Only days before Tuesday’s open primary, the race for a vacant congressional seat centered in Baton Rouge remains hotly competitive, with six Republicans and Democrats bunched together, polling shows.
The top two finishers who emerge from the scrum Tuesday night, regardless of party, will go head-to-head in a December runoff.
The situation is similar for another vacant congressional seat in a district that stretches from Monroe to Alexandria to Bunkie to Bogalusa. There, it appears that three Republicans are fighting to win a spot in the runoff against a Democrat, likely to be state Rep. Pat Moore, the polling shows…