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Landrieu Holds Small Lead in Re-Election Bid (The Hollywood Liberal)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:42:34 GMT

Landrieu Holds Small Lead in Re-Election Bid A new Southern Media & Opinion Research poll in Louisiana shows Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) leading challenger John Kennedy (R), 46% to 41%, with 14% still undecided. [...]

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Landrieu Holds Small Lead in Re-Election Bid [Taegan Goddard's Political Wire] (The Liberal Blog Network)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:22:08 GMT

A new Southern Media & Opinion Research poll in Louisiana shows Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) leading challenger John Kennedy (R), 46% to 41%, with 14% still undecided.

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Poll: Landrieu in lead for Senate race (WAFB - Local News)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:39:34 GMT

A new poll shows incumbent Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu holds an edge on Republican challenger John Kennedy in the fall election.

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Landrieu Holds Re-Election Edge [Taegan Goddard's Political Wire] (The Liberal Blog Network)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:14:01 GMT

A new Southern Media and Opinion Research poll in Lousiana finds Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) holding a slight lead over challenger John Kennedy (R), 46% to 40%. CQ rates the race Leans Democratic.

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LA-Sen: Tightening (Swing State Project)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:02:31 GMT

Southern Media and Opinion Research (6/26-28, likely voters, 3/26-4/9 in parens): Mary Landrieu (D-inc) : 46 (50) John Kennedy (R) : 40 (38) (MoE: ±4%) Let's open 'er up and look at the innards: Despite polling under 50 percent, there's still encouraging news in the poll for Landrieu. A solid 61 percent majority of respondents said they viewed her favorably, with only 33 percent...

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Senate Democrats Eye Magic Number of 60 (Kiplinger Personal Finance)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:56:55 GMT

... year. Meanwhile, the only seat Republicans have a realistic chance to pick up is the one held by Mary Landrieu in Louisiana.

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N.O. levees squeezed by Congress' demand for cash (Arizona Republic)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:13:37 GMT

... officials are trying to persuade Bush to extend the payments.In a letter to Bush, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said the demand "flies in the face" of the president's promise to rebuild New Orleans as a better city after Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005 and killed more than 1,600 people. After levees broke, 85 percent of the city was flooded.The White House did not immediately...

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N.O. levees squeezed by Congress' demand for cash (kansascity.com)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:37:00 GMT

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N.O. levees squeezed by Congress' demand for cash (The Washington Times)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:27:35 GMT

In a letter to Bush, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said the demand "flies in the face" of the president's promise to rebuild New Orleans as a better city after Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005 and killed more than 1,600 people. After levees broke, 85 percent of the city was flooded.

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Clarus Research Group Launched (PR News Wire )

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:04:00 GMT

... editor and publisher of Campaigns & Elections magazine. He previously served as U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu's Chief of Staff during Louisiana's hurricane recovery period and has headed government affairs for the American Institute of Architects. He has made frequent television and radio appearances as a nonpartisan analyst and is a frequent source for major newspapers and national...

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the jj dinner (dangerblond.org)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:23:11 GMT

... this point, I can’t decide between her and Cedric. I’ll need to know more. The speakers included Mary Landrieu, Don Cazayou, Charlie Melancon and William Jefferson, whom they all call “Jeff.” The Langhoffs, Karen and I visited the bar while Jefferson was speaking. Him, I don’t need to know any more about. Apparently, Democrats like Jefferson because he has a straight-up Democratic...

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Nichols: Repub Prospects Grim in Senate (Drudge Retort)

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:09:29 GMT

John Nichols: A review of polling data from around the country makes it obvious that a lot more than three Senate seats could fall to the Democrats. While no Democratic incumbent -- with the possible exception of Louisiana's Mary Landrieu -- faces a serious threat, as many as a dozen Republican seats are competitive.

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Senate Polling Update [MyDD] (The Liberal Blog Network)

rss@mydd.com (Jonathan Singer) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:32:43 GMT

I've got a few polls backed up in the queue, so rather than write them up individually, here is a compendium of some of the latest numbers: Louisiana: Overly worried about Mary Landrieu's prospects? The latest numbers her campaign commissioned from the Mellman Group show her ahead of Democrat-turned-Republican John Kennedy by a 49 percent to 33 percent margin. Bottom line, I don't think...

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LA-SEN: Landrieu Internal Poll Shows 16-Point Lead (MyDD)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:12:21 GMT

A poll conducted for Mary Landrieu's campaign by The Mellman Group shows a relatively comfortable lead for the Louisiana incumbent: (5/17-20, 600 LVs, 12/2007 results in parens) Mary Landrieu (D): 49 (48) John Kennedy (R): 33 (35) Now, a Rassmussen poll conducted May 28th showed Landrieu only up by three. But as James at SSP points out , the Mellman results track...

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FEMA director defends giving away hurricane supplies (The BN Village)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:29:04 GMT

... unaware Katrina victims still needed the items because no agency had contacted his office. Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, an outspoken critic of FEMA's response to the hurricane, told CNN the supply giveaway was "just a shame." "It's just another example of the failings of the federal bureaucracy," said Landrieu, who wrote Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff last...

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FEMA Director Defends Giving Away Hurricane Katrina Supplies (Hip Hop Caucus Blog)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:14:00 GMT

... was unaware Katrina victims still needed the items because no agency had contacted his office.Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, an outspoken critic of FEMA's response to the hurricane, told CNN the supply giveaway was "just a shame.""It's just another example of the failings of the federal bureaucracy," said Landrieu, who wrote Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff last...

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Bayou Lamoque Floodgate Removal Project Receives Funding (Red Orbit )

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:00:14 GMT

By Anonymous The Bayou Lamoque Floodgate Removal project, which will remove existing floodgate and allow water to flow unimpeded into Bayou Lamoque and surrounding marshes, has received $869,594 from a Minerals Management Services grant, according to Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-New Orleans.

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Democratic voter drive overwhelms La. (News: Moldova.org: Politics)

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:06:00 GMT

A Democratic voter drive in Louisiana gathered so many names that registration officials have had to work overtime to keep up.Voting Is Power, aimed at black neighborhoods, was financed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee because U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu is up for re-election this year, The New York Times reported.Republican officials complain the drive has produced as many...

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Obama Campaign Names Virginia Director (Raising Kaine - Front Page)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:44:39 GMT

The press release below is from the Obama campaign. According to this , Stewart was "a regional field director for the Louisiana Democratic Party during Sen. Mary Landrieu's 2002 run-off campaign." In addition, he served as a "regional field director for the South Dakota Democratic Party during Sen. Tim Johnson's 2002 re-election campaign," and has "served as a research assistant and...

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FEMA withheld relief from Katrina victims (Prairie Weather)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:56:43 GMT

... down. "Somewhere in this big bureaucracy, links weren't made," said Adam Sharp, spokesman for Sen. Mary Landrieu, whose office is scrambling to track FEMA's discards and possibly reroute them to UNITY of Greater New Orleans, which desperately needs goods for formerly homeless people it has placed in subsidized apartments. "If the supplies just have been moved from one warehouse to...

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