An internal poll for Rep. Don Cazayoux showed him with a big lead, and now a DCCC poll echoes the sentiment. A Bennett Petts & Normington poll conducted 10/8-9 for the DCCC surveyed 400 registered voters for a margin of error of +/- 4.9%. Cazayoux, state Senator Bill Cassidy and state Rep. Michael Jackson, the independent candidate, were tested.

General Election Matchup
Cazayoux........46
Cassidy.........29
Jackson......... 9

Jackson, an African American former Democrat who lost the special election primary to Cazayoux, was supposed to have seriously cut into Cazayoux's base. But having failed to raise serious cash, Jackson doesn't look like a major factor so far.