SO WHEN MARY LANDRIEU SAYS HER CAMPAIGN IS HAVING TROUBLE BECAUSE LOUISIANA VOTERS ARE RACIST AND SEXIST, she’s clearly not aiming that statement at the Louisianans whose votes she needs. The only way it makes sense is if she figures she’s going to lose no matter what, and she needs a why-she-lost narrative that will play with her next employers, inside-the-beltway types who’ll buy that sort of thing.

BTW, hasn’t Louisiana elected women and minorities to statewide positions rather frequently in the past? Why yes, yes it has.