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Democrats have left U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu on her own to fight an onslaught of super PAC money flowing into Louisiana ahead of a runoff election. Outside groups have spent $2.5 million on ads opposing the senior senator since after election day, Nov. 4. The biggest anti-Landrieu spenders in the runoff are non-partisan group Ending Spending Action, the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action and Koch Brothers-linked Americans for Prosperity.

Missing thus far from Louisiana runoff spending is Crossroads GPS, the group affiliated with Karl Rove, which says it spent $2.1 million in the state in October in hopes of defeating Ms. Landrieu; the senator is up against Republican Bill Cassidy in the Dec. 6 runoff.

While Crossroads has not spent a dime in the runoff, the group has not ruled out contributing to the Landrieu pile-on. “We’re monitoring it closely,” said Paul Lindsay, communications director for American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, of the Louisiana race. “There’s three weeks left in the election and we’ve spent significantly up until this point.”

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