Although this is a typical, ordinary NY Times story on the Louisiana Senate race if you read it carefully, and even read between the lines, you will note that the jig is up. Landrieu will lose for essentially the same reason that the Demos lost the Senate: Bush is very popular and Terrell has tied herself to him both politically and personally (and Bush will visit the state a few days before the election) and Landrieu’s base, or what’s left of it, will not turn out in sufficient numbers to help. I predict that it will not even be close, double digits.