Looks like Cochran has a tiny lead, which kind of lets you know how truly fucked up Mississippi is these days.
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Looks like Cochran has a tiny lead, which kind of lets you know how truly fucked up Mississippi is these days.
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Baud
According to Twitter, media poised to call race for Cochran.
JPL
As I mentioned in a lower thread, I need to take a shower, since I’m cheering for the one who is not quite as racist as the other.
Brian R.
The lead is narrowing steadily.
With 81% in, Cochran is only up by 2.4%.
Hunter Gathers
If Cochran wins, we may get Peak Wingnut. Especially if it any reporting shows that AA voters won it for him.
srv
How come we don’t have standards for States?
Mississippi should be a territory, not a state.
WaterGirl
Cochran is the incumbent, yes?
catclub
Another amusing note. Pearl River County, right next door to John C Stennis Space Center, the giant government installation in the region,… goes 73-27 for McDaniel.
You know all those stories of libertarians who turn out to be government employees?
or maybe they all voted in the Democratic primary.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Yep.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Yes.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Not sure I’ll lose sleep over this one, but anything that gets us even a slim chance to take the seat in the fall is better than nothing. The one I might lose sleep over is Crist in Florida.
I don’t know what he’s done that so many here think he’s slimy, but he beats the hell out of any republican.
JPL
@catclub: Well are they white workers or black workers. That might make a difference.
McDaniel is one that thinks the blacks are taking money from the whites.
Zam
@srv: We’ll definitely see some scary stuff from the tea party types on black people, but if it happens it should really serve to show that its these extremists dominating the republican party that is driving away black people not the promise of “free stuff.” Of course that won’t happen because psychopaths like these aren’t capable of self reflection.
catclub
@srv: look up the GDP and population for Mississippi and Ireland, or Greece.
Anoniminous
Holy _____!
87% reporting and it is 50/50 with a 1,500 vote difference.
ETA: Cochran still has the lead.
SiubhanDuinne
This is the first election cycle that I have not had to cover as part of my job (I was, among other things, the political officer for the Canadian Consulate General in Atlanta, and for 25 years I reported regularly on campaigns, election results, and state legislature and Congressional votes for six Southeast states). Feels odd to be watching returns come in from Mississippi and not be sitting cross-legged in bed taking notes so I could file a report first thing the next morning.
You can take the girl out of the political minutiae, but you can’t ….
rikyrah
@WaterGirl:
Crist is a Human Oil Slick, but he is the best choice in Florida.
Baud
@Anoniminous:
We might get a recount!
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: I think you should file a report in the morning as a guest blogger for BJ. Send something to AL or Betty Cracker!
amk
EJ Dionne
MT @AriMelber: Cochran has gone from running anti-Obama ads to begging Dem voters to save his career. @kasie (paraphrasing) to @craigmelvin
madmommy
@catclub:
The Stennis Space Center is about an hour away from NOLA, so it is possible that quite a lot of their employees live in Louisiana rather than Mississippi. There’s really nothing in Pearl River County other than the space center, it is nothing but swamp and woods. As a Louisiana resident, we take a certain comfort in the fact that no matter how bad it gets here, Mississippi is worse. I was in Long Beach MS over the weekend and saw quite a few Cochran signs, but nothing for McDaniel.
Anoniminous
Perry county hasn’t reported and it’s smack in the middle of McDaniel country. Holmes and Pontotac haven’t reported either. If Perry goes big for McDaniel – and I have no idea how many votes there are, there – McDaniel could win this thing.
The Dangerman
@Baud:
Hanging Thads?
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: Can you spare a few words on why he is a human oil slick? I don’t think betty cracker likes him, either. You don’t live in florida, do you?
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
I never said I liked it!!
SiubhanDuinne
@The Dangerman:
Win.
Anoniminous
@Baud:
Wouldn’t that be fun?
I’d love to have either one win and then lose in a recount. Nice set-up for a faction fight.
ETA: @The Dangerman: ding, ding, ding we have a winner
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Too late! :-)
Suffern ACE
In defense of Mississippi using a random trivia, I recently learned that Mississippi’s department of transportation was responsible for developing the principles behind the shape of street signs, including the eight sided stop sign.
