she held on through agt years of george w. bush and republican waves and democratic waves. pic. she won in 2008 by six points, even as barack obama lost her state by 19 points that year. if you look back at exit polling from her various races over the years, you would see that mary landrieu would get most of the african-american vote and about a third of the white vote. that s how mayry landrieu won. that s how she stayed ahead of this trend line. get most of the black vote and a third of the white vote. now louisiana does a lot of things differently from the rest of the country. they have parishes and drive through daiquiri shops. one of the quirks of louisiana politics is they have an all in everybody against everybody
waves and democratic waves. louisiana still picked mary landriue even as barack obama lost her state by 19 points that year. if you look back at exit polling. get most of the black vote and a third of the white vote. now louisiana does a lot of things differently from the rest of the country. they have parishes and drive through daiquiri shops. one of the quirks of louisiana politics is they have an all in everybody against everybody election in the first round
bash. the south voted against obama twice. the south still picked mary landrieu. even as barack obama lost her state by 19 points that year. if you look back at exit polling from her various races you can see that mary landrieu would get most of the african-american vote and about one-third of the white vote. that s how she won. that s how she managed to stay ahead of this really bad trend line for democrats in the south. get most of the black vote and one-third of the white vote. louisiana does a lot of things differently from the rest of the country. they have parishes instead of counties. drive-through daiquiri shops. louisiana does things differently. one of the quirks of louisiana politics is they have an all-in, everybody against everybody election in the first round instead of party primaries. they call it a jungle primary.
and if you want to know the story, her luck seems to be running out. in 2002, she won the run off. we can t break it down that well. 2008 she won the primary. it s that 52% of the vote. that s how she won her third term in the senate. we have exit polling and in 2008, landrieu getting 52% of the vote overall to all of the black vote. 96-2 over the republicans. among white voters in louisiana, she got 33%. a third of the white vote. when you are a democrat in the south, you are doing well to get a third of the white vote. if you can, you have a chance of winning. she got a third of the white vote. since barack obama has been president, politics in the south and in louisiana have been much more polarized along racial and partisan lines. think of that 33% and the jungle primary in november.
neither party in the aftermath of this election is going to be embraced by the country. reporter: preliminary exit polling found 65% of voters thought the nation was on the wrong track. 12 points more negative than two years ago. and a lot of the blame is aimed at the white house. president obama s job approval ratings are at career lows. and exit polls found that 54% of voters disapprove of the job he s doing. and president obama is looking ahead. he s invited congressional leaders from both parties to sit down with him at the white house on friday to talk about the path forward after this very significant election day. but t.j. and reena, i would not hold your breath for everybody to suddenly be able to work together. you re probably right, karen. thank you so much. to some other races drawing national attention because of name recognition.