from The Nation:
GOP Gives Up On Beating Any Dem Senatorsposted by John Nichols on 10/16/2008 @ 11:34pm
There was only one Democratic US Senator seeking reelection this year that Republicans seriously suggested they might be able to beat.
Elected in 1996 and reelected 2002 by the narrowest of margins, Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu was seen as being vulnerable because so many Democratic voters who had once lived in the city of New Orleans -- Landrieu's base -- had been relocated after the Hurricane Katrina debacle.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee recruited a top challenger, state Treasurer John Kennedy, a former Democrat, and pumped money into his campaign against the incumbent. They attacked Landrieu for "voting with Barack Obama 81 percent of the time." They called her "the most liberal senator in Louisiana history." They tried the social issues. And the war. And, er, they failed.
The NRSC has given up on the race, canceling all of its remaining television advertising buys scheduled from now through the election.
Kennedy is on his own, and out of the running. .......(more)
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http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/373139/gop_gives_up_on_beating_any_dem_senators