Could LA be competitive in 2016?

[Rockefeller GOP]

Joe Manchin (D-WV) vs. Susan Collins (R-ME)?  It goes Dem in a landslide.

An actual, realistic scenario for 2016?  Possibly, but I doubt it.  Despite what the Ready For Hillary crowd thinks, she's not a centrist and she has nowhere near the ability to rope in traditionally Democratic groups (like poor Whites) as her husband did, so I don't see it.  A Christie/Clinton election makes Louisiana close; any other Republican hangs on pretty easily, IMO.  It's trending Republican, even locally, much faster than West Virginia, Arkansas and Kentucky.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Only if the Republican nominee is horrible.

So any Republican candidate?

OMG, LOL!!!!

[Rockefeller GOP]

Haha, I'll tell you one thing!  If she does make it competitive, this forum will surely reject the idea that poor rural Southerners aren't quite as unanimously Republican in a non-Obama era as we all thought and instead will decide Louisiana is now less Southern.