2014 election already underway
by Jordan Blum - Advocate (excerpt)

Welcome to this week’s way, way, ridiculously-too-early look ahead at elections. What’s that? Elections in November aren’t that far away? Oh, poppycock, we’re looking ahead to 2014 and the re-election campaign of U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. That’s right, we’re not even sure who’s running against Landrieu yet but the political shuffling and fundraising certainly already has begun.

U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, raised eyebrows in February when he brought on Gov. Bobby Jindal’s chief political strategist, Timmy Teepell, to help with his 2012 re-election campaign. That clearly got people talking about a likely Cassidy challenge against Landrieu in 2014 because Cassidy does not have any opposition yet in 2012 and he is unlikely to have any well-financed person run against him.

Then, this past week, new fundraising numbers came out showing Cassidy slightly outpacing Landrieu in raising dollars, even though the 2014 election is more than two years away.