Posted on 12/19/2007 4:17:45 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
It’s not science, but a recent poll of 600 Mississippi voters shows U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker of Tupelo might do pretty well in a head-to-head Senate race against former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove.
Conducted Dec. 10-12 by Research 2000 of Olney, Md., the telephone poll was conducted before former Attorney General Mike Moore took his name out of contention, but its results show Wicker would beat the charismatic Moore and Musgrove, if they were pitted for the Senate race.
The margin of error is 4 percentage points, and black voters may have been under-surveyed. They make up 34 percent of the electorate, says the man who commissioned it.
(Excerpt) Read more at djournal.com ...
So Wicker is slightly ahead of the better-known Musgrove. Good news.
Wicker is my last choice here. I’d rather see Pickering (father or son) in the seat or Amy Tuck.
Mississippi ping!
I’ve read recently that Maubus is entertaining the idea of running.
Don’t ask me where I read it, though.
I can’t remember for the life of me!
Agreed. I am pulling for Amy myself, just because I like her style. The Pickering boys will do nicely though.
Wicker is my rep and he is a good one. I’m for him!
Do you think Harry Reid will get involved to increase his membership from 51 to 52?
Wait until liberal Democrat Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá, the governor of Puerto Rico for whom Wicker cut ads in 2004 (and supported in op-ed columns), returns the favor. Of course, Acevedo-Vilá may have to cut ads for him from prison, since he and/or his closest advisers are about to be indicted by the feds for corruption. The fact that Wicker would support a candidate that not only is a liberal Democrat but also openly anti-American and closely allied with the most radical separatist and Marxist elements in Puerto Rico should make him UNACCEPTABLE to conservatives in Mississippi and nationwide.
I hope Chip Pickering or Amy Tuck get the nomination, because if Wicker is our nominee Mississippi will end up with a Senator that is even more worthless than Lott.
I'd rather have somebody who's been a Republican more than four years, and who didn't switch just to keep from getting taken out in a DemocRAT primary.
I have only recently learned that Wicker is not much of a Republican. He has a very Democrat district and was the successor to porker Jaimie Whitten.
That’s not a Democrat district. There’s only one Democrat district in MS, and that’s the one that racist rodent Bennie Thompson occupies. All the other 3 are Republican, with the Coastal district sending the erratic Dem Gene Taylor, and that district is hyper-Republican. Jamie Whitten, as with Sonny Montgomery, held Republican-trending or leaning seats for decades on the strength of their incumbency (ditto with Taylor, who needs to go). In fact, in 1967, Montgomery succeeded the 1st Republican Congressmember (Prentiss Walker) from MS since Walter Denny switched parties in 1896.
Well, TR is correct that Wicker’s district is historically Democrat and is the least Republican of the white-majority CDs despite having a relatively low black population. Desoto County just south of Memphis is heavily Republican in the suburban South mode, but there are more white Democrats in Northeast Mississippi (a term that would exclude Desoto County) than anywhere else in the state. I believe that Musgrave handily carried NE MS in his two gubernatorial runs.
No, he’s not.
Here’s a county by county breakdown from the Barbour-Musgrove contest:
http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=28&year=2003&f=0&off=5&elect=0
That 12 counties which is normally called “Northeast Mississippi” went Republican 7-5
Musgrove did carry the area during the pathetic Parker campaign though.
In the Fordyce-Molpus race, the GOP won 8 counties out of 12 and the same thing happened 4 years before that.
the majority of hose 12 counties have gone GOP in every election since 1984 in presidential races. Usually with only 2 exceptions. (at least one of those two lightly populated, can’t say about the other)
Whitten stayed on 10 years past his expiration date simply because he’d bought so many votes in the past with his App. Committee power.
It would be a STUNNING development if Wicker’s seat went Dem.
I stand corrected. Governor Barbour carried MS-01 53.48% to 44.87%, which is nearly a 1% better showing than he did statewide (by comparison, President Bush ran 3% stronger in the MS-01 in 2004 than he did statewide, and 1% stronger in the district in 2000 than he did statewide). Even if one excluded DeSoto County, Gov. Barbour would have carried the CD 51.56% to 46.75%.
I just hope the Democrats don’t run the Northern MS version of Gene Taylor.
I don’t think such a man exists. Every Dem in power up here owes his political soul to Billy McCoy. You can’t pass a Steve Holland off as a Taylor.
the only Dem I can think of up here that might worry me is Bill Minor.
He’s not an offensive sort, if it weren’t for that damned “D” next to his name.
(not the blowhard columnist, a different guy)
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