Lousiana- The Last State House Up for Grabs
With all the focus on the Dem takeover of the Virginia Senate last week, there's been far less attention to the danger that the GOP will pick up a chamber in post-Katrina Louisiana in next Saturday's runoffs. Now, even a lot of Lousiana Dems are pretty conservative, but there's at least one race that the netroots types should be watching, right in the heart of New Orleans itself.
Community activist Deborah Langhoff (D) faces off against one-session incumbent Nick Lorusso (R). Lorusso was elected in a March 2007 special election runoff, after winning only 89 more votes than Langhoff in the hastily-called special primary. I actually met Deborah when I spoke at a grassroots Louisiana conference last Spring and she was everything you'd want in a progressive candidate.
