Louisiana Democrat wins House seat

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They tied him to the boogeyman Barack Obama and boogeywoman Nancy Pelosi to no avail. They called him "Don Tax You" and attempted to portrayed him as an out-of-touch liberal, too. They threw every strategy possible at him in a field test for the 2008 campaign... and lost in conservative, suburban Baton Rouge.

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By tomorrow every Republican in the House is going to be thinking "There but for the grace of God go I." If a well-known strongly conservative GOP candidate with 28 years experience in the state legislature can't win an open seat in a heavily Republican district that the GOP has held since 1975, what is going to happen in the many open seats and marginal Republican districts in November? To make matters worse for the GOP, the DCCC has $44 million in the bank (of which it spent $1.2 million on this race) to the NRCC's $6 million (of which they spent $500,000 in LA-06).

If you guys lose in the same scenario in northwest Mississippi on May 13, you might as well fold the tent.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Democrat Don Cazayoux has won a special congressional election, bolstering his party's majority status on Capitol Hill and taking a seat held by Republicans since 1974.

Cazayoux, a state lawmaker, beat Republican Woody Jenkins to cap a campaign that drew attention and cash from the national parties and from interest groups in Washington. The seat opened when Republican Richard Baker, a 20-year incumbent, resigned to take a lobbying job.

With all precincts reporting, Cazayoux had 49 percent to 46 percent for Jenkins, a community newspaper publisher. Three independents combined to take over 4 percent of the vote.