Down the ballot: GOP sweep in LA?

ILLINOIS: Obama political mentor Emil Jones says he's interested in the Senate seat vacated by Obama, and he also said the seat should be filled by an African American. Jones is African American.  LOUISIANA: The New Orleans Times-Picayune writes up Saturday’s upset in Louisiana, where indicted Rep. William Jefferson (D) lost his congressional seat to a Republican challenger. “With the upset victory, Anh ‘Joseph’ Cao, an eastern New Orleans attorney who fled war-ravaged Saigon as a child, becomes the first Vietnamese-American in Congress. He will represent a district that was specifically drawn to give African-Americans an electoral advantage and one in which two of every three voters are registered Democrats.” Jefferson’s “defeat came on a day of abysmally low turnout, which political pundits had predicted could be Jefferson's undoing despite his demographic and political advantages. Ironically, had Gustav not postponed the voting schedule one month, the general election would ... (link)