Posted on 06/25/2014 12:13:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
After last night's defiant not-a-concession speech, the Tea Party's Chris McDaniel doesn't seem willing to let his Mississippi Senate seat dreams go. If he does decide to go the legal route, he'll likely start with Hinds County, the majority black county where Cochran gained thousands of votes.
In 24 mostly black counties voter turnout increased by 39.4 percent, but none of those counties gave Sen. Thad Cochran as many votes as Hinds, which is 69.8 percent black. There, voter turnout increased by 49.57 percent according to the Clarion Ledger's Sam Hall.
But in the chart above you can see that Hinds is an outlier, the same way DeSoto County (73.4 percent white) is for McDaniel. Given Sen. Cochran's outreach to the black and heavily Democratic community, and McDaniel's complaint about "a Republican primary that's decided by liberal Democrats," he'll likely start there.
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Something that moved them to Democrat levels of ballot stuffing.
The GOP-e is seemingly a criminal operation.
It wasn’t outreach, it was race baiting, and calling the GOP base “racists”.
The only remedy is that each chamber is the final judge of its membership. The Senate could refuse to seat Cochran if he is so tainted that he hurts the entire institution.
That's not likely to happen.
-PJ
Could the Senate refuse to seat Thad Cochran, presuming he wins the general election in November 2014?
It’s not Democrat race card - it’s Cochran race card.
No, he’ll get slaps on the back and many greetings of “Well done, Sir, well done!”
Any semblance of cooperation is OVER. McDaniels will gain a lot of respect when he shows he doesn't play the game with the ptb. We want someone who will FIGHT for what's right!
JMHO
Does the GOP expect conservatives to forget Thad’s race baiting in November? Did they decide it was better to lose the seat altogether than for McDaniel’s to win?
On what basis? That the man he defeated is butt hurt and mad that he didn’t think of reaching out to anyone eligible to vote in the runoff. Cochran courting Democrats by emphasizing his record is smart politics. Voter turnout for the runoff was up 57,000 from the primary. When was the last time you heard of any election in which more voters turned out for a runoff than for the primary. Cochran’s camp sought out every vote that was available. Mississippi is nearly 40 percent African-American. They can put you in office or they can keep you out. Frankly, I’ve never understood why anyone in Mississippi would vote against Cochran. If the Republicans retake the senate, he will be the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Voters in the other 49 states would give their left nut to have one of their senators in the same position.
Specifically for that reason, I have long advocated the death penalty, subsequent to a very speedy trial, very publicly performed and widely broadcast, for voter fraud and voter registration fraud.
If these treasonous people are not permanently stopped, there will be a war, and many more, along with many innocents, will perish.
Does the GOP expect conservatives to forget Thad’s race baiting in November? Did they decide it was better to lose the seat altogether than for **McDaniel** to win?
I hate my typos!
At least one. I'd say the deck is stacked against any successful challenge by the McDaniel campaign.
Yeah, but half the Republican senate was down there campaigning for him. You think they're not going to seat him?
To those who continue to vote the "lessor evil" GOPe, may the chains of your enslavement rest easy on your shoulders.
“It would be GREAT if an election was thrown out due to ‘rat precinct voter fraud, and the perps jailed.”
It’s hard to throw the votes out if you can’t prove who they voted for.
You could charge a bunch of people with illegal voting, but how would it change the election? There are no names on the ballots.
Half the voters, maybe -- the government livestock portion of the electorate. But of the taxpaying voters, a whole lot less than half -- probably below 25%. Those would be the working, non-government-dependent sort.
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