Posted on 06/24/2014 9:05:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
HATTIESBURG, Mississippi — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) survived the most intense challenge he’s ever faced in his 41-year political career, winning a runoff against conservative state Sen. Chris McDaniel.
The Associated Press called the race for Cochran, who is up nearly 6,000 votes with 99 percent of precincts reporting.
A source close to McDaniel told Breitbart News that he is considering legal challenges over ballots. Democrats who voted for Cochran on Tuesday but voted three weeks ago in the Democratic primary in the state were not allowed to vote in Tuesday’s election.
Election results indicate Cochran's late appeal to Democratic voters paid off, with the incumbent senator picking up sizable vote totals in precincts with heavily black populations. Partisanship in Mississippi is largely polarized on racial lines, and Cochran allies paid key Democratic operatives to help turn out the vote....
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McDaniel should fight on and never concede. Even if it is over he should never endorse Cochran.
Agree... this is war!
He should fight, and go ‘write in’ if he loses ...
If he doesn’t, that woild be remarkable.
Challenge, challenge, challenge!!
Recount, recount, recount!!
There is no way Cochran won this thing legitimately.
Challenge, challenge, challenge!!
Recount, recount, recount!!
There is no way Cochran won this thing legitimately.
Thad Cochran got by with a little help from his friends, the RATS.
There is serious blowback coming to the MS politicians who supported
Cochran and the dirty trick played on conservatives there.
Don’t know what form it will take, or when it will happen, but blowback
is coming.
McDaniel supporters should not vote for Cochran in the General, also. Any other Republican who has done the same in other states. Using RAT votes and tactics to defeat people who stand for Principles of Constitution do not deserve General Election support!!
There is no way Cochran won this thing legitimately.
On what basis do you say this? If Cochran got democrats out ala Operation Chaos to vote for him to thwart the tea party candidate, you may not like it, but it’s “legitimate”.
Lying and spreading fear isn’t nice either but it’s a standard dirty trick used by all politicians.
Thad won by roughly 7,000 votes tonight. Hinds county is roughly 75% Dem. A robo call went out stating “say no to the tea party. They hate the first black president... say no to the tea party by voting for Thad”
The call was placed mainly to african americans in MS
Here are the number from the main targeted county.. Hinds:
On June 3rd
T. Cochran (i)
65.7%
10,928
C. McDaniel
33.8%
5,621
TONIGHT:
T. Cochran (i)
72.0%
17,927
C. McDaniel
28.0%
6,962
Total vote count with 99.8% reporting:
189,355 thad
182,756 McDaniel
I will say this:
McDaniel is VERY unlikely to win a challenge and he’ll get the ‘sore loser move on give it up’ from the media and political establishment.
Smarter play is to concede and get ready for the next election.
He WON among Republican voters (see above).
Fight those local races and state GOP apparatus to make it a closed primary.
No way a challenge with 5,000 vote gap would work. I’d say that’s a 1 in 1000 shot.
That versus keeping all the political good will - everyone in the damn state knows it was stolen from him - and coming back.
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18 U.S. Code § 4 - Misprision of felonyAnd the MS RINOs by Misprision of a felony
Someone in MS needs to lead a campaing to leave Senate ballot blank, vote for Dem or write in a candidate.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) June 25, 2014
The challenge would go this way:
Did the voter who voted in the runoff vote in the primary?
YES or NO?
If YES, did they vote for the Republican candidates? If not, they should have been excluded at the poll from doing so and could be challenged now as an illegitimate vote.
Very unlikely the black polling places policed any of this unless there was a Tea Party poll watcher there - and the RINOs were fighting against allowing poll watchers.
If NO, they can cross over (at least that’s what I’ve read) and vote Republican.
You’d have to find 5,000 cases where votes were cast improperly but... even then you don’t know who they actually voted for.
So you’d have to ask for a re-election?
It’d be a mess and courts don’t want to undo election results. Very low chance of success.
McDaniel, tough as it is, needs to concede and move on keeping the good will he’s built up.
If he fights, he’ll be a ‘sore loser give it a rest move on do what’s good for the state’ guy. Plus, the general is coming up.
There’s no ‘win’ at this point other than to move on.
Go after THE PARTY within the state. Take control of that and rewrite the sleazy open primary rules.
McDaniel....show your heart..your soul....FIGHT this...
I agree - right now our bigger enemy is the Republican establishment.
He should fight, and go ‘write in’ if he loses ...
Exactly! I feel like the GOP e has stabbed conservatives in the back.
OK, I see, you’d have to prove that some voters should not have been able to vote. While it’s wrong if they were allowed to, in addition to the cries of “sore loserman”, if as you say the potential for illegal votes is greatest in the black precincts, you can add “racism” and “voter intimidation” on top of that, regardless of the falsity of the claims. And Cochran has already been telling voters that McDaniel was out to stop blacks from voting.
Better to pick a different battle, seems to me. But thanks for the detailed explanation.
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