OMG! Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) slipped and told a radio host that she didn't vote for President Obama!
Well, from the context she actually meant to imply something more general, i.e. her independent voting record, but her history of running away from the president and the policies of her own party has made her vulnerable to the narrative of lies currently being fed to her last, most likely, constituency:
It was a heated exchange and a source close to the Landrieu campaign said the Louisiana Democrat meant that she didn’t vote in lockstep with the president all of the time, but the Black Conservatives Fund seized on the remark and is pushing it out to black voters on Election Day.
On Friday, Landrieu appeared on the morning show of radio host and Tea Party supporter Jeff Crouere, and the two engaged in a combative exchange....
Crouere argued that Landrieu’s support for Obama and the Affordable Care Act, which he called the president’s signature legislative achievement, had sunk her campaign.
Landrieu shot back that she was not a rubber stamp for Obama, and argued that ObamaCare was not the president’s signature legislative achievement because he and other liberals wanted a single-payer healthcare system. She said she voted for the Affordable Care Act because she believed it would help Louisianans.
“I voted for the Affordable Care Act, I did not vote for Obama,” she said. “I voted for the Affordable Care Act for Louisiana and that’s the truth.”
The Black Conservatives Fund has spliced those comments into robo-calls going to more than 64,000 likely black voters in the state hoping to put a dent in Landreiu’s near-universal support with African-Americans in Louisiana....
“Did you hear that?,” the voice on the robocall says. “Mary Landrieu talking to a white host different than the way she talks to black voters … she says that she didn’t vote for President Obama. Can you count on her? Deprive the Democrats of your vote today. You can vote, just don’t vote for Mary Landrieu.”
Disingenuous, but well earned. Not that she had a chance to win anyway, but if she'd been a strong defender of all things Democratic it would be a tactic that wouldn't work.
For a Democrat who's been all too often afraid to support Democratic policies and priorities and even to be associated with the head of her own party, it's likely to cut into and depress the turnout of her last bastion of support, and she has no one to blame for that but herself.
Will others take her loss as an object lesson going forward? Hopefully, but I doubt it.