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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Thad Cochran will successfully fight off a tea party-backed challenge by state Sen. Chris McDan
CNN Breaking News Email: "Sen. Thad Cochran will successfully fight off a tea party-backed challenge by state Sen. Chris McDaniel to win the Republican U.S. Senate primary in Mississippi, CNN projects.
The two were forced into a runoff when neither candidate reached the 50% threshold to win the June 13 primary outright.
The Mississippi race has been one of the nastiest this election cycle with accusations of dirty politics thrown both ways and arrests for a bizarre break-in at the nursing home where Cochran's bedridden wife lives. Outside groups outspent the candidates' campaigns by a 2-1 ratio."
Armstead
(47,803 posts)betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)and farmers, not blacks but I could be wrong.
My guess is a black democrat would prefer the McDaniel, because it would make it easier for the Dem to win. Haley Barbour hated McDaniel and so did people who like Cochran's position on the ag committees.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)The biggest gains in votes over what was cast in the primary were in largely African American counties.
betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)are also farming counties, since that is where the plantations were. The fact that it was those counties doesn't mean blacks were voting.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)You're kidding, right?
betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)yet still produces some of the most conservative white republican candidates, and is the big ag heart of Mississippi. Not many people vote in primaries so it doesn't take that many people to sway things. Anywy we'll see. Exit polls will tell us more.
mythology
(9,527 posts)Plus Cochran is at least the devil they do know and he's been happy to bring back pork to the districts.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Sore losers may still put Childers in office.
betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)if this was predicted maybe it wouldn't be so silly to vote for the perceived moderate. You can eliminate a kkk candidate and alienate republican voters.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)I'm hoping this is a wake up call to those who think voting doesn't matter. Hoping more people seek out voter registration to beat the Reds in November.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)It makes no difference.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)in that district?
The closer the primary, the greater the chance of the loser mounting a 3rd-party run! Especially, since "everyone knows that the only reason Cochran won is because those negroes voted for him ... what respectable conservative would stoop so low as to allow them negroes to vote at all, let alone accept their votes?"
Maybe enough to allow a Democrat to slip in.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)in the future. Every vote counts, we need to get all possible voters registered and GOTV, get Democrats in office and then we may be able to get this nation back to economic growth, we know how to get jobs going and we know how to raise the minimum wage. Thanks to the Cochran voters of Mississippi there should not be an increase in the crazy TP bunch in Congress.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)McDaniel supporters breaking into the nursing home and I did not see McDaniel deny the action of his supporters. I don't like the TP crap so I am glad this one did not make it to the general election.
AnnieBW
(10,450 posts)Okay, normally I'd be cheering for the Bagger to win the primary, since that gives the Dem a better chance in November. However, McDaniel is a total scumbucket. His supporters broke into the nursing home where Cochran's wife is living with Alzheimer's and took pictures of her! And he didn't disavow these supporters, either. As someone whose mother was in assisted living before she died, I'm just appalled at this.
Skittles
(153,182 posts)very Rove-ish
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Openly sought those votes, too, I might add.