Posted on 04/23/2008 5:29:43 AM PDT by Impy
Democrat Travis W. Childers led the field and just narrowly missed the majority vote he needed for an outright victory in a special election held Tuesday in Mississippi’s 1st District. Childers now moves on to a May 13 runoff with Republican Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven, in a district that has a conservative lean and usually votes strongly Republican in contests for federal office.
Childers received 49.4 percent, just short of the 50 percent threshold, according to complete but unofficial returns. Davis received 46.3 percent of the vote and trailed Childers by more than 2,000 votes, staving off elimination only by running up a margin of more than 8,000 votes in his home base of DeSoto County. Four other candidates were on the ballot, on which party affiliations were not listed, and they combined to total the remaining 4.3 percent of the vote.
Childers now faces a three-week runoff campaign with an uncertain outcome. But his first-place finish marks the latest startling surprise for the Democratic Party, and the latest setback for a national Republican Party that has struggled to regain its footing since its losses in the 2006 congressional elections overturned its majorities in both the House and the Senate.
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I’d say it’s more like Republicans forgetting where they come from. Pork, more spending, democrat style corruption, not communicating the Pelosi disasters, etc.
Like the article said, Republicans are running candidates who have abandoned conservative principles and Democrats are running "conservative" candidates, or in other words, Democrats who are more "conservative" than the Republicans. They may not be what we would call a conservative, but they are more conservative than the mush the Republicans are running. We saw this in 2006 and the Republican party whose "leadership" seems to have fewer and fewer conservatives, just didn't learn
I live in the area, and know for a fact that Greg Davis is a real conservative.
You have a great opportunity, then, to support a candidate who is local and a conservative. Good luck!
Would that be the Sammy Davis Jr. Caucus?
LOL! I’m going to use that the next time Cohen comes on the radio.
Well, according to the news, Childers has been endorsed by Obama - if that answers your question.
I, also, live in the district. I can tell you honestly that neither Childers nor Davis are attractive. They both went negative very early (and I mean mud-slinging). And, being more honest than tactful, both of the candidates “look” crooked. I know that is something they can’t help, but it is a fact. Davis won the Republican primary simply b/c he is the mayor of Southaven (one of the most populous and the fastest-growing part of the state). And in a special primary, few “regular joes” are paying attention and even less vote. Davis’s advantage in the Republican primary was simply that Southaven vote - it put him over the top by simple mathematics.
Has Tennessee held their primary election yet?
Cohen slipped by in ‘06 because the black vote splintered and he ended up with a plurality of the vote.
Is there a unified black challenger to Cohen this year?
And are you serious that Cohen is trying to actually gain membership in the Congressional Black Caucus?
If true, I hope they have the common sense to deny him membership.
There will be an election in Baton Rouge on May 3, and the Democrat stands a good chance of taking the seat formerly held by Richard H. Baker (R). Woody Jenkins is the Republican candidate.
Actually Steve got in because there just wasn't anyone else that had any credibility at all, and no so far there is only the Ford boys, not Ford Jr. that makes any noise about running.
And finally, yes, Congressman Cohen tried desperately to become a member of the Black Caucus. He panders to the blacks like crazy. It’s the only way that he can keep his job.
Greg Davis is a good man, and even Hayley Barbour was on our radio live begging folks to come out and vote for him.
While the Democrats are running good-ol-boy, gun-lovin’, church-goin’, tobacky-spittin’ redneck conservatives in the South, the GOP is running mealy-mouthed, limp-wristed, flipboys.
This is really, really bad.
Part of the problem is demographics. This district has always elected Tupelo-area candidates, but the GOP nominee (Greg Davis) hails from the Memphis suburbs, and narrowly defeated a former Tupelo mayor in the runoff. Travis Childers has managed to appeal to those voters.
“Really, really bad” would’ve been an outright Childers victory. Haley needs to get up there and barnstorm with Davis out in the rural areas (obviously, McCullough was the stronger candidate for the rural parts — and this battle is geographical and we need to make it completely ideological). We need to tie Snobama, Pelosi and the pro-terrorist moonbats around Childers’s neck until he chokes on it. It’s not over yet.
Unbelievably, I just googled hickocrat and my post is the only result.
Vote for me I live nearer to you than him!! That is so idiotic.
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