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GOP Stunned By Loss in Mississippi
RealClear Politics ^ | 5/14/2008 | Reid Wilson

Posted on 05/14/2008 6:19:23 AM PDT by Obadiah

In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a Democrat on Tuesday. Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Travis Childers beat out Republican candidate Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven, by a 54%-46% margin, a spread that several Republican strategists on Capitol Hill characterized as a startling wake-up call for a party in dire straits.

Voters cast ballots for the fourth time in three months for the seat, vacated when Republican Roger Wicker was appointed to fill the remainder of Senator Trent Lott's term. After winning the primary and the runoff election, Childers came within 410 votes of winning the first round of the special election against Davis on April 22, beating the Republican by a 49%-46% margin.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 110th; gop; gopcoup; gregdavis; mississippi; ms2008; rinorevolution; travischilders
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A must read. A coming train wreck. Does anybody in the GOP care? Or will we keep getting RINOs shoved down our throats? Will the GOP main plank continue to be: "a new tone" and "reaching across the aisle", and "extending our hand"? Maybe we need another Gang of 14!
1 posted on 05/14/2008 6:19:24 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Obadiah
Excellent!


Let the revolution begin.

2 posted on 05/14/2008 6:20:57 AM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: Obadiah
McCain has really energized the base, huh?

Dang RINOs.

3 posted on 05/14/2008 6:21:26 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: Obadiah

Davis wasn’t a RINO. Childers did run as a conservative. Hopefully with Obama on the ticket in November this might get pulled back on our side, but who knows.


4 posted on 05/14/2008 6:22:06 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (Ronald Reagan Fought Regulation, John McCain Brought Regulation...)
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To: Obadiah

If you think mayor Davis is a rino, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. Davis is about as conservative as you can get, I know him personally. He would have been a great addition to the House.

To blame “rinos” on this loss is totally absurd. The country is pissed at Republicans for a multitude of reasons, some relating to rino politics (spending, immigration) some not (Iraq). The economy is also a big factor.

Wake up. The MS loss had nothing to do with RINO politics. It had everything to do with Mississippians wanting a generic “change” of brands.

Uh oh.


5 posted on 05/14/2008 6:24:24 AM PDT by Tulane
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To: Obadiah

I think there have been three GOP losses in special elections just recently to democrats....... This one in MS, the one in LA around Baton Rouge which Woody Jenkins lost and one other I can’t remember. Not good news for the GOP even at the local levels it seems.


6 posted on 05/14/2008 6:24:35 AM PDT by deport ( -- Cue Spooky Music --)
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To: Obadiah

Boener and Blunt have to go in the House. They shoul have never been elected to their slots after the 2006 train wreck.

BTW, who in the heck is the Chair of the RNC???? Still can’t get an answer to that one.


7 posted on 05/14/2008 6:25:15 AM PDT by The South Texan (The Drive By Media is America's worst enemy and American people don't know it.)
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To: Obadiah

Republicans congress people have no one to blame but themselves, they need to show their conservative values, and more people would support them.. look at the vote on drilling for gas yesterday in the senate.. I think 7 Rinos voted against it...when every one in their states are feeling the pinch when they gas up..


8 posted on 05/14/2008 6:25:23 AM PDT by JoanneSD (illegals represented without taxation.. Americans taxed without representation)
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To: Obadiah

Republicans had better unite behind a clearly stated conservative agenda or face bitter defeat in ‘08. The GOP needs to start standing for getting spending under control and tax cuts or it will lose it’s butt.


9 posted on 05/14/2008 6:25:30 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: Tulane

I live in Southaven. Davis is a good mayor.


10 posted on 05/14/2008 6:27:00 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (Ronald Reagan Fought Regulation, John McCain Brought Regulation...)
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To: Obadiah

“The leadership aide suggested that a former NRCc chairman, Virginia Rep. Tom Davis, could take on a larger role in the coming months.”

Yeah, THAT’LL help!

What a bunch of DUMBA—ES.


11 posted on 05/14/2008 6:27:03 AM PDT by WayneS (HELP! My beloved Commonwealth is becoming MARYLAND!)
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To: Sybeck1

Yes, Childers did run as a conservative, but this is more focusing on the very serious problems with the GOP at the national level. The GOP has foolishly allowed their brand name to be compromised by RINOs and the self serving types.

The RNC coffers are thread bare. There is a grassroots revolt and it is showing up in the form of the lack of donations to the RNC. Just wait until October when there are no ground troops for door-to-door type activity for McCain or few others down the ticket.

The GOP is broken and as long as they continue the present course there will be a train wreck, and maybe that’s not such a bad thing.


12 posted on 05/14/2008 6:27:14 AM PDT by Obadiah (I dream of the day when chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned!)
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It had everything to do with Mississippians wanting a generic “change” of brands.

That's why McCain still has some chance to win the Presidency, because he has been so effective in distancing himself from the tainted GOP brand.

For the rest of the party, a wholesale purge is coming.

13 posted on 05/14/2008 6:27:49 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To: deport

The other loss was for Speaker Dennis Hastert’s seat which had been Republican for about 100 years. This is serious.


14 posted on 05/14/2008 6:28:26 AM PDT by Obadiah (I dream of the day when chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned!)
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To: Tulane

I don’t understand why people are mad at the economy. Unemployment isn’t high, taxes are down, and the stock market is holding it’s own - the only big problem I see is the price of gas and who do we have to blame for that? The Democrats.


15 posted on 05/14/2008 6:28:32 AM PDT by Aria (NO RAPIST ENABLER FOR PRESIDENT!!!)
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To: Tulane
Voter burnout plus this was a non=partisan election. The Dems radio spots alone would have made me vote for Davis. This seat can be salvaged in Nov. with a lot of work.
16 posted on 05/14/2008 6:28:44 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: Sybeck1
Childers did run as a conservative...but....just like Eric Powell did for the State senator seat, mislead the voters. (Eric Powell's first law was a gun control effort) I'd bet the first thing Childers does is sides with the liberals in Congress and puts the screws to conservatives. His closest allies are dishonest or have been convicted criminals. Get ready.....
17 posted on 05/14/2008 6:28:44 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Always Right
The GOP needs to start standing for getting spending under control and tax cuts or it will lose it’s butt.

Or they could focus on the threat of Global Warming. Maybe that will help.

18 posted on 05/14/2008 6:29:15 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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To: Tulane

This is not good. Hopefully Davis sticks around for the rebound.


19 posted on 05/14/2008 6:29:28 AM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: Obadiah

Among other things, Childress had better sounding negative ads and ran a ton more of them - including during Rush Limbaugh’s show. The DNCC, I should say, they ran the ads so that Childress could claim to be above the fray.


20 posted on 05/14/2008 6:30:42 AM PDT by Ingtar (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery. - ejonesie22)
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