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Louisiana set to fill remaining Senate seat; Latest polls show Landrieu, Terrell in dead heat
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jun 18, 2006 07:31pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, December 7, 2002 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The neck-and-neck Senate battle in Louisiana is looking more like a popularity contest than a political campaign these days.
Republican Suzanne Haik Terrell hopes to win Saturday's runoff election by surrounding herself with every GOP luminary she can find, while embattled incumbent Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu fights a lonely campaign for survival, shunning party leaders whose fate could not be more closely tied to her own.
Terrell, the state elections commissioner, who wants to be the first Republican senator from Louisiana since Reconstruction, has hosted President Bush, former President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi, Sen.-elect Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to name a few.
A Terrell win would give the Republicans a 52-48 majority in the Senate and a final victory in the GOP takeover of the Senate in the November 5 midterm election.
For her part, Landrieu has appeared with her colleague, Louisiana Sen. John Breaux, but no other leaders of the national Democratic Party.
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