The Good Guys Get Another Won

Democrats have picked up a seat in deep-red Louisiana.

Democrat Don Cazayoux defeated Republican "Woody" Jenkins in the race for U.S. Representative from the 6th Congressional District.

In the 1st District, Republican Steve Scalise easily defeated Democrat Gilda Reed.

So, this was a seat that went 59% for Bush in 2004, where the opponent and Republicans went after Don Cazayoux by trying to link him to "liberal extremists" like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. That dog clearly does not hunt.

Apparently, winning a Republican-held seat means that "this should come as a warning shot to Democrats," according to the NRCC. Yeah, keep trying with that one.

If the Mississippi seat comes through in a couple weeks, we will have virtually swept the contested seats in special elections leading up to November. Now, Cazayoux isn't going to be everybody's favorite Democrat on a lot of issues, but the optics are absolutely terrible for Republicans. They may end up with less than 200 seats in the 110th Congress.

What an embarrassment George Bush and the Republicans anymore. And oh by the way, they can't win seats by scaring people anymore, so worrying about "the Republican attsack machine" is officially nonsense.