Proud Mary Keeps On Burnin'

the final Senate debate         Brianna Paciorka, NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune

In Louisiana on Saturday, it's Democrat Mary Landrieu vs. Republican Bill Cassidy in the last midterm election battle, and it's not much of a battle. Landrieu's fighting up to the wire to retain her senatorial seat, but even she probably knows it's a done deal. Part of the problem, of course, is the message. What's hers? Like so many Democrats this year, Landrieu has bent over backwards to show her ties to conservative ideals and to distance herself from the president. She's pro-Keystone XL, pro-fracking, and tries to strike a difficult middle ground on other issues ~ and all Bill Cassidy has had to do is sit back and watch her burn: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/mary-landrieu-louisiana-senate-runoff-the-last-southern-democrat/383412/3/