Childers' election to District 1 MS is a good thing! [View All]

[Maddy McCall]

The seat has been occupied by Democrats since Reconstruction, with one exception--Roger Wicker, who took the seat in 1995.

I know a lot of you want to credit Barack Obama's coattails for Childers' win, but the simple, undeniable fact is that this is a Democratic district that always has been Democratic, except for the Wicker aberration.

1873-1877.....L. Q. C. Lamar..... Democratic
1877-1885.....Henry Muldrow...... Democratic
1885-1901.....John Allen......... Democratic
1901-1921.....Ezekiel Candler.... Democratic
1921-1953.....John Rankin........ Democratic
1953-1973.....Thomas Abernathy... Democratic
1973-1995.....Jamie Whitten...... Democratic
1995-2007.....Roger Wicker....... Republican
2008-.........Travis Childers.... Democratic

This victory is Childers' and the people who worked tirelessly on his campaign. Please don't incorrectly attribute his victory today to Barack Obama. In fact, he clearly distanced himself from Obama, when Greg Davis tried to force a Childers/Obama association. See this:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/Childers_distances_himself_from_Obama.html

If anything, view it as a rejection of Bush politics. Dick Cheney was here yesterday campaigning for Greg Davis, who probably would have been better off without the Bush albatross hanging from his neck.