WASHINGTON – Scare-tactics and name-calling were in the Halloween air Friday in the final drive to the mid-term elections.

Just five days before Election Day, Democratic Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu was under fire for saying President Obama isn’t doing well in her state because “The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.”

In comments that could drive turnout among some of her loyal supporters, Landrieu added: “I’ll be very, very honest with you. It has not always been a good place for women … It’s more of a conservative place.”

Republicans pounced on the comment, made in response to a question about oil leases during an interview on NBC. State party chair Roger Villere called the remark “insulting.”

Landrieu is locked in a tight race with top opponent Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy.

Obama lost the state, which Bill Clinton carried twice, but it has been trending Republican.

In Georgia, Democratic Senate candidate Michelle Nunn defended a flier urging black voters to “prevent another Ferguson [Missouri].”

But Nunn has herself been the target of fear politics, as one of several Democrats getting hit slammed on the Ebola crisis.

“Nunn even initially refused a travel ban to stop Ebola,” intones the narrator in an ad paid for by an outside group, the Ending Spending Action Fund.

In Pennsylvania, Democratic congressional candidate Kevin Strouse angrily accused his GOP opponent, Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick, of “urging his supporters to commit voter fraud by abusing the absentee ballot system.” Fitzpatrick had encouraged backers to get absentee ballots.