Democrats have been worried about the African-American vote in Louisiana for months. But what really doomed Sen. Mary Landrieu’s reelection bid was the near-monolithic white vote against her.
Landrieu’s loss Saturday to Republican Sen.-elect Bill Cassidy followed a November all-party primary in which the incumbent got a lower share of the white vote (18 percent) than all but one other Democratic Senate candidate in the country, according to exit polling. CONT.
Scott Bland, National Journal