP VIPs, including President Bush, have campaigned in the state recently to help solidify the party's strong national showing in November; Democrats, mindful that they already need two Jim Jeffords-like defections to retake the Senate, would prefer...
...Coming as it does on the heels of an historic Republican victory, the race between Landrieu and Terrell has attracted more than its share of attention over the past three weeks. Recent stumping has served to galvanize members of a disconsolate Democratic Party as well as tantalize Republicans with the thought of one more win. For the GOP, ousting Landrieu would be a particularly sweet finale to this very good election season; Louisianans have not sent a Republican to the U.S. Senate in more than 100 years...
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...
...Landrieu, for her part, lost the support of some hard-core women's groups for advocating a ban on partial-birth abortions. She can live without them in a Catholic state, but she needs to repair relations with several African-American leaders who are threatening to stay home to teach a lesson to Democrats, who spend more time courting Bush than courting blacks. Governor Foster came around last week, joining Terrell onstage with Dick Cheney. And there's another politician ready to help. President Bush will swing through Louisiana on his way back to Washington after Thanksgiving to give...