Few people in New Orleans believe the November contest in which Democrat Mary Landrieu defeated Jenkins by 5, 788 votes was, in its execution, a model of civic propriety.

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But while Bill Clinton carried the re-drawn 6th in 1992 and 1996, Republican Senate candidate Woody Jenkins beat Democrat Mary Landrieu in the district in the '96 Senate race.

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Mary Landrieu and Republican Woody Jenkins should be invalidated.

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"You have to note that the Republicans had an extremely flawed candidate, " Rothenberg said of Jenkins, a divisive former state lawmaker who lost a bruising Senate race in 1996 to Mary Landrieu.

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