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Cassidy vs Landrieu: How will their fiscal cliff votes affect the 2014...
Sen. Mary Landrieu So, Sen. Mary Landrieu voted for the fiscal cliff deal in the Senate. Her likely Republican opponent, Baton Rouge Congressman Bill Cassidy, did not. Northeast Louisiana Rep. Rodney...
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Sen. Mary Landrieu: She may be a GOP target, but don’t dismiss her...
Sen. Mary Landrieu By Robert Mann A recent Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey showing Sen. Mary Landrieu leading a slew of potential challengers seems to have signaled the start of the 2014 Louisiana...
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A Louisiana Elections Primer: The next four years will be a wild ride
By Robert Mann “I advise anyone who thinks he knows something about politics to go down to Louisiana and take a postgraduate course.” –Texas U.S. Sen. Tom Connally, 1932. If you are obsessed with...
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Cassidy vs Landrieu: will the 2014 Senate race be a referendum on health care?
Baton Rouge Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy is on the web today, announcing his campaign against Sen. Mary Landrieu in 2014. In a video and in an interview Wednesday morning on WAFB-TV, Cassidy makes it...
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Mary Landrieu’s politically smart vote on background checks
By Robert Mann Some conservatives were probably heartened on Wednesday by Sen. Mary Landrieu’s vote to end debate on legislation requiring background checks on certain guns sales and which would have...
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Expanding Medicaid: Bobby Jindal’s 47 percent moment?
Bobby Jindal (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore) By Robert Mann Forcing Gov. Bobby Jindal to abandon his ill-advised, half-baked tax swap must have been liberating for those Louisiana legislators who have...
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Go left, Rep. Cassidy
By Robert Mann It’s a safe bet that every day someone advises Sen. Mary Landrieu to move further to the right if she wants to win re-election in 2014. Rep. Bill Cassidy (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore)...
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Bobby Jindal doesn’t have a shot at becoming president
By Robert Mann OK, political junkies, you can exhale. Gov. Bobby Jindal says he won’t challenge Sen. Mary Landrieu for re-election in 2014. In the same spirit, I’m announcing that I won’t try out for...
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Fixating on Landrieu’s Obamacare vote might not be a winning GOP strategy
Sen. Mary Landrieu (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Robert Mann It was an article of faith among some Republicans that President Obama’s reelection was doomed because voters would stampede to the polls in...
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The GOP’s Obamacare Insanity
By Robert Mann Among the definitions of insanity is one often attributed to Albert Einstein: “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” That, of course, could explain...
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Dismal numbers: polling and fundraising woes bedevil Cassidy’s campaign...
Public Policy Polling (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Robert Mann A new statewide poll is out on the 2014 Louisiana U.S. Senate race — and it’s not good news for Sen. Mary Landrieu‘s GOP opponent, Rep....
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Mary Landrieu might lose, but not because of her Obamacare vote
Sen. Mary Landrieu By Robert Mann From Baton Rouge to Washington, the verdict among political observers is that Sen. Mary Landrieu’s 2009 vote for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) doomed her re-election....
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Sen. Mary Landrieu has the seniority, but will voters care?
Bollinger Shipyards CEO Boysie Bollinger in a new TV spot for Sen. Mary Landrieu By Robert Mann It’s said that when someone once asked then-House Speaker Sam Rayburn why the Texas congressional...
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To help veterans, Congress should stop making so many of them
#142020890 / gettyimages.com #142020890 / gettyimages.com By Robert Mann The news about the Veterans Administration is “reprehensible,” to quote VA Secretary Eric Shinseki. As a recent VA inspector...
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David Vitter’s tacit admission that Obamacare won’t be repealed
U.S. Sen. David Vitter By Robert Mann I’ve argued for months that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will play only a minor role in the 2014 U.S. Senate race between Sen. Mary Landrieu and her main...
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Says the Louisiana GOP: buy a house — and keep your mouths shut
By Robert Mann I’ve already written about the silly lawsuit by state Sen. Paul Hollis challenging Sen. Mary Landrieu’s candidacy based on the question of her legal residency. Hollis will almost...
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It’s about Mary Landrieu’s heart, not her home
Sen. Mary Landrieu By Robert Mann “Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.” ― Paul Theroux. Now that her Republican antagonists have decided not to trounce her at the polls...
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Why does Bill Cassidy want you to work until age 70?
By Robert Mann If ever a candidate for high public office proved himself disconnected from the worries and fears of average citizens, it was Rep. Bill Cassidy in last Tuesday’s U.S. Senate debate in...
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Will the real Bill Cassidy please stand up?
By Robert Mann Former President Bill Clinton, who was in Baton Rouge last Monday to campaign for Sen. Mary Landrieu, has scorned the attacks on her as someone too liberal for Louisiana. Clinton...
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Another blow to Bill Cassidy’s conservative cred: Woody Jenkins endorses Rob...
Former state Rep. Woody Jenkins By Robert Mann By now, it’s clear that many Louisiana conservatives don’t believe Rep. Bill Cassidy is one of them. In his race against Sen. Mary Landrieu, Cassidy is...
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