Posted on 06/25/2014 7:19:34 AM PDT by topher
A BAD NIGHT FOR DEMOCRATS If you can divine a national trend from a runoff election in Mississippi, be our guest. But rather than pondering the motives of 3,188 Mississippi voters who made the difference in a bitter, hyper-local election, there’s a more useful consideration today. What’s at stake nationally this year is control of the U.S. Senate, and Republican chances of taking the majority went up significantly Tuesday night.
[During New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel’s victory speech, the stage nearly collapsed. Rangel asked “heavier people on the stage… to take safety over ego” and step down.]
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Here we go. More happy talk.
let’s talk in November. I read all these “opinions” before the 2012 election talking about the collapsing Dims, ODimwit can’t be re-elected, blah, blah, blah.
Oh, for crying out loud, what a load. Stirewalt is shilling like a champ. Last night was JACKPOT for the Democrats. Name me another time in recent memory where Democrats chose the candidate for BOTH parties in an election?
Essentially, Democrats have ensured that nobody will resist them in Washington. Pathetic.
How did the chances of taking the Senate go up? Unless there is no Dim running in Mississippi, we just lost that “sure thing” state.
WRONG.
The Democrats decided the race in MS. The RINO won. Conservatives were screwed over.
Rangel will still be around.
They got what they wanted.
The commentator argues that the path to GOP victory in the Senate will be the selection of “temperate” candidates. Not the sort most people here would care to vote for, perhaps, but we all know it worked perfectly when they nominated Romney.
How can you not respect the Republicans. It is always someone else’s fault.
How many states do the R’s have to pick up to take over the Senate? Which states look good for the R’s to pick up? Which are we at risk of losing (like MS now)?
I don’t think that McDaniel worked hard enough. Cochran had McCain campaign for him the day before the election. Why didn’t McDaniel have Sarah Palin or Ted Cruz the day before? Because McDaniel thought he had it in the bag and didn’t have to work until the last minute before election results. You cannot go into election day thinking you are winning. You have to go in thinking you are 40 points behind. Cochran although low did work hard until the bitter end. Going to the churches was a good move for him. Why didn’t McDaniel go to the churches? They didn’t even have to the African American churches, but any churches? Why didn’t McDaniel counter Brett Farve with a conservative Quarterback like Drew Brees? Because McDaniel’s was measuring the drapes of his new office, that is why. Arrogance never won an election. Hard work does always.
Its tragic, these little analyses. I am sure Rangels’ opponent was a scumbag, but this is Charlie Rangel, a criminal. He won. What does that say about our Republic?
And the mentally unfit Thad Cochran was the Democrats choice, so how do they lose exactly? Stirewalt is an idiot.
Rangel is a black supremacist.
“Arrogance never won an election”
No, but cheating sure helps.
Democrats are now stealing Republican elections.
If they actually think that Democrats are going to vote again for Cochran in November, then they are out of their minds. Those were democrat machine votes. That machine will not work for Cochran come November.
McDaniels should mount a write-in campaign after this treachery on the part of establishment republicans.
He did work hard. This was a voter fraud issue.
Well we have 45 to 55. So we need 6 seats. Mississippi will still be red in November. But that is not a pick up so we still need 6 to win.
He can do a write-in campaign.
This was a voter fraud issue.
Allowing Democrats to vote in a primary is fraud?
No, but cheating sure helps.
And how did he cheat?
Precisely, and only a Karl Rovian hack like Chris Stirewalt would try to spin this as ‘a bad night for Democrats’. They got both the candidates they voted for!
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