Republican Bill Cassidy has defeated Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu
Republican Bill Cassidy has defeated Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu
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Republican Bill Cassidy has defeated Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, giving the GOP another victory in the final election of the 2014 midterms. Cassidy's win in Louisiana's Saturday runoff pushes the Republican's new Senate majority to 54 seats in January and costs Democrats their last Senate seat in the Deep South. Landrieu fought to make the election a referendum on her own performance rather than on President Barack Obama. But she was unable to win a fourth term against the wave of GOP gains across Southern states and the strong unpopularity of the president.Comment: Finally decided
Half of the Senators who voted for Obamacare won't be part of new Senate:
ReplyDeleteOn Dec. 24, 2009, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed President Obama’s healthcare law with a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority, triggering a massive backlash that propelled Republicans to control of the House the following year. On the Senate side, going into this year's midterm elections, 25 senators who voted for Obamacare were already out or not going be part of the new Senate being sworn in next month. After Democratic losses on Nov. 4 and Saturday's defeat of Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., the number has risen to 30. In other words, half of the Senators who voted for Obamacare will not be part of the new Senate.
To be sure, it isn’t fair to attribute all of the turnover in the chamber to Obamacare. In some cases — such as John Kerry leaving his seat to become secretary of state, or Robert Byrd passing away — Obamacare clearly had nothing to do with the departures. Additionally, some outgoing pro-Obamacare votes were replaced by new Democratic senators (although that tended to be the case in heavily Democratic states).
That having been said, many senators who voted for Obamacare lost re-election battles in which they were hit hard for their support for the law and other Democrats were forced to retire because they had no hope of getting re-elected given their support for the law. A total of 16 Senators who voted for Obamacare either failed to win reelection or declined to run for reelection and had their seats turned over to Republicans.
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Results:
ReplyDeleteCassidy was leading 57 percent to Landrieu's 43 percent with 96 percent of precincts reporting. Speaking from the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Baton Rouge, Cassidy, with his wife and family by his side, thanked voters for their support and said he looked forward to representing them in Washington.
"This victory belongs to you. This victory happened because the people in Louisiana voted for a government that serves you and doesn't tell us what to do," Cassidy told an enthusiastic crowd.