LIVE THREAD MISSISSIPPI GOV. RACE - Barbour (R) 53% Musgrove (D) 45% (85% Reporting- AP Calls It)

11-04-03 | WKB

[WKB]

Please use this thread for comments and reports on the Mississippi Governor's Race
and all other Ms races you want to talk about.

The Polls close at 7:00 PM CST

[BlessedAmerican]

Just got home and hoped your were starting a thread...thx to all for updates....our polling place was full all day....

[lonestar]

I predict Zell Miller will be heading up a national organization of "Democrats for Bush 2004" and would do more good doing that than switching parties.

He could go into all the states that were close in 2000. His Democrat credentials are not debatable. Some of the Dem candidates can't say that.

Miller is the perfect "I didn't leave the Dem Party, the party left me" to campaign to the conservative Dems in the South and to Independents.

[deport]

http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1498702

Supposedly live returns at the above link........

[votelife]

I love Zell's position, but the cynic in me says Zell just wants to sell a lot of books and make a lot of speaking fees. Still, I don't really mind Zell doing that...

[onyx]

Oh bourbon that sounds GOOD.

[Fledermaus]

Whatever happened to the days of calling the elections at three in the afternoon:)

Florida 2000! lol

[wylenetheconservative]

I am sick of hearing this BS about intimidation. When is the last time you actually saw a white person intimidate a black person? It always seems to be the other way around to me. I was in a traffic jam getting home from Memphis this afternoon. It was suppression of white suburban voters. Let's call the Justice Department to complain.

[Fledermaus]

I agree...bring those Reagan Democrats back into the fold. This will help in Penn, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc.

[bourbon]

sweetness is back

Really?!?! Cool...
maybe the Bears won't suck so bad from now on!

[wardaddy]

That is good but in a strange oddity did not the flag vote to keep the flag fail in Madison county?

That is where the Jackson yuppies reside mostly aside from Eastover-Belhaven-Woodland Hills-Country Club area although Rankin has gentrified a lot since my day.

[Fledermaus]

I was in a traffic jam getting home from Memphis this afternoon.

That's nothing new! lol

What's going on in Memphis? Are they building or tearing down? Redoing? I wish they'd build a new bridge over the Miss river about 5 miles north of downtown so I-40 west wouldn't have to snake around from Germantown to West Memphis.

[BlessedAmerican]

MY man Al is pontificating!!!! Go Al Go....:-)

[katiebelle]

I am just stating an actual event that happened early this morning in the Delta. There were some people with a video camera taping people going in and out of the polls. They weren't news people either. I don't think it is intimidation either but it is illegal according to our voting laws.

[votelife]

maybe Zell will campaign for Bush and than Bush wins and Zell joins Bush in the administration. You know, bipartisan...

[OldFriend]

If the dem was winning we'd have known about it hours ago!

[bourbon]

was there lots of electioneering going on today on the UM campus and at the law school?

[WKB]

I can not find anything about exit polls

[afuturegovernor]

Yeah I think Haley will win. I certainly hope he does. I think he'll get about 52%. That's just my guess. If the bottom drops out of Musgrove's campaign it could be 55% for Haley.

Haley has put together a grassroots campaign that the state of Mississippi has never seen. His organization has been out of this world. Mississippi is known for sloppy campaign but Haley's was orderly from the bottom up to the top.

[onyx]

Walter was thee sweet one. May he RIP.

[sboyd]

If Rumsfield does not come back, Zell would make a very good Secretary of Defense.