Actually he didn’t blow it. He won the Republican vote. Cochran needed invalid votes from liberal fraudsters to “win” by 6000.
I don’t think that McDaniel could have gotten black votes, period. The whole Dem/Cochran approach to the blacks was based on the idea that Cochran would give them more “free stuff” - more food stamps, more welfare, huge amounts of money to the dysfunctional “historically black colleges,” etc. It was large-scale institutional bribery, conducted through the usual culprits: the black churches.
However, if the Cochran/Dem alliance openly announced this in advance, McDaniel should have prepared a counter-assault. I don’t know about MS politics, but he was a two-term state senator, so surely he would have known it and could have come up with some kind of strategy. Even, for example, publicizing the Dem/Cochran plot among GOP voters might have persuaded a sizeable number of those who had voted for Cochran originally to vote for McDaniel in the run-off.
Correct! the RHINO lost and then they had to use their garbage tactics to win, cheating and voting fraud.