A new Democracy Corps survey of likely white voters in Louisiana shows that while Mary Landrieu is in a difficult position and most likely trailing slightly, the race can be moved and Landrieu has a path to achieving the level of white support that is required to win a runoff […] Read more »
Louisiana Tilting Democratic in 2014
In 2014, more Louisianans identify themselves as or lean Democratic (45%) than Republican (41%), a shift from the slight edge Republicans have held for past three years. The shift in party preferences is likely a welcome indicator for Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu as she attempts to win her fourth term […] Read more »
Betting on a Brand When Politics Is the Family Business
Three business school professors recently set out to discover what accounts for regional differences in product choices by consumers. Although about 60 percent of it had to do with regional sales and marketing, a startling 40 percent stemmed from what they described in The American Economic Review as “persistent brand […] Read more »
Why two Louisiana Senate polls show wildly differing results
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) is in the reelection race of her life, but two early polls in the past month disagree sharply on how much danger she’s in. A closer look reveals why. The latest was a siren: Landrieu’s negative ratings rocketed 30 percentage points since 2012, and her reelection […] Read more »
Mary Landrieu’s Very Difficult Re-election
A survivor. That’s how some Republicans think of Senator Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat who seemed to defy political gravity by winning two tough re-election campaigns, even while Louisiana, like the rest of the Deep South, became unshakably Republican. … But an analysis of election results, turnout data and exit […] Read more »
About those Kaiser polls
A set of New York Times/Kaiser Family Foundation polls on Southern Senate races and ObamaCare created quite a brouhaha last week, eliciting a level of vitriol not seen since the “unskewers” rose up in reckless disregard of reality during the presidential race. At some level, the invective is hard to […] Read more »