instead of party primaries. they call it a jungle primary. and in the jungle primary this november that gave us an x ray as to how mary landrieu was doing. turns out her support among white voters had disappeared. she was used to getting a third of the white vote but in november that was down to 18%. she had become basically just another democrat who couldn't win in the south. we can debate why this s should mary landrieu have run more on the obama record, did she waste her time on the keystone pipeline, calling for a vote on her opponent's bill to approve it? was there no good way for her to run this year with democrats in exile. did national democrats let her down? has the democratic ground game in the south turned to dust? what could mary landrieu do in trying to remain the last southern democrat in the united states? and whenever that would cost democrats in terms of principle or treasure to try to keep her as the last one blue dot in the south, would it have been worth it?