Thirty-five states have U.S. Senate races this year.  Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race has the most candidates on the ballot.  There are nominees from the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian and Reform Parties, plus eight independent candidates.

Magellan Strategies released a poll of the Louisiana U.S. Senate race, and included all four party nominees, and three of the independent candidates.  The results:  Republican incumbent David Vitter 51.9%, Democrat Charlie Melancon 33.7%, Libertarian Randall Hayes 2.1%, Reform Party nominee .6%, all the listed independent candidates combined 2.2%, undecided and other 9.5%.   The poll has a breakdown of voter support for the various candidates, according to the party membership of the voter.