Posted on 11/08/2020 10:28:16 PM PST by 11th_VA
Mississippi Democrats must be looking for a Plan C after Tuesday’s disappointing election results.
Mike Espy ran a well-financed campaign — the best funded by a Democrat in the state’s history — as he embraced the national Democratic Party and its leaders in his challenge of incumbent U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. His goal was to put together a strong ground game to attract new, presumably progressive voters to the polls and to run sleek campaign ads trying to convince white suburban, primarily women voters to cross over and support him. He garnered roughly 42% of the vote in unofficial and incomplete returns against Hyde-Smith.
... Despite losing, both Hood and Espy gave Democrats hope in the past two elections. Espy won a respectable 46.4% of the vote in his 2018 special election against Hyde-Smith and Hood garnered 46.8% in his gubernatorial campaign against Reeves. Both won a few majority white counties – an accomplishment in these days for a Mississippi Democrat. On Tuesday night, it appears the only majority white county Espy won was Oktibbeha, home of Mississippi State University.
Espy will finish with more votes than he garnered in 2018, but a lower percentage of the vote...
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
Did he get **real votes** or mail in ballots?
Big difference
The people of Mississippi have long been on to his game. The fact that he got any votes at all is a sad reminder of the racial divide in the state. Most black people vote on skin color alone and if you look at the election results the breakdown is almost exactly along racial lines.
Clinton appointed him secretary of agriculture where he went about collecting “gifts” from anyone that wanted his ear.
Democrats won big with initiative 47. Don’t be fooled.
Ping
We seem to be able to trust our election system in MS.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.