Friday - November 21, 2014

Polling The Pirogue

A pirogue is a bayou canoe. It’s similar to a rowboat, but longer and thinner. Unlike a canoe, which is usually round bottomed, a pirogue is generally flat on the underside. Classically these boats were carved from tree trunks, but these days they’re mostly made from sheets of plywood. While you could set one up to use oars or a little outboard motor, you could also get along with a kayak paddle or a canoe paddle. Or you could stand up in the back in the classic manner, and push your little boat around the swamp with a big long stick. This is called polling. Shove a stick in the mud and see what you come up with, then move along. How apt.

Looks like forcing a Keystone XL vote didn’t help her at all. Louisiana’s special run-off election is on December 6th, and things aren’t looking good for this bitter Democrat candidate for Senate at all.

Rasmussen Reports’ first survey of the Louisiana Senate runoff shows Republican challenger Bill Cassidy comfortably on his way to joining the new GOP Senate majority.

Cassidy posts a 15-point lead – 56% to 41%- over incumbent Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu among Likely Louisiana Voters in our latest statewide telephone survey. Just three percent (3%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Landrieu edged Cassidy, a U.S. congressman, 42% to 41% on Election Day earlier this month, with eight candidates officially in the race. But under Louisiana’s so-called “jungle primary” rules, the contest will now be decided by a December 6 runoff because no candidate cleared the 50% mark.

Eighty-seven percent (87%) of the state’s likely voters say they are certain to vote in the runoff, and Cassidy leads 57% to 41% among these voters.

In hopes of swaying voters in her energy-conscious state, Landrieu pushed hard this week for Senate passage of legislation approving the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas, but liberal senators in her own party defeated her. However, our survey, taken while the Senate was debating this action, doesn’t show that Landrieu was likely to benefit much from passage of the pipeline measure.

Seventy percent (70%) of Louisiana voters favor building the Keystone pipeline, compared to 58% of voters nationwide. In the Pelican State, this includes 52% who Strongly Favor it. Just 15% are somewhat or Strongly Opposed.

Among voters who Strongly Favor the Keystone pipeline, Cassidy leads Landrieu 78% to 20%.

If Cassidy wins, that makes it, what, + 10 for the Repubs? How many do they need to be filibuster proof?

Posted by Drew458     on 11/21/2014 at 09:45 AM   
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