Posted on 06/04/2014 6:39:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Not only that, but Jacobs came THIRD! He was also beaten by conservative Sam Clovis. It is clear the establishment has lost its leverage in Iowa.
“...but Jacobs came THIRD!...”
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I didn’t know that. My, how the mighty have fallen. I watched some of a debate they had in Iowa and Sam Clovis was quite a character.
That he was, and this is really how a primary should go. I am happy with the result even though I endorsed Clovis. Ernst will be a great candidate and hopefully she’ll keep the straight and narrow when she enters the senate.
Now awaiting Bruce Braley’s dismissal of ‘dumb farmers like Grassley and Erst’. That will play well with the floating voters.
Mississippi has tHAD enough ping Well half of us anyway!!!
( Cochran, by contrast, did not appear to address his supporters. )
It was way past his bedtime
Yes and it won’t be close.
We have voter ID that went off went off without a hitch yesterday. If that helps.
Hell back then everybody in Ms was a Democrat.
Thad Cochran -- a prime exhibit in the museum of the fossilized Republican Party.
Thad really needs to Go! Turn the page with him.
National Review is doing their best to put this in a positive light for Cochran, but if you read between the lines here, it's clear that Cochran is bought and paid for by liberal lobbyists who could care less about Mississippi. What Cochran gets out of his support to liberals is a a bid wad of pork to distribute to the Haley Barbour insiders.
Uncle Joe: "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
That was on Friday so he was talking about opinion polls.
If McDaniels defeats Cochran in the primary run-off....which he will win, by a good margin.......Chris McDaniels in the next USA Senator from Mississipppi!!! End of story!!! Just take at look at the ballots cast for McDaniels & Cochran...over 350,000 and compare to the roughly 80,000-90,000 cast for low life, Obamabot, Democrat, Childers!!!
Take away, the low life, vermin Democrats that breached the Pubbie primary with their destructive votes, trying to defeat the Tea Party (they failed) and McDaniel wins...hands down!!!
McDaniel....do not up for one second.....destroy Obamabot lover, Thad Cochran in the runoff!!!
You do realize that MS has open primaries. Based on my observation at my own polling place yesterday, many of the Cochran votes were Obama voters. Cochran placed ad(s) in black owned/run papers begging for dim crossover votes. And based on my, and others, observations got them.
Now, whether they’ll bother to get out and vote again, on jun 24 when it’ll be warmer and even more humid is the real question.
That most of them will be voting dim in the fall is not in question, however.
All good, but that the TEA Party couldn't come up with a credible challenge to Lindthy Graham still rankles me.
I predict Lindsey Graham is forced into a runoff. Of the three polls done in that race, all before McDaniel’s win last night, only one showed Graham over 50%
Have you all seen this:
@SenThadCochran: Welcome home, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. A grateful America thanks you for your service.
How out of touch can that old coot be?
If I were in ms. and on McDaniel’s team, this stupid tweet by Cochran would be front & center of any run off strategy. Just sayin.
Have you all seen this:
@SenThadCochran: Welcome home, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. A grateful America thanks you for your service.
How out of touch can that old coot be?
If I were in ms. and on McDaniel’s team, this stupid tweet by Cochran would be front & center of any run off strategy. Just sayin.
One GOP Group Hopes Thad Cochran Will Walk Away from a Mississippi Runoff
Abby Ohlheiser
All signs point to a three-week runoff battle between longtime Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran and his Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel. The GOP can avoid what seems sure to be a frantic three-week scramble to secure the nomination if one of two things happen: 1) the precincts who haven’t yet reported their election results manage by some miracle to bump McDaniel a few tenths of a percentage point above the simple majority threshold needed to win the primary outright, or 2) one of the two candidates steps aside. McDaniel’s allies are hoping Cochoran will do just that.
It’s easy to see why, for some, giving up early would not be the most shocking thing to happen in this midterm cycle. That’s especially after Molly Ball’s must-read Atlantic profile of Cochran on Tuesday painted a portrait of a candidate who was weary of the campaign trail, and who failed to recognize a reporter he met a half an hour ago. Cochran, 76, has said that the first thing he’d like to do after Tuesday’s primaries, if he won, was “take a nap.” He didn’t even speak to his supporters last night at his campaign’s election night party.
On Wednesday morning, the conservative Club for Growth released a statement calling for Cochran to save the GOP the pain of a runoff with a voluntary decision to discontinue his candidacy. Club for Growth President Chris Chocola said:
Yesterdays historic vote makes it clear that Mississippians are ready to turn the page to a new generation of bold, conservative leadership. Senator Cochran has served honorably, but the rationale for his candidacy ended yesterday. He said he didnt want to run again, but everyone asked him to. Well, a plurality of Mississippi Republican voters just proved that they dont want him to...He should do the honorable thing and decline to contest the runoff. Should he choose to persist, the Club for Growth PAC and conservatives throughout Mississippi will vigorously pursue this race to its conclusion, and we will look forward to the election of Senator Chris McDaniel.
Basically, people who think a Cochran pullout is a good idea are raising two points: first, Cochran didn’t really seem to want to run for another term in the first place. And second, the votership for a primary runoff will be more conservative than it was on Tuesday, leaving many to wonder how Cochran, currently in second place, can win under that scenario. To add to the pain, a potential big GOP spender who’d be inclined to support Cochran Karl Rove’s American Crossroads is going to stay out of any possible runoff in Mississippi.
On the other hand, the GOP establishment also believes that a McDaniel candidacy could make Cochran’s seat an unexpected opportunity for Democrats to actually snag a Senator from Mississippi, during a midterm cycle when a GOP takeover of the Senate is within reach. McDaniel, who pitches himself as the most conservative Senate candidate in the country, is currently embroiled in a messy political scandal involving one of his allies.
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