Landrieu's Last-Ditch Effort Culminates in Final Debate
It's easy to forget that a Senate race is still ongoing. Yep, Louisiana's senate seat is still undecided.
Democratic incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu is locked in a bitter fight against Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy, trying to save her political career. Her determination was evident at the final debate of the 2014 election Monday night - just five days before the December 6 runoff.
The odds are against the last remaining Democrat in the Deep South in a year where Republicans did exceptionally well up and down the ballot. Although she won a plurality in the November 4 election, that was against two Republicans who splintered the Republican vote. An average of polls taken in the race over the last three weeks show Landrieu down by about 15 percent.
But Landrieu is not giving up. Holding multiple campaign events daily and enjoying last minute support from Hillary Clinton and Stevie Wonder, Landrieu attacked Cassidy in a last ditch effort. She attempted to paint Cassidy as a deceitful politician who double dipped into public coffers to line his pockets with taxpayers dollars.
Cassidy, meanwhile, attempted to tie Landrieu to President Barack Obama, a continuation of a strategy that has been the basis of his entire campaign in the state where the president's approval rating is in the 30s.
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