That's accurate.
Jacoby has been the Boston Globe's resident conservative for many years. The illustration makes him look much younger than he actually is.
I interpret jacoby is saying that these democrats got out and voted to reach across the aisle and join with republicans so we can all get along and that this is a good thing. While we know many of them and their leaders were paid to turnout, they were incensed by unfounded racial charges now the naacp and bennie thompson are demanding major federal spending as well as Voter ID being rescinded as further payment. These 40 thousand democrats will be back with their party in November and laughing about the turmoil and destruction in the republican party. The blame however is not with the democrats, it is with the RNSC, RNC, Mississippi and national gop, the Cochran campaign and thad’s handlers, the barbours and joe nosef the chairman of the Mississippi republican party.