Given that Landrieu has won two runoffs in the past, I'm guessing that she's not in the hideous shape that some people think she's in.
This.
The 04' election was a even worse year for Democrats, yet she still hung on.
It kills me to say this, but the south and especially states like LA and AR are rapidly trending Republican at the state wide level. They used to love voting for the ' right kind of democrat' , in fact a lot of people probably preferred the moderate to conservative Democrats over the Republican. Unfortunately times have changed and these southern states are going to be monolithically Republican. In 2002 there was still a lot of residual yellow dog Democrat types to put Landrieu across the finish line.
