Reply #8: Kerry got 44% of Louisiana's vote in 2004

[Jacobin]

The 'basest of the base' is not Landrieu's, errr, base. She is playing to the wrong end of the spectrum.

She did an EXCELLENT job of bashing RW judicial nominees last year when the repukes tried their little 24 hour debate. She was red-faced and furious and screamed "I will not yield the floor" to cheers from other dems.

She knows how to fight. She knows how to be progressive. She knows most of her catholic constituency uses birth control, get abortions, and are not happy about VietRaq.

I think this was a bad miscalculation on her part. She will gain absolutely nothing from this vote (unless she traded her vote for some pork barrel crap, which is a distinct possibility)