GOP Outmaneuvered in La. Runoff (washingtonpost.com)

More on Landrieu victory, although the Washington Post is calling the special circumstances in Louisiana a factor.

With two Democratic U.S. senators, both of them Catholics, the state remains what it has always been: a Deep South anomaly. The ethnic and religious mix is different here. And as Louisiana slips in national economic indicators, its poverty may be influencing voting behavior.

There is a Democratic victory strategy, wait until Republicans have reduced most of the US to poverty.