JPL
92% and Cochran is still leading by a percent and a little over 4,000. This is a nail biter. Time for a shower.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Many of my election reports began one of two ways:
“As widely expected, …. ”
or
“In a stunning upset, …. “
WaterGirl
I got a zillion bug bites this morning, and they are suddenly itching up a storm. I am going to try to interrupt the itch cycle by taking a shower. I would like election returns to be complete and all races settled by the time I return, please. Thank you.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
This really is an interesting contest.
pseudonymous in nc
I’m definitely cheering on the prospect of a bitter recount with lots of coverage of $500k/year teabaggers complaining about Those People voting.
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: I respected you because you could stand next to my representative and his wife and be cordial. That’s a talent I need to develop.
scav
@SiubhanDuinne: If we can get either one of them to bite the other and then a late-scoring county upsetting all, I will die laughing.
gbear
I’m kind of hoping that we find out tomorrow that not one black person showed up to vote in the republican primary.
Anoniminous
@JPL:
Part of that was Pontotoc county. Perry county did go McDaniel but not enough votes (yet) to push him over.
We’re running of votes now.
JPL
@Anoniminous: That’s the type of information I didn’t know. I assume that’s why the race hasn’t been called.
Morzer
92.6% Cochrane leading by ~4,900
Time running out for Lunacy
Anoniminous
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’m impressed. (Seriously)
Morzer
94.2% Cochrane’s lead collapses to ~1,100
Supposedly the last big chunk of votes from Jones haven’t yet come in, which could be very bad news for Ol’ Thad.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Something bitey seems to be chewing me up in my sleep recently. I’m not aware of … whatever it is … while they are taking chunks out of me, but I am waking up in the mornings with great itchy swollen welts on my cheek or forehead, or right next to my eye. They make me crazy for a couple of hours, then subside. I assume I have a mosquito on the loose, but they don’t usually go for my face, so I dunno.
catclub
@Morzer: I see 1900, not 4900. 168.0k versus 166.8k
rikyrah
@WaterGirl:
I don’t live in Florida. Crist is what could be called a thinking Republican. The reason he is called a thinking Republican because the rest of the party is frigging insane. I have to give credit to Crist for the following:
1. He restored felon voting rights
2. He didn’t purge voter rolls
3. He extended early voting
All of these mean a great deal to me
I consider him a Human Oil Slick cause a heavily rumored gay man got married to a woman, which says a great deal about his ambition.
dnl
I graduated from high school in MS when Trent Lott, then Senate majority leader, spoke at our quite small school. With Thad Cochran you had a relatively small state with the number 1 and perhaps number 3-5 senators in the US. One of the most potentially powerful combinations a state of our size has had in Congress.
Even then, post Contract of America, people were talking about term limits in MS as a way to fix government. I just couldn’t fathom it. Didn’t they understand the years of federal funding the state needed to catch up with the rest of the country? The US could decide to actively fix its lagging states, such as MS and LA, either directly or targeted by class in a new war on poverty, by tripling the money we spend there on education, infrastructure, and job creation. It would take 30 years to make a dent.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
Just explaining Southern politics to my counterparts at the other Canadian Consulates was challenge enough!
Morzer
lamh36
If Cochran pulls this thru, or even gets close, it would seem it may be on the backs of African American voters in MISS, literally.
Cochran was down in the polls or within neck and neck with McDaniels so who did he go to…he went hat in hand to Black neighborhood and courted their votes.
And from what I’m reading already, it would seem that African American turnout is more than usual.
As a fellow African American, here’s hoping that those African Americans who came out in larger numbers than usual to vote for GOP candidate in Mississippi also comes bout in large numbers for the general election.
I suspect thought that if he does win, then Cochran will not be courting the same African American voters in the general.
PhoenixRising
@SiubhanDuinne: Sounds bedbuggy. Lard help ya. You’ve identified what’s worse than Tea Party GOPers in Mississippi.
Morzer
94.8% Cochrane ahead by ~2,400 – BUT Jones county is pretty much done.
Might be that Bestiality will hold off the last surge by Lunacy.
pseudonymous in nc
Oh, no statutory recount provision in Mississippi, but you can seek a recount through the courts. Pass the popcorn.
James E. Powell
Look, we all know that Mississippi is honeycombed with Black Panther and ACORN sleeper cells – unfunded but undaunted! Well, acting on direct orders from Obama himself, these anti-American & anti-God forces mobilized to nominate Cochran. Obama did this for Cochran in exchange for Cochran’s agreement to vote in support of Obama’s plan to impose Shari’a Law throughout these United States.
I swear, I read it on the internet!
ruemara
These days? What goldens days of unfuckitude are you pining for? It’s fucking Mississippi.
Baud
@Morzer:
A cow is going to get lucky tonight.
Mr Stagger Lee
@catclub: If McDaniel wins, I think President Obama should oblige the sesech and close Stennis, and maybe give the spoils to Huntsville Alabama provided the Alabama congressional delegations kneel before him.(I know I know, but can’t guy get a Walter Mitty revenge fantasy?)
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
More than cordial. I’ve had Tom come up to me at receptions and give me a BIG {{{hug}}}! Impressed the hell out of some of my colleagues :-)
(On a more pleasant note, John Lewis has done the same. But he seems a more huggy type, so while it was very nice, it wasn’t unexpected.)
James E. Powell
If Cochran pulls this thru, or even gets close, it would seem it may be on the backs of African American voters in MISS, literally.
Is there anything that the white ruling class in Mississippi has that was not gained from the backs of African-Americans, literally?
Morzer
94.9% Cochrane’s lead now ~2,500
Anne Laurie
@SiubhanDuinne:
Sounds like an allergic reaction — you changed anything in your pre-sleep skincare routine recently? Or even the laundry detergent you’re using on your linens?
⚽️ Martin
@lamh36: I’d be willing to bet that almost no african americans turned out. The GOP attacks on voting rights tells you they understand how important voting is just as much as black voters. Threatening to have black voters come out in MS is a great GOTV strategy. Low turnout elections always favor the challenger. The better the turnout, the better the odds for the incumbent.
Tommy
@efgoldman: I am a midwest person, but cause of my father’s government service and college I’ve lived in the deep south. Louisiana and Texas. I can usually put my finger on the pulse of an area but I am at a lost for the deep south. I live in a pretty blue dog district but we have nice things. Really nice things.
We tend to vote for our interest. I don’t know how you live in a state where by every measure you are close to last or last in the nation and not think to yourself this is FUBAR. Maybe we need to vote for somebody else.
max
max
[‘171,971 Cochran, 169,445 McDaniel, 95% reporting’]
pseudonymous in nc
Why, in American state-wide elections, is there always one fucking county that declares long after all the others?
Put the damn results in a box, send them to the state capital, and announce the total there.
Seriously, people, you’ve been full of helpful hints these past weeks about how to change the rules of association football, so maybe take that spirit and apply it to elections?
Morzer
95.3% Cochrane leads by ~4,000
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Spiders can be evil, and strike unseen. Bastards.
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: See, you proved me right. When I was in Publix, he stood next to me in the milk section and I left. He’s creepy.
Baud
Apparently, Charlie Rangel is in a nail biter also.
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: Thanks for the reply. The marriage thing doesn’t bother me, and neither does ambition. I don’t think you get to be governor without a good deal of ambition.
Cervantes
@Suffern ACE: No, it was the Mississippi Valley Association of Highway Departments you’re thinking of — an entirely different animal.
Anne Laurie
In other election news, POLITICO says Lankford (the Ginger) beat Shannon (African-American/Chickasaw):
Another proof of Palin’s (negative) ability to pick winners.
lamh36
@⚽️ Martin: So far the reporting is that all the increases are in AA areas and that their seems to be an increase.
Also too…this:
We’ll see if this falls out
Anoniminous
Only Holmes county to report and it’s doubtful there are enough votes left for McDaniel to win.
dnl
@efgoldman:
Sometimes I feel that way too, especially when I hear secessionist/sedition bullshit from TX or LA governors. However, like several other southern Tea Party dominated states, you are affecting the lively hood of a significant population of the disenfranchised poor. The state political machines there could use a crashing, but I’m torn on throwing them to the wolves.
Cacti
@lamh36:
I also suspect that if black Mississippians put Cochran over the top, he’ll do two things for them.
Jack and shit.
JPL
OMG, Bad repub up by 4,000 with 95% reporting and WHACKOo repub still close. This is really a tough race.
Morzer
SiubhanDuinne
@PhoenixRising:
I don’t think so, honestly. I’ve never seen a sign of bedbugs, and having spent a lot of time in hotels when I was working, I got kind of paranoid about checking bedclothes for signs of infestation. Also, I would expect bites on my legs and torso and arms, not a couple of places on my face. I’m thinking mosquitos or those little harmless but annoying spiders. If it persists, I’ll check with my dermatologist.
ETA: “having spent a lot of time in hotels when I was working” didn’t come out quite right! LOL!
juststoppingby
folks, you might also want to pay attention to the results out of NY-13, the Harlem/Washington Heights district that Charlie Rangel has ruled since Achilles was a pup. as of this writing Rangel is up by about 500 votes (out of about 15,000, or 48%, with 34% reporting). couple of dark horses are siphoning off a few thousand votes. Rangel has stuck around too long and lost the hop on his fastball yonks ago, but his main opponent, Adriano Espaillat, is an opportunistic scumbag. i held my nose for Charlie, and i didn’t even get a lousy t-shirt.
TaMara (BHF)
@JPL: AHEM. I did as you asked.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Cacti: And Jack has took off for New Orleans.
Baud
@Cacti:
Cochran is worse than McDaniels. He sold us out.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I’m not sure what to think about that one.
Edit: That one = that election result. Not that one by john mccain’s definition.
Getsmartin
@madmommy: I live in Long Beach …. Believe me, although we’re not as top heavy here on the coast with the hard core winger numbers as upstate, McD support is substantial (driving by polling locales this afternoon was telling). Whatever the outcome, I’d vote for an Aardvark before I’d vote for a Republican.
Violet
@SiubhanDuinne: Get checked for shingles! My dad is struggling with it and they can affect your eye. If you catch it within the first 72 hours of the lesions showing up, the anti-viral medication is effective. Otherwise not so much. Shingles near the eye can be dangerous for your eyes. Worth getting checked.
PhoenixRising
@SiubhanDuinne: Liked it. Hope you’re right. I’d still rather have bedbugs than McDaniel in the Senate.
max
@pseudonymous in nc: Why, in American state-wide elections, is there always one fucking county that declares long after all the others?
Because those are usually the very poorest of the black, Hispanic or Native American counties where the government is starved of funds and there are not enough staffer, not enough voting equipment, and the equipment they do have is obsolete.
And if you watch individual precincts in urban counties, the poorest (and most minority) ones come in last, particularly in the South.
You’d almost think there was some kind of intentional government neglect applying to voting in minority areas.
max
[‘Naw. Couldn’t be.’]
⚽️ Martin
@lamh36: Well, there’s about 350,000 votes in this race, in a state of 3 million, 1.8 million registered voters. That means 1 million white registered voters. So we get this outcome with only a 35% turnout of white voters and not a single black voter showing up.
So maybe black voters did turn out, but statistically this outcome doesn’t require it.
catclub
4000 votes is 1%. I will be surprised at a recount changing that.
Holmes county still not reporting, but it is likely to favor Thad.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
I didn’t even know that was going to be a close race.
Morzer
Looks like the teabaggers are being their usual gracious, happy selves.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: When I was 13, my older sister wanted to make a romantic dinner for her boyfriend on an upcoming Friday night. My mom was concerned about what I would do, and I couldn’t understand what the problem was when I said, “That’s okay, I’ll go walk the streets”.
A bunch of us kids would just walk the streets in the evening, hanging out, what was wrong with that??
SiubhanDuinne
@Violet:
I had a nasty attack of shingles four or five years ago, and this ain’t it (mercifully). This is just random bites.
Morzer
95.7% Cochrane leads by ~4,900
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Hahaha!
WaterGirl
@efgoldman: Hmm, now why did I think it was tonight? Maybe Betty Cracker’s post earlier today. Thanks for the correction.
Mike E
@PhoenixRising: If it’s a bed bug infestation, heat is the only course of house treatment: raise the interior temp to above 110° for a couple of days and put clothing in a hot dryer for