With the polls firmly in Rep. Bill Cassidy’s camp (he currently holds a 20 point lead), it’s all over but the counting for soon-to-be-former Senator Mary Landrieu.

The DSCC announced early in the runoff that it was pulling the $2 million it had reserved for the overtime contest. Landrieu has fumed about how she’s “extremely disappointed” with that decision.

Landrieu fought like crazy to keep her Senate seat… unfortunately, some of those shots aimed at Cassidy ended up hitting her in the foot.
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/530821355491430400
And her desperate attempt to finally get the Keystone XL pipeline fell short, thanks to her fellow Democrats.

Headlines in Louisiana are going to be brutal for Landrieu. Question now is: Why did Dem leaders allow the vote to happen?

— Bob Cusack (@BobCusack) November 18, 2014

And defending her record while pretending to not have been Obama’s cheerleader has been… problematic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDmNjpkuuvQ
Landrieu only has one shot, and it’s a long one.

Landrieu’s best – perhaps only — hope for victory is a huge black voter turnout. But indications from early voting are that she may not get it. Democratic early votes for the runoff were down 18 percent from the Nov. 4 election — 18,000 fewer blacks voted early. At the same time, Republican votes were up 4 percent. The potential net change for Cassidy is 26,000 votes. That’s more than Landrieu’s entire margin of victory on Nov. 4.

The polls will close at 8 pm local time. We here at Victory Girls will be updating this post once numbers are available.

UPDATE (8:40 pm local time): Well, that didn’t take long.

MORE: Republican Bill Cassidy defeats Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu to push GOP majority to 54 seats: http://t.co/90hPTSlNkD

— The Associated Press (@AP) December 7, 2014

The Republicans now have 54 seats in the Senate.