What is your best guess as to turnout in Nov. if the race stays as is and it is Cochran
on the ticket? I looked at the last two Senate races, Wicker in 12 and Cochran in 08
and the general election saw over 1.2 million votes in each. Granted they were presidential
years and thus a stronger draw I’d assume.
Wicker got a little over 700,000 votes or 57.14% in 12. In his special election in 08 he
got just under 700,ooo or 54.96%. On the same ballot in 08 Cochran got over 760,000 votes or 61.44%.
It seems the turnout is much larger in the general elections but there was a governor’s
on the ballot in each of those years. Do you have any feel for the situation this
time as to turnout, etc.?
I don’t really know. I believe this fiasco caused by the cochran camp, including the NRSC, will encourage the democrats and they will spend a lot of money now believing they may be able to pick up what had been a safe Republican senate seat. I have heard of a few who have talked about voting for the democrat and many who are talking either not voting in the race or writing in. It’s to soon for me to predict, I need to see if there’s an organized effort for a “write in”. I will not vote for a democrat or cochran.