Landrieu Keystone loss dominates La. headlines

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) did not have a good morning on the front pages of Lousiana’s newspapers on Wednesday, as her defeat on the Keystone pipeline bill was splashed across the covers of papers across the state. 

Landrieu faces an uphill battle in the Dec. 6 runoff election with Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy, and the Keystone vote was intended to boost her. But the bill fell one vote short on Tuesday, winning 59 votes instead of the 60 required.  

{mosads}”Landrieu takes hit on pipeline,” blares across the top of The Daily Advertiser in Lafayette. The article beneath it quotes a political scientist at Southern University, Albert Samuels, saying, “This plays right into [Cassidy’s] hands. I don’t know whose idea this was.”

“Vote on pipeline bill a blow to Landrieu,” declared the Daily World, in Opelousas. The same headline runs in The Times of Shreveport, above a picture of Landrieu walking away from a podium with her head down. 

The News-Star in Monroe uses the same photo, below the words “Landrieu suffers setback.”

The Times-Picayune in New Orleans gave it one column below the fold, with “Landrieu one vote short on Keystone.”

The Advocate in Baton Rouge did not have Landrieu’s name in the bottom-corner headline. “Senate narrowly rejects Keystone pipeline bill.”

Landrieu’s name was in the first paragraph.