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Childers wins 1st District for Democrats (Dem wins Mississippi Special Election)
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal ^ | 5/13/2008 | Associated Press

Posted on 05/13/2008 7:27:22 PM PDT by Alter Kaker

Travis Childers, elected U.S. House, District 1, Mississippi. [Note: This is an AP bulletin - nothing follows]


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 110th; childers; davis; mi2008; mississippi; travischilders
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This is the GOP's third straight special election loss, after Illinois and Louisiana. Somebody better tell the Republicans to start acting like Republicans again.
1 posted on 05/13/2008 7:27:22 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
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To: Alter Kaker
Somebody better tell the Republicans to start acting like Republicans again.

I fear the American people will be telling Repubs just that in November...

2 posted on 05/13/2008 7:29:27 PM PDT by NewLand (Pray for Jim Robinson...)
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To: Alter Kaker

OUCH...Things were so bad they brought in Cheney and even that didnt work


3 posted on 05/13/2008 7:29:44 PM PDT by skaterboy
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To: Alter Kaker

Well, we did hold on to the seat in Virginia after the Congresswoman passed away.


4 posted on 05/13/2008 7:31:54 PM PDT by Perdogg (Four years of Carter gave us 29 years of Iran; What will Hilabama give us?)
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To: skaterboy
Probably lost because they brought in Cheney. I doubt Bush & Co. has an above 50% approval in any US state. Not in Texas. Not anywhere.
5 posted on 05/13/2008 7:33:01 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: Alter Kaker; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; Norman Bates; acsuc99; CrAZyFreeper; Sybeck1; ...

As one Freeper said in another thread, it’s panic time. Our electoral prospects are not good.


6 posted on 05/13/2008 7:33:33 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Karl Marx supported free trade. Does that make him a free market conservative?)
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To: Alter Kaker

LESSON: Don’t pick incumbent congressmen from swing districts for senate appointment.


7 posted on 05/13/2008 7:34:53 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: Alter Kaker

One more thing: thank you Trent Lott. Enjoy your stupid lobbying.


8 posted on 05/13/2008 7:35:33 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: Alter Kaker

The recent congressional losses for Republicans in the special elections are VERY bad news, especially this one. If I understand right, this is equivalent to a republican winning a historically democrat seat in San Fransisco.

The Republicans have lost their way, and are reaping the absence of conservative leadership from Bush. Sadly, I have a feeling this is going to get MUCH worse before it will get any better, if it does get any better. With McCain running, the Republican party may be finished for good.


9 posted on 05/13/2008 7:35:41 PM PDT by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

We have no candidate and no philosophy in the GOP. And we haven’t seen the bottom yet.


10 posted on 05/13/2008 7:35:54 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Alter Kaker

Well, who are the Republican leaders? Who is showing leadership?


11 posted on 05/13/2008 7:35:55 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Concerned about the price of arugula)
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To: Norman Bates

This wasn’t a swing-district — it’s R+10, and the Dems who are there are awfully conservative.


12 posted on 05/13/2008 7:36:02 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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It’s not a R+10, a Republican, or even a swing district now. It’s a Democrat district. UGH.


13 posted on 05/13/2008 7:37:04 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: Alter Kaker
JACKSON - Democrat Travis Childers has won a north Mississippi congressional race, claiming a seat the Republicans have held since 1994.

Childers defeated Republican Greg Davis on Tuesday in a special election runoff. He will fill the last several months of a two-year term the GOP's Roger Wicker started in January 2007.

Republican Gov. Haley Barbour appointed Wicker to the U.S. Senate in December after Trent Lott retired.

Childers' victory marks the second time this month for a conservative Democrat to win a Deep South congressional seat that had been held by a Republican.

14 posted on 05/13/2008 7:38:39 PM PDT by NewLand (Pray for Jim Robinson...)
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“the Dems who are there are awfully conservative.”

Maybe but anyone who caucuses with Pelosi isn’t awfully conservative. They’re hiding something.


15 posted on 05/13/2008 7:38:56 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: Alter Kaker
Is it any surprise to anyone??

It is top down--and from here on out.

McCain is the Party Leader now.

Expect this all over the place.

He will have NEGATIVE COATTAILS because we are clearly abandoning "Conservative" in favor of "Me Too!", and "Big Government" and "Change" -- all recipes for disaster. The wise Republican will actually run AGAINST McCain.

I think the GOP can be rebuilt in 2009 back into a conservative party, or perhaps we will just have to make a new one.

16 posted on 05/13/2008 7:39:15 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Your Free To Vote 4 McCain. I Won't. I Don't Want To Hear Your Gripes Thru His 4 Years of RINO-ism!)
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To: Luke21

What’s shameful is that even when the Republicans had their revolution in 1994 they didn’t create as larege a majority as the Dems will have in 2009.


17 posted on 05/13/2008 7:39:29 PM PDT by Round 9
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To: KoRn; pissant

I’m no fan of McCain, but he may useful as a transitional figure. We need him to keep the Federal Judiciary safe, especially with three more Supreme Court justices likely to retire. The future of the party has to be its grass roots, not the DC Establishment. That’s how we will find our way. But McCain can hold the line in the meantime.


18 posted on 05/13/2008 7:39:29 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Karl Marx supported free trade. Does that make him a free market conservative?)
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To: Perdogg

By picking a state house delegate, and then we promptly lost the house delegate seat to the democrats.

We’ll probably lose a republican seat in Virginia in november as well.

Nobody wants to be a republican anymore.

I’ve never seen a party self-destruct so quickly.


19 posted on 05/13/2008 7:40:07 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: AmericanInTokyo

It’s Bush.


20 posted on 05/13/2008 7:40:56 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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