There will be a runoff in Louisiana’s US Senate race. Democrat incumbent Senator Mary Landrieu garnered 42-percent of the vote in yesterday’s primary followed by Republican challenger Bill Cassidy with 41-percent. Cassidy says Landrieu is a Washington D-C senator, not a Louisiana Senator…

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But Landrieu says President Obama will not be on the December ballot. She says this race should focus on who’s best for Louisiana’s future…

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The runoff election is December sixth.

In the 6th Congressional District, former governor Edwin Edwards captured 30-percent of the vote and will face Republican Garret Graves in the runoff. Graves received 27-percent of the vote and LSU Political Science Professor Robert Hogan says Governor Jindal’s former coastal advisor has run a strong campaign…

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Hogan says Graves goes into this run-off as a slight favorite, because of the voter make-up of the sixth district.

The two candidates that made it to the December 6th runoff in the 5th Congressional District were Republican family physician Ralph Abraham and Democratic Monroe Mayor Jamie Mayo. Abraham barely beat out Duck Dynasty family member Zach Dasher for the runoff spot. Pollster Darrell Glascock says if the Dasher campaign had a couple more days, the results may have been different…

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Jamie Mayo had 28% of the vote, Abraham had 23% and and Dasher had 22%.