Cindy Hyde-Smith has won the election, according to A.P.

NY Times ^ | 2018-11-27 | Kyneocon

[kyneocon]

Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican who was appointed to the Senate this year, faces Mike Espy, a Democrat and former congressman, in a special election runoff on Tuesday after neither candidate won a majority on Election Day. The election was held to fill the seat of Senator Thad Cochran, who retired earlier this year for health reasons.

[nopardons]

Which is WHY RBG needs to retire or die; we need Trump to get another justice before 2020!

[Ingtar]

Odd that she seems to have won the more populous counties, while he seems to have won where there were fewer voters.

[OrioleFan]

Maybe the Trump jobs increases were a factor.

[reg45]

She has not missed a day of oral arguments since she was appointed to the Court in 1993.

But, is she awake ....?

[FLvoter]

Nah. He lives for that legalese stuff, so he knew better than to skirt around the law. He’s gay though.

[fortheDeclaration]

He will vote Conservative most of the time.

[BTerclinger]

LOL!

(I’d rather have her at a hanging than a hanging chad!)

[BradyLS]

Exactly. Wednesday is the day Democrats turn out to “recount” the votes.

[sjmjax]

Democrats have a useless House that won’t be able to pass anything.

Except a lot of gas!

[BTerclinger]

There was some rumor about an Obama threat to investigate the adoption of Roberts’ two kids...

this is 9 minutes long but you can run it at 2x speed and still get the gist:

https://youtu.be/bFATATMnzaM?t=143

[Ingtar]

Actually, I was thinking, it seems to be almost the reverse of electing the Dim over Judge Moore. I think we might be able to blame it on embarrassment.

[jonrick46]

WINNING!

[BigEdLB]

They will name new post offices for obscure leftists and retired congress members

[bray]

Has the DNC propaganda machine declared it illegitimate yet?

[Robert357]

How nice!

[Flaming Conservative]

Thanks FRiend!

[4Liberty]

+1

[elcid1970]

Hopefully this means that Collins & Murkowski will lose their veto power over SCOTUS picks.

[apillar]

Roberts went to the dark side. SCOTUS is 5-4 lefty Well in defense of Roberts (yeah it's tough because he's a bit of a Bush-bot idiot), he has been a solid Conservative vote on all of the major cases with the glaring exception of Obamacare (Heller gun rights, gay marriage etc.) in fact he goes with the conservative majority 94% of the time, which is in roughly the same range as Thomas and Gorsuch. I seriously doubt he's going to suddenly march in lock step with Ginsburg. However I do think he has a reputation for "consensus building" and may likely try to moderate some of the conservative rulings to pull off a couple liberal justices as he prefers 7-2 decisions to 5-4. Either way, it would be best if Ginsburg or another liberal justice would depart to give us some extra "cushion".

[Katya]

Good, finally! I’m on all the DNC mailing lists and Espy asking for funds every other day was getting tiring.

(full-disclsure: I’ve always been registered as a dem, I live in a bluer than blue state and the primaries are the only avenue of influence I have.)