Mississippi is 36% black and still has a sizable number of blue dog Dems. No uber-conservative “firebrand” type can win a general US Senate election there. That’s why Trent Lott lasted so long.
Savvy Dems should have voted in droves for McDaniel, making the “moderate” Dem candidate more attractive to more MS voters. Cochran’s win will probably keep the seat in Repub hands, which is much more important than teaching RNC bigwigs a lesson they’re incapable of learning imo.
Big picture thinking like that will earn you a good flaming around here.
We have a cohort of Nervous Nellies who oppose Articles of Impeachment until we have 2/3 of the Senate. Then we have a bunch of Barn Burners who want to add one more Democrat to the Senate.
Contesting this runoff is certainly worth doing. A price needs to be exacted for the sleazy behavior that is coming to light.
Aiding and abetting the Democrat Party in ANY way is not our next best move after that.
You make too much sense. A lot of it has to do with the state in question, in this case, MO.
Another poster said something I have noticed since coming to live in the South: voters here may be somewhat more socially conservative, but economically, they’re very leftist and really like the idea of big government and its handouts. And this is true not only of the black voters, although it may be particularly true among them, but of a lot of the rural white voters as well.
Good analysis.
I think you are right.
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