It’s all very odd now, so many voters undecided and an incumbent Republican winning a big crossover vote but not polling well with voters of his own party and nearly 1/3 of the voters undecided. I don’t think I’ve seen it before. To paraphrase a Chinese proverb, we live in interesting times. I don’t see Travis Childers winning this, but if a lot of Republicans abstain in this race, who knows what’ll happen?
A near-loss for Cochran in the general would be a good shot across the bow for the establishment. It’s assumed by some that if Childers wins, he’ll be a one-term Senator. That’s been said about others before, most notably the late John Tower of Texas, who served for 24 years.
I hope Cochran loses. At this point, you have to say putting scum like that in is as bad as a Democrip.
I’m not a tin foil hat kind of gal, but I can honestly perceive a plan where Cochran wins, then resigns (health reasons, ya know) and Barbour appoints himself or a place holder until a special election or the next regular election is held. Barbour would then keep control of the state party and be in the driver’s seat to be elected.
Cochran is showing the effects of his age. His errant wandering in the Capitol is pretty alarming.
McDaniel is not only fighting for this election. He’s taking on the whole corrupt, power hungry GOPe establishment in MS. Maybe he doesn’t care if he’s tainted goods and is willing to be a sacrificial lamb if it reveals the true colors of the Cochran/Barbour cabal and levels the playing field for the next real conservative who runs.
John Tower was a 35-year old Conservative (younger even than Ted Cruz) when he won the special election to succeed the liberal LBJ over an old (62) Tory Democrat seatwarmer named Dollar Bill Blakley. He was certainly in line with the ideological lean of Texas voters and at the vanguard of the state’s eventual realignment to the GOP.
Travis Childers was a 50-year old Democrat fluke running in a Republican district where the special election nominee, Greg Davis, was a creepy closeted homosexual RINO (who also turned out to be a criminal, sentenced just this month to prison for 2 1/2 years). Had the nominee been the choice of the base, ex-Tupelo Mayor Glenn McCullough, Childers would’ve lost. Now Childers is 56, certainly in no likely position to embark on a career in the Senate that would take him to 80 years of age (Tower was all of 60 when he wrapped up his 24 years in the Senate). His election would similarly be a fluke, based entirely on the corruption of the incumbent and his fitness for office, not an affirmation of a return to the Democrat party after MS’s realignment to the GOP.
How is it odd that so many are undecided? You dump and rain on the
same voters you need in the general election and this is what you get.
A large portion of MS conservatives on the fence on if they will sit it out
or vote for Childers.
BTW 40% is not a ringing endorsement for Cochran.
Spread your nonsense elsewhere.
I don’t agree with people who think the solution is replacing Cochran with someone to his left. Some people seem to rooting for a heavily democrat Congress because of course that’s better than Boehner and McConnell in their minds.
A “near loss” means the NRSC would be spending money there that could be used to take over democrat seats. Therefore, I hope he wins easily. My nose will remain on my face. One way or another this next term will be the last for this a-hole. This primary will be remembered in the same fashion as the Alamo. San Jacinto can begin shortly in Tennessee.