Best and Worst Senators of the Past 50 Years: Louisana

[Mr. Smith]

And here's Louisiana.

Last Year's Winner: Russell Long (38.9%)

Past Records

Best

AL: Heflin
AK: Gravel
AZ: Goldwater, Part II
AR: Bumpers
CA: Wilson
CO: Udall Hart
CT: Weicker
DE: Biden
FL: Graham
GA: Nunn
HI: Fong
ID: Church
IL: Simon Obama
IN: Lugar Bayh
IA: Harkin
KS: Dole Kassebaum

Worst

AL: Sessions
AK: Stevens
AZ: McCain
AR: Cotton
CA: Feinstein
CO: Allard
CT: Lieberman
DE: Coons
FL: Rubio
GA: Chambliss
HI: Akaka
ID: Craig
IL: Braun
IN: Quayle
IA: Ernst
KS: Brownback

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Johnston/Edwards

[Mr. Smith]

I went with Landrieu...Huey Long proved segregationists were not the best that could come from the state long before the Civil RIghts era, so that knocks out Ellender and Russell.

So that leaves it to Johnston and Landrieu...I give the edge to Landrieu.


As for worst, that guy who lost to John Bel Edwards in the gubernatorial.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I went with Landrieu...Huey Long proved segregationists were not the best that could come from the state long before the Civil RIghts era, so that knocks out Ellender and Russell.

Yoiu must have meant Russell Long. Huey was very pro-civil rights for a 30s Southern politician.

[Mr. Smith]

I went with Landrieu...Huey Long proved segregationists were not the best that could come from the state long before the Civil RIghts era, so that knocks out Ellender and Russell.

Yoiu must have meant Russell Long. Huey was very pro-civil rights for a 30s Southern politician.

Exactly, which is why those who succeeded him [Huey] are nothing but disappointments. If Huey hadn't been as pro civil-rights as he was, maybe one could've chalked up segregation as coming with the turf...but nope.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I went with Landrieu...Huey Long proved segregationists were not the best that could come from the state long before the Civil RIghts era, so that knocks out Ellender and Russell.

Yoiu must have meant Russell Long. Huey was very pro-civil rights for a 30s Southern politician.

Exactly, which is why those who succeeded him [Huey] are nothing but disappointments. If Huey hadn't been as pro civil-rights as he was, maybe one could've chalked up segregation as coming with the turf...but nope.

The only 302s/40s politicians with similar stance I can think of were Claude Pepper, Jim Folsom, Sr. and Sid McMath.

[TDAS04]

Johnston/Vitter

[RINO Tom]

Every "bad" Southern Republican Senator is better than any Southern Democrat who opposed giving Black Americans their Constitutionally guaranteed rights.  Period.

[Kingpoleon]

Landrieu/Vitter

[windjammer]

Landrieu by far, great senator!
Vitter the worst

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Landrieu/Vitter

[Maxwell]

Long/Vitter

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Don't care about the past 50 yrs restriction. No one will compare with Huey.

As for worst, Vitter.

[Intell]

Best: Long
Worst: Vitter

[Intell]

Every "bad" Southern Republican Senator is better than any Southern Democrat who opposed giving Black Americans their Constitutionally guaranteed rights.  Period.

How very simplistic.

[Mr. Smith]

Every "bad" Southern Republican Senator is better than any Southern Democrat who opposed giving Black Americans their Constitutionally guaranteed rights.  Period.

Right, so what do you call the switchovers who became Republican in revolt then, do they magically become non-Southern?

Also, Edward Gurney the corrupt says hi...pity everyone else went with Rubio.

[RINO Tom]

Every "bad" Southern Republican Senator is better than any Southern Democrat who opposed giving Black Americans their Constitutionally guaranteed rights.  Period.

How very simplistic.

Rebuttal, please.  I believe not supporting Black people's right to vote, shop and dine where they'd like, get an education and even get a fair trial/justice when their own had been MURDERED is a lot worse than whatever modern Southern Republicans have done or said.

But I'm sure you'll still disagree because muh populism.

[RINO Tom]

Every "bad" Southern Republican Senator is better than any Southern Democrat who opposed giving Black Americans their Constitutionally guaranteed rights.  Period.

Right, so what do you call the switchovers who became Republican in revolt then, do they magically become non-Southern?

Also, Edward Gurney the corrupt says hi...pity everyone else went with Rubio.

I will go off of the CRA and VRA vote, and by my count there was ONE Southern Democratic Senator who switched and that was Thurmond.  And I'm not a fan at all.

[Miles]

Long/Vitter

The correct answer, though Ellender is a close 2nd.

[Mr. Smith]

Closed:

Best: Mary Landrieu (33.3%)
Worst: Diaper Dave (83.3%)

[Ichabod]

Every "bad" Southern Republican Senator is better than any Southern Democrat who opposed giving Black Americans their Constitutionally guaranteed rights.  Period.

It is pretty sure that, for instance, if Jeff Sessions (and many other southern Republicans) had lived in the 60's, he'd be a segregacionist Dixiecrat