Childers wins 1st District for Democrats (Dem wins Mississippi Special Election)

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal ^ | 5/13/2008 | Associated Press

[Alter Kaker]

Travis Childers, elected U.S. House, District 1, Mississippi. [Note: This is an AP bulletin - nothing follows]

[Philly Nomad]

Not true, every republican marched to GWB’s tune from 2000 to 2006. (Heck even the Dims pretty much did everything Bush said). Anybody who disageed with the President was declared a RINO (if Republican) or suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome (everybody else). So other than McCain, the rest of the party has the stink of Bush’s incompetence.

[dforest]

Can anything be done to keep McCain from speaking at the Republican National Convention this year?

LOL, I was thinking the same thing. McCain and his type, are the reason for this demoralizing season.

[nwrep]

Why waste GOP clock on somebody who is not even a Republican.

I think sometimes Freepers get caught up in party labels. This is not about someone who is a Republican and who is Democrat. This is about someone who is right (McCain) and one who is wrong (H. Obama) for the nation.

Also, the clock is an absurd idea. You are assuming Obama's policies will be unpopular. With the bully pulpit, he will be able to convince people his policies are exactly what they need. The end result is an endless nightmare for America.

Plus there is the whole issue about the SCOTUS. I trust McCain's panel (led by Ted Olson) to make the right picks as opposed to Obama's judiciary panel (led by Cornell West).

God Bless McCain. God Bless America.

[Uncle Miltie]

"he actually takes the argument off the table for the elections"

Bookmarking for subsequent refutation by events.

[Norman Bates]

Yeah but NCLB was used very much against Bush and probably with some effect. The Democrats would constantly whine (even now) how he created a mandate but didn’t fully fund it. Now if the Dems ever seize the handles they WILL fully fund it - to make Bush and the rest of us blush.

[Norman Bates]

True. It’s the media. They hunted down and ruthlessly “killed” Nixon. Willy got off light.

[Alter Kaker]

Another "safe" seat that was safe a week ago but now isn't is Liddy Dole's seat in North Carolina. All of a sudden she's neck and neck in the polls and this race wasn't ever supposed to be competitive. We will likely lose Virginia, Colorado, New Hampshire and New Mexico. Colorado is the only one I see us maybe winning, but that's going to be difficult given Obamarama at the top of the ticket (a plus for the Dems in CO).

Depending on the environment, we may lose Oregon, Minnesota (although Franken is quickly becoming a joke) and Alaska (where Ted Stevens is actually in big trouble). Storm clouds are brewing in Texas and North Carolina, although Cornyn has so much cash that I'm not too worried yet.

The one race that has so far failed to materialize is RINO Susan Collins' seat in Maine, where she has continued to lead by a wide margin despite a strong challenge.

[Theodore R.]

Since LBJ, both TX senators have usually been recognized nationally, but this is not true of Cornyn, who is nearly an invisible senator. He is also a former attorney general and Texas Supreme Court justice, but most don’t know anything about him.

[Alter Kaker]

The polls don't look great for Cornyn -- he's neck and neck with that clown Noriega. However, the environment in Texas is still decent for any Republican and Cornyn has raised a heck of a lot of money.

Running statewide in Texas takes a lot of money and Cornyn has it and Noriega doesn't. If Noriega starts to raise money, then I would worry.

[Clintonfatigued]

“If you don’t know that free trade is conservative, ie, freedom enhancing, you don’t know much about being a conservative.”

You missed my tag line.

[Clintonfatigued]

“what are Roberts and Alito”

They are John Roberts and Samuel Alito, justices on the United States Surprme Court who were appointed by George W. Bush. Bush chose well in this case.

[tampacon]

Good One!

[tampacon]

I agree!

[tampacon]

I agree! The damage he has done to the GOP.

[tampacon]

Good point!

[ubaldus]

no nightmare is endless. The next decade will be slow for the US economy, with economic growth in 1.5-2.5% range year after year. No govt can be popular for long in unfavorable macroeconomic conditions, and they are likely to be unfavorable. This will be similar to the EU situation in the last 20 years (see the chart). Re SCOTUS - Scalia and Kennedy are healthy enough, and should last through 2016. The rest of the conservative SCOTUS wing is under 60. So, in the next 8 years all the retirements will be on the liberal wing. There is no chance that the Dems in the Senate will let McCain appoint anybody to the right of O'Connor. Probably, only another Souter or two.

[freekitty]

I am not voting for any incumbent.

[JLS]

Karl Marx was a minor classical economist in the line of Smith to Ricardo to John Stuart Mill. He naturally favored free trade which was one of the earliest classical ideas shown by David Ricardo. [Some what like one might argue Keynes was not a Keynesian, in some sense Marx was not a Marxist.]

Marx was of course wrong on capital and many other of his ideas. Economics at that time was trying to understand value theory and Marx’s idea was one of several dead ends or incomplete answers. None of Marx’s mistakes transfer to David Ricardo from whose writings Marx learned that free trade was wealth and welfare enhancing.

[buck jarret]

It wasn’t the media’s fault that Nixon thought it would be a good idea to tape-record everything. Clinton isn’t that dumb.

[buck jarret]

Sad that Cornyn has a competitive race