Cassidy

Lucky that she has a small house in Dee Cee in which to live.

Via National Journal

Rep. Bill Cassidy defeated three-term Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu in Louisiana’s Senate runoff election Saturday night, stretching the GOP’s 2014 gains to nine seats and giving the party 54 senators starting next year.

The Associated Press called the race quickly.

Landrieu had finished first in the all-party primary a month ago but with only 42 percent of the vote, while the second-placed Cassidy and fellow Republican Rob Maness combined for a majority of the votes cast in November. Maness endorsed Cassidy for the runoff.

Landrieu’s campaign poured most of its resources into that initial primary, hoping to win an outright majority victory while Republicans’ votes were still divided and thus avoid a runoff. But after a weak showing in November and certainty of a Republican take-over of the Senate, fellow Democrats largely left Landrieu to fend for herself in the runoff.

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