To the surprise of no one, Republican Bill Cassidy ousted incumbent Mary Landrieu in the Louisiana U.S. Senate runoff Saturday.  Mark Barabak has this story in the LA Times.  Doesn't look like the Veep will be using his tie-breaking vote much in the next Congress.  Until just before the election, there appeared to be a good chance that His Superfluous Majesty (as Benjamin Franklin would have had it) would have made a real difference.