Early voting for the November 3rd election is over. Joe Gallinaro breaks down the numbers.
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With less than a week to go before Election Day, supporters of Julia Letlow and Jamie Davis are pulling out the stops in getting the word out about their choice for U.S. Senate. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Early voting for the November 3rd election is over, with nearly 521,000 voters casting ballots. According to the Secretary of State’s Office, registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans among early voters by nearly 16,000. That could be a concern for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Julia Letlow. But LSU political science professor Robert Hogan says strong election day turnout in two congressional races, the fifth and sixth district, could help offset that gap.
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Also added to the mix are almost 93-thousand no-party voters. Hogan says don’t assume that those voters cast their votes for Democrats in proportion with President Trump’s approval rating among independents across the country.
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In 2022 – the last U.S. Senate election in Louisiana that was held during a mid-term election – the total turnout was more than 1.38-million. That may suggest that upwards of a million voters may cast ballots on Election Day. But Hogan says what turnout will be on Tuesday is unpredictable.
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October comes to an end later this week and LSU Health Climatologist Barry Keim says the 2026 hurricane season is likely done for Louisiana…
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Keim says in the 175 years of hurricane record keeping, a named storm has never made landfall in Louisiana in November…
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The 2026 season has produced 10 named storms, just one hurricane. An average Atlantic hurricane season produces 14 named storms and seven hurricanes. Keim says as expected El Nino has limited storm formation this year. He says this will be two years in a row that Louisiana did not have a hurricane make landfall along the state’s coast…
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With less than a week to go until Election Day, how are supporters of Julia Letlow and Jamie Davis feeling? Former Democratic lawmaker Melissa Flournoy tells Jim Engster on Talk Louisiana that Davis has run a great campaign, especially with limited resources.
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At an event in Lafayette last week that marked the kickoff to early voting, a Letlow supporter said the congresswoman is the only viable option to send to the U.S. Senate.
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Early voting wrapped up with Democrats outnumbering Republicans at the polls by almost 16-thousand. Flournoy says it underscores the energy and enthusiasm Democrats have for Davis and in this election as a whole.
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Citing the two publicly-released polls that show Letlow leading Davis by a much smaller margin than originally forecast, a Letlow supporter said this election cannot be taken for granted.
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