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By Dan Merica, CNN
updated 11:34 PM EDT, Sat November 1, 2014
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New Orleans (CNN) -- To Hillary Clinton, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu is the fighter for Louisiana who "refused to let Washington turn its back" on the state in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina almost 10 years ago.
Clinton reached back to the months and years after the 2005 hurricane killed more than 1,500 people in Louisiana to praise Landrieu on Saturday at a New Orleans rally for the endangered three-term senator.
"She was relentless," Clinton said, noting that she and Landrieu were in the Senate at the time. "You learn a lot about a person and a leader in a moment like that. And I saw Mary in action, no cameras, no attention, just focused like a laser to take care of her people."
Clinton continued: "She never gave up. If you know anything about Mary Landrieu, you know that is an ingrained characteristic, she doesn't shy away from a fight."
Landrieu is in a different kind of fight this year -- a fight to keep her Senate seat against a stout challenge from Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy. Every national poll since the start of September has shown Cassidy besting the incumbent.
Clinton did her part on Saturday to knock Cassidy but never actually referred to him by name.
"From what I have heard, Mary's opponent didn't really lift a finger after Isaac," Clinton said, using a familiar Landrieu campaign attack that cites a 2012 no-vote against legislation that included disaster relief money for the state after Hurricane Isaac rocked the state.
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HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. (AP) Like many people in the large conservative enclave of northern Kentucky, Tanya Bartlett has voted for Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell several times over the course of his 30-year career.
But that changed in 2010, when McConnell announced his top priority was to make sure President Barack Obama did not see a second term.
"You're not actually, truly representing the people of your state when you say something like that," Bartlett said, who has since changed her voter registration to the Democratic Party.
That was the theme in northern Kentucky on Saturday as former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigned for Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes in one of the country's most closely watched races. It was Clinton's second trip to Kentucky for Grimes, who most public polls show narrowly trails McConnell heading into Tuesday's election.
"This is not just a contest between a permanent Washington fixture and a fresh face. It is a contest between old thinking and new thinking," Clinton told more than 1,000 people at Northern Kentucky University. "We cannot in our country continue to reward the dividers. We need to reward the uniters, the people who care about everybody."
Calling the election "a referendum on the future," Clinton stressed Grimes' support of raising the minimum wage, protecting Kentucky's expanded health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act and fighting against wage discrimination for women themes that Grimes has focused on from the beginning of her campaign.
"The voters of Kentucky have a chance not just to send a message, but to alter the course of politics and government," Clinton said. "Ultimately this election comes down to this question: Who is on your side?"
But polls show voters like Bartlett could be in the minority. Public polls show Obama has approval ratings of as low as 30 percent in Kentucky, and McConnell has exploited those dismal ratings by making the election a referendum on Obama's presidency. At a rally in his hometown of Louisville, McConnell sounded confident as he stressed the importance of get-out-the-vote efforts.
"We've identified way more than enough people to win this election," he said. "The only remaining issue is, will they vote?"
Across the country, Republicans are making a strong push to seize control of the Senate and make McConnell the chamber's majority leader. McConnell said voters will have a chance to weigh in on Obama's policies on spending and regulations and a slow recovery from the Great Recession.
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