Senator Landrieu, I know everyone is bailing on you, but this one weird trick could keep your Senate seat. It's called "30 days of convincing Seniors to vote for you". It's clear that all the turnout the young/african american midterm dropoff voter stuff didn't work. So you're going to need a lot of seniors to pull this off. Luckily, Bill Cassidy has a terrible record on seniors, and yours is good!
As you'll note from the roll calls/budget summaries, he's voted no less than 4 times (actually more for some issues depending on the Ryan budgets as well) to raise the Medicare eligibility age (3 times to 67, once to 70) and 4 times to turn Medicare into a voucher plan, and 4 times to reopen the Medicare prescription donut hole which you're working so hard to close (applies to current, not just future seniors). He voted 4 times to cut preventative healthcare benefits such as vaccinations, cancer and heart screening (applies to current not just future seniors). He voted 4 times to raise the Social Security retirement age to 70, and twice to cut future social security benefits (applies to current not just future seniors).
Somehow with all these cuts, he managed to find room in each budget for massive tax breaks for the wealthiest among us.
His lifetime Alliance for Retired American's score is a paltry 6%, and his 2013 score was 0%. He voted with the National Committee to protect Social Security and Medicare 0% of the time in 2014. In 2013 you voted with both of those groups 100% of the time, and have a solid 85% lifetime ARA rating.
You, Senator Landrieu, have worked to increase Medicare benefits for preventative healthcare and eliminate the prescription donut hole. You have cosponsored the Medicare Protection Act to prevent people like Bill Cassidy from raising the Medicare retirement age and turning it into a voucher program. When the lame duck starts, I'd cosponsor Mark Begich's bill the Protecting and Preserving Social Security Act , to further demonstrate your commitment to properly adjusting for inflation and increasing future benefits.
Bottom line is, you need to drink some of his milkshake, because your milkshake is not likely to show up on December 6, go show those Seniors who's looking out for them!
National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare Scores
ARA vote scorecard
RSC FY 2012 Budget
Roll Call
RSC FY 2013 Budget
Roll Call
RSC FY 2014 Budget
Roll Call
RSC FY 2015 Budget
Roll Call
10:39 AM PT: UPDATE: Looks like she's on to this strategy at least a bit. Demanded 6 debates on topics such as energy,Medicare, Social Security, education, and foreign policy.