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- November 11, 2008 | from The News Star Landrieu's Time to Shine Landrieu's re-election offers the state some traction in the coming Congress with important committee positions. Landrieu sits on the Appropriations, Energy and Natural Resources, Small Business and Homeland Security and Government Affairs committees. Each of these are of vital important to Louisiana. The state is a significant supplier of oil, and is home to a major Army base and Air Force base.
- November 09, 2008 | from The News Star Landrieu stays centered Her willingness to reach beyond her base of Democratic support was reflected in the election results, which show she did well in some traditionally Republican strongholds.
- November 05, 2008 | from 2theadvocate.com Landrieu holds on to seat in Senate "People came back and they came together," Landrieu said, adding that endorsements from some Republican elected officials, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the national AFL-CIO showed her win was a "victory for unity."
- November 05, 2008 | from Thank You, Louisiana Thank you for giving me a chance to keep fighting for you in the U.S. Senate. Together, we showed the world that Louisiana is a state that puts progress before partisanship; results before rhetoric and solutions before soundbites.
- November 04, 2008 | from New Orleans Times-Picayune Sen. Mary Landrieu wins third term Once targeted by national Republicans as the U.S. Senate's most vulnerable Democratic incumbent, Sen. Mary Landrieu defeated GOP state Treasurer John Kennedy on Tuesday to claim a third term. Landrieu, who won by narrow margins in 1996 and 2002, survived another tight race against the backdrop of the diminished Democratic base of pre-Katrina New Orleans.
- October 31, 2008 | from Shreveport Times Campaign Notebook: Landrieu gets endorsement Lemoine said that although the District Attorneys Association bylaws do not allow endorsement of candidates, individual district attorneys support her because "Mary Landrieu has been for law enforcement many years at the state and local level."
- October 31, 2008 | from The Daily Advertiser Daily Advertiser: Re-elect U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu Mary Landrieu's strength in the U.S. Senate is an enormous asset to the people of Louisiana. We can ill afford to lose the benefits that accrue from her assignment to Senate committees that strongly impact our state, or the effectiveness with which she serves our needs on those powerful committees.
- October 31, 2008 | from The News Star Landrieu: Now is not the time to switch leaders Kennedy's campaign sent out a press release praising Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., for effectively killing an emergency aid bill that would have delivered aid to Louisiana farmers impacted by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
- October 31, 2008 | from The Times-Picayune Poll finds Landrieu holding her lead U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., still has a commanding lead over Republican state Treasurer John Kennedy in the Senate race, but the presidential race in Louisiana seems to be tightening, according to an independent poll released Thursday.
- October 31, 2008 | from The Daily Iberian Wrong about La. fearing Democrats Kennedy, of all people, should know playing on conservative hysteria does not work in this generation's Louisiana. In 2004, when he was still a Democrat, Kennedy finished a distant third when he ran for the U.S. Senate seat Vitter eventually won.
