Louisiana Senate Race Goes to Runoff

Louisiana will not know which candidate will represent the state in the next Congress until December. Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu and Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy will face off in a runoff next month, the news networks projected. Both candidates slugged it out thorugh the night, but neither was able to score a knockout over the other. The winning candidate had to win 50 percent plus one vote in the election. The polls suggested a runoff for weeks, with a third candidate, the Tea Party-backed Rob Maness, pulling enough votes from the right to keep the two main candidates neck-and-neck. A number of polls suggest Landrieu is likely to lose a runoff.