You’re not too well informed on Mississippi......awash in blue dogs my arse
Whites in Mississippi vote more GOP than any state in the nation 88-90% with Alabama a close second.
No way can you extrapolate that we have a large number of blue dog Dems from that fact......and it is a fact dear.
McDaniel won the Republican vote in the runoff...Cochran with the Barbour machine and Yankee lib cash enticed an additional 35,000 Democrats to vote for Cochran who were nowhere to be found in primary
Without that repugnant tactic McDaniel would have won by 9% minimum
I tell you honey the ignorance about Mississippi on this forum is always entertaining
Aside from race baiting black votes Cochran had familiarity and appeal to folks not up on hot issues like we are here.....which BTW....is a lot of folks sadly but doesn’t mean they are Sam Nunn clones
And BTW....screw all that for the sake of the party crap.....
What party?
Neither represents us.
I wish the GOP fought the left half as hard as they do conservatives
The two parties are becoming more and more identical by the day.
I didn’t say MS is “awash” with blue dogs. I noted the 36% black population + however many blue dogs was a significant number that affects how conservative a U.S. Senate candidate can be and still be elected over a moderate Dem. I don’t know MS, but I know GA, which has 2 “moderate-conservative” Repub senators for the same reason MS does imo. Also, in GA there’s a history of Senate candidates paying their dues in lower offices (Gov./U.S. House) and running on their record.
IIRC, McDaniel tried to go from the MS House to the U.S. Senate with little or no record to speak of. Maybe it’s different in MS, but GA voters imo are more reluctant than most to buy a pig in a poke for U.S. Senator. We want to see a candidate’s long record and know what we’re getting. Even then, with demographics similar to MS, we accept that the most conservative candidate/s in the Republican primary almost certainly won’t win a statewide election over a quasi-conservative Dem. GA dodged a bullet this time when the two Repubs most likely to lose in Nov. lost in the primary. We may see similar Dem shenanigans as in MS to affect the GA July Repub runoff for Senate.
“And BTW....screw all that for the sake of the party crap.....What party? Neither represents us. I wish the GOP fought the left half as hard as they do conservatives”
Clyde Wilson was warning about this long ago.