[Viennacon]

Onward to victory. My prediction is Cochran refuses to debate as media calls grow louder. He loses credibility, and then loses the runoff by 8 points.

[Resettozero]

Wow! It sure is a good thing Santorum showed up to give McDaniels that little extra oomph over Cochran!

[tennmountainman]

Looks like Boss Hogg(Haley Barbour) and his clan could not gin up
enough votes in Hinds County to overtake McDaniel. Even a 3 hour delay
in reporting the final 25% of Hinds County, which gave them plenty of time
to gin up votes, wasn’t enough.

We will soon find out by the type of ads Boss Hogg runs against McDaniel
in the runoff if the GOP really wants a majority in the senate or has been
lying all along.

[chajin]

Who is Thomas Carey going to endorse? :-)

[House Atreides]

For this runoff (as for any other future federal office runoffs), Mississippi is using “ranked choice ballots” for overseas and out-of-state military voters to use. See details in the linked article. Our military voters need to clearly understand that they received those “if needed” runoff ballots at the same time they got their primary ballot.

If they have not completed and returned that “2nd (if needed runoff) ballot” it along with their primary ballot they need to complete it and mail it back NOW.

Be sure to remind all your military and overseas constitutional conservative Mississippians about this. THESE MILITARY AND OVERSEAS VOTERS WILL NOT BE RECEIVING ANOTHER “RUN OFF” BALLOT - THEY MUST USE THE 2ND BALLOT (RANKED VOTING) THEY RECEIVED IN THE SAME MAILING AS THEIR PRIMARY BALLOT. I don’t know for sure but even if they didn’t mail their primary ballot back, they likely could still return their 2nd “ranked voting” ballot and it would count in the runoff.

http://www.fairvote.org/research-and-analysis/blog/overseas-voters-from-5-states-to-use-ranked-choice-voting-ballots-in-2014-congressional-election/

[1010RD]

Thomas Carey spoiler.

[TomGuy]

To Mississippians:

Would the Carey voters tend to go for Cochran or or McDaniel in the run-off?

It looks like McDaniel only needed 1702 more votes to attain the magic 50%+1.

[Shugee]

The general pattern in Texas for runoffs is that a strong tea party candidate has a better chance of winning because the tea party voters are more tenacious in showing up to vote. Runoffs typically have low voter turnout. Texas had only about 3.5 percent turnout. If Senator John Cornyn had a viable opponent and had been forced into a runoff, he would have lost.

[ridesthemiles]

With these results so very close, could votes get thrown out that were ‘provisional’ and those voters do NOT supply the affidavit needed as described above?

IF Cochran voters did this type of voting & they don’t do the necessary follow-up, could it swing the results to McDaniel before the run-off is required???

Just asking.........There is only a 1386 vote difference, and how many ‘provisional’ votes did Cochran get???