麥凱恩選情開始受到威脅，民主黨奪得共和黨長期擁有的議員席位

在奧巴馬大勝希拉利的露易絲安納州。民主黨選舉的連續造勢和奧巴馬的勝利，幫助民主黨剛剛奪得被共和黨長期擁有的一個眾議員席位。

這個勝利具在傳統的共和黨保守的州有相當的指標效應。奧巴馬對中間選民和共和黨內偏左的選民的吸引力，將對麥凱恩的選情造成相當的衝擊力。這部分中間選民將取到重要的杆稈效用，特別在一些中間偏右的共和黨傳統的州，有可能產生天平逆轉的作用。

注：共和黨現在已經在它的競選廣告中把奧巴馬作為唯一的攻擊對象。


Democrats on Sunday cheered a weekend special election in Louisiana, where a Democratic congressional candidate won a seat that has been held by Republicans for decades.

Democratic State Rep. Don Cazayoux beat Republican Woody Jenkins in the state\'s 6th Congressional District on Saturday, with Cazayoux winning 49 percent of the vote to Jenkins\' 46 percent. Both parties viewed the race as a potential bellwether of November\'s congressional races.

The national GOP poured more than $1 million into the contest in an attempt to tie Cazayoux to national Democrats such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.

Don Cazayoux\'s victory this evening proves once again that Americans across our country want real solutions and reject Republicans\' negative attacks, Pelosi said in a written statement hailing the win.


The contest was to replace U.S. Rep. Richard Baker, an 11-term Republican who resigned in February to become a lobbyist. The district, which includes capital city Baton Rouge and its surrounding parishes, has been held by the GOP since 1974.
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Democrats viewed a victory there as an indication of just how vulnerable Republicans will be in November, while Republicans viewed the race as an early glimpse of how a possible Obama candidacy could affect races down the ticket.

Cazayoux\'s win comes two months after Democrat Bill Foster won a special election in Illinois to replace former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen quickly sought to link the two races.

Freedom\'s Watch, a conservative group formed by former Bush administration officials, got involved in the race by financing anti-Cazayoux television ads -- a move Democrats said violated election laws.

But the National Republican Congressional Committee countered that their attempts to link Cazayoux to Pelosi and Obama helped Jenkins make up substantial ground in the race.

When Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi were introduced into this campaign, Don Cazayoux was leading by a large margin in the polls, an NRCC memo stated. Since then, Republicans saturated the Baton Rouge airwaves in an effort to nationalize this contest and make the election about the real-life consequences of a Barack Obama presidency and a continued Pelosi-run Democratic Congress.