According to Survey USA incumbent Democrat Mary Landrieu and John Kennedy are in a close battle for US Senate.  Landrieu is scoring 46% , Kennedy is tallying 42%, within the survey's 3.9% margin of sampling error.

Mary Landrieu has always been involved in close races as she was behind Susan Terrell with only days to spare in their last race almost six years ago.  However, John Kennedy, the state Treasurer, who is now Republican, has the benefit of a newly-elected Republican Governor. 

Interestingly, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for Roll Call, Kennedy leads by 12 among men; Landrieu leads by 19 among women which would be a 31-point Gender Gap. Kennedy leads by 22 among whites. Landrieu leads by 60 among blacks but there is a question regarding the African Americans voting since their most recent turnout was in the low teens of registered voters.  The election is the fall of 2008.