Of the two marquee state races on Louisiana’s ballot this fall, one has been decided and the other looks like it might as well be.
Not that races for federal office seem very competitive, made a bit less interesting without a Senate contest this cycle. All five congressional Republican incumbents running at best face token opposition, and even the newly-constructed second majority-minority district in operation probably only for this election cycle has Democrat state Sen. Cleo Fields possessing more than $600,000 to play with, having spent relatively little to this point, while his considered main opposition, Republican former state Sen. Elbert Guillory, has yet to file any campaign finance reports. Unless Guillory, who has demonstrated fundraising prowess for his political action committee, mounts a serious campaign, there’s no way anybody can overcome Fields in a district favoring him.
But it was anticipated that competition could be intense for the two offices on statewide entities up from grabs this cycle, the Supreme Court and Public Service Commission, in both cases District 2. For the Court, that is a new one with a redraw of its map that echoed the congressional map in creating a second M/M district. It slices up northeast Louisiana, meanders across and down the state’s border southward, and into Baton Rouge.