Observations on the election

1) Landrieu is definitely beat. She needed 45% IMHO to be competitive in the runoff. According to John Couvillon she got out the vote early and even that was not enough. She will not get the vote out for a runoff. Money may get scarce for her too as it is obvious she is beat. I will be curious to see how the white vote fell yesterday. I suspect she got the lowest percent of white vote she has ever gotten. I will also be interested to see if the Guillory ads had any impact on black votes for republicans.

2) Cassidy is in with little or no expectations. All he has to do to continue his career as a politician is not screw up.

3) Hillary Clinton is probably looking for a black running mate this morning. It is obvious by looking at the governor's races in Massachusetts and Maryland that the democrats have real problems when the blacks don't turn out. It is the "black" party and the Clintons know it.

4) I have already gotten an email from the "Vitter for Governor" campaign this morning. UGH!!! do we have to endure another year of campaigning? Please change these election dates so we no longer have odd year elections.

5) I was very glad to see both Nunn and Carter soundly beaten in Georgia---another sign of the importance of black turnout to democrats.

6) I predict Jindal will do something during the runoff that will enable him to say on the campaign trial he helped beat Mary Landrieu.