[SoFloFreeper]

Mississippi, can McDaniel beat Childers?

[SC_Pete]

Thad Cochran: Just another example of the corrupting influence of incumbency and of the permanent political class. Lamar, Miss Lindsey, McLame, Little Mitchie, Boner-the list is endless.

Article V. is the only answer.

[who knows what evil?]

76 years old? Let it go. It’s time for fresh blood and new ideas.

[txrefugee]

“Cochran, by contrast, did not appear to address his supporters.”

No surprise. It was after 10:00 PM.

[Rummyfan]

The state senator from Ellisville, Miss., a city of approximately 5,000, has cast himself as the true conservative in the race and sought to characterize Cochran as a historical relic...

Relic? He's been in Washington 42 years (and what has he accomplished?)! He's an effing dinosaur who needs to go!

Sick and tired of these long-term incumbents who think they are entitled to lifetime jobs on our dime(s). Cochran can go be a greeter at a casino in Biloxi for all I care (he's probably better suited to that work anyway).

[JoeDetweiler]

“...Mississippi election law forbids anybody who voted in Tuesday’s Democratic primary from voting in the runoff election of the opposite party...”

Does Mississippi have what it takes to enforce this? If not...it could be trouble.

[twister881]

NR long ago joined the GOPe/Rove wing of the RINO party.

[latina4dubya]

Mississippi heavyweights like former governor Haley Barbour and his sons, Austin and Henry; the state’s current governor, Phil Bryant; and former Senate majority leader Trent Lott all stepped in to boost Cochran.

this is pathetic... no one in the GOP should try to boost Cochran or any GOP candidate in a PRIMARY election who has been in office that long... it is sickening... if you cannot support new blood, then at the very least, stay out of it and let the chips fall where they may...

[TBP]

Cochran first ran for the House after serving as AA to a Democrat member.

[Viennacon]

“insurgent forces, though, have put up a fight in only four major races: in Kentucky, where they tried and failed to unseat Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell; in Idaho, where they attempted unsuccessfully to oust representative Mike Simpson; in Nebraska, where they defeated the establishment-backed candidate, Shane Osborn; and in Mississippi, where McDaniel which a victory now hangs in the balance.”

Patently false. We also have T.W. Shannon in Oklahoma who is likely to beat establishment James Lankford to take Coburn’s seat. We lost in Alabama with Chad Mathis and in North Carolina where Greg Brannon lost. But we have forced a runoff in Georgia with Barry Loudermilk! And also Mia Love is heading to the House from Utah.

[DoodleDawg]

So who will the Carey voters go to? One would assume McDaniel since they didn’t vote for Cochran buy it’s hard to tell. Carey didn’t have a website so we don’t know a whole lot about his positions. He runs some sort of prison ministry. He’s against Obamacare - so are both the other candidated. He’s for flat tax, doing away with the IRS and EPS, and a couple of other things that might tend his supporters towards McDaniel. He’s on record as saying he doesn’t plan to vote for either of his opponents assuming they won, so maybe his people will just stay home?

[Prince of Space]

Wow, Stuart Stevens is advising Cochran’s campaign? Good luck with that, Thad, lol.

[WKB]

Mississippi has tHAD enough ping Well half of us anyway!!!

[StormEye]

"Picking off Cochran, who has served in the Senate for 38 years, ..."

Thad Cochran -- a prime exhibit in the museum of the fossilized Republican Party.

[Christie at the beach]

Thad really needs to Go! Turn the page with him.

[centurion316]

If McDaniel pulls it off, he can thank an influx of money from outside groups that marked Cochran as the most vulnerable establishment-GOP incumbent. McDaniel received over $5.2 million from groups like the Club for Growth and the Senate Conservatives Fund, compared with approximately $238,000 in individual contributions, a ratio of more than 20 to one. Cochran also received support from out-of-state groups: Organizations such as the National Association of Realtors and the American Hospital Association spent over $2.7 million to support him, while he raised nearly $700,000 from individual donors. Cochran’s ratio of out-of-state to in-state money was far lower — approximately four to one — but more than a third of Cochran’s individual contributions came from registered lobbyists in the Washington, D.C., area, including those employed by the liberal Podesta Group, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics in late February.

National Review is doing their best to put this in a positive light for Cochran, but if you read between the lines here, it's clear that Cochran is bought and paid for by liberal lobbyists who could care less about Mississippi. What Cochran gets out of his support to liberals is a a bid wad of pork to distribute to the Haley Barbour insiders.

[Oatka]

Cochran advisers were predicting the senator will wind up with a lead when the last votes are counted.

Uncle Joe: "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."

[Iced Tea Party]

Cochran, by contrast, did not appear to address his supporters.

What, and interrupt his Matlock marathon?

[AmericanExceptionalist]

A runoff election gives McDaniel a second chance to pick off the 76-year-old Cochran. He has the wind at his back: Turnout in runoff elections is historically low and tends to favor challengers, whose supporters tend to be more motivated.

I think there is probably a great deal of truth in this observation; so I would favor McDaniel in the runoff election.

In many states, it would probably be a safer bet to go with the establishment conservative, in order to win the necessary swing votes. (After all, merely winning a primary is a phyrric victory if one cannot win the general election.) However, Mississippi is a deep red state; so I doubt that the Democratic challenger will prevail, in November, against either Cochran or McDaniel.

[Steven Scharf]

“Tea Party Forces A Runoff in Mississippi: McDaniel and Cochran fail to win a majority”

Headline wrong and misleading. The third candidate in the race forced the runoff as he got more votes than the differnce of the top wo candidates.