Roll Call reports Sen. Landrieu (D-LA) vulnerable to Republican challenger

The one Democratic Senator whose seat is vulnerable to a Republican challenger is Louisiana Senator May Landrieu.

In the Republican Party’s one real shot at knocking off an incumbent Senate Democrat, Louisiana Treasurer John Kennedy is running almost even with Sen. Mary Landrieu (D), according to a new poll conducted exclusively for Roll Call.

Louisiana has been pretty evenly split between the North Louisiana Republicans and the South Louisiana Democrats. Katrina's destruction of the Democratic bastion of New Orleans forced over most of the previous residents of the city to leave Louisiana, and over 200,000 have not returned. This may be enough to shift the balance of power in Louisiana statewide to the Republicans.

Any incumbent who polls even with the challenger this far ahead of the election is highly vulnerable.

See also my earlier post Congressional resignations - retirements to see how the loss of the Democratic seat in the Senate will effect the Senate.