Landrieu Exceeded all Expectations, so will Hillary be Competitive?

[Mister Mets]

Gillepsie exceeded all expectations. Does that mean Virginia will be competitive?

It's certainly a sign in that direction.

[Mister Mets]

Landrieu, despite being abandoned and massively outspent, managed to exceed expectations. People were predicting a 30-point Blanching and they were wrong. Does this mean Hillary can be competitive in Louisiana? I definitely think so. Discuss.

I don't recall anyone expecting a 30-point loss.

An incumbent losing by double-digits is typically not an indication of a party's strength in the general.

[Mister Mets]

It's the worst showing by an incumbent Democratic Senator outside of Arkansas in quite some time. You've got to go back to Bill Frist's election in Tennessee in 1994 for a bigger loss for an incumbent.

Landrieu can take solace that when Arkansas Democrats are counted, she only had the third biggest loss of a Democratic incumbent Senator in the last twenty years.