There is no doubt that Cochran won the runoff via dirty pool and I don’t fault McDaniel for being angry. That being said, open runoffs are the law in Mississippi and contesting the results would be counter productive. As I pointed out to a fellow Freeper a while back and as Ann Coulter pointed out recently, McDaniel will be tainted as a sore loser if he doesn’t let this go. He can push for closed primaries, which wouldn be a good idea, but otherwise he needs to let this go.
Political historians on FR may recall the Alabama Democrat Gubenatorial runoff in 1986. In that runoff, conservative AG Charlie Graddick narrowly edged liberal LG Bill Baxley after appealing to voters who had voted in the Republican primary. Baxley appealed the decision to the state Supreme Court, who overturned the runoff. The state party named Baxley as the nominee, but he was tagged a sore loser and everyone was suprirsed when Guy Hunt won the general election, ruining Baxley’s once-promising career.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WAgPs9To-8
Incidentally, Graddick is now a Republican and a state judge.
I’d be all for McDaniel’s challenge if I thought it would succeed, no matter how it made him look. But I can’t see that happening. I would appear the rat State Supreme Court violated the law on behalf of Baxley back in ‘86.
Conservatives in MS need to lobby HARD to close the primaries.
I support McDaniel 100%. This was fraud, pure and simple.
I am a McDaniel voter and I wasn’t him to press on to show what length the establishment will go to win dirty. If Cochran is on the ballot I am voting Childers. It is the only positive way to remove Cochran. Staying home and voting third party are not a way to get him out
that was over 20 years ago things are totally different here..dirty campaigning
The fact that you had to, and did, reach back 30 years shows how out of touch you are.
Politics has changed a lot even in just the past 10 years, let alone 30.
I totally disagree. I'm not a political scholar or historical buff but I personally think it's worth any price to fight the fraud.
This crap about someone's political future if they fight is why we're in the mess we're in. Just like they talked Coleman into conceding and Franken giving us Obamacare, nothing good can come from putting one's own political future above the will of the people and integrity of elections.
Never give up, Chris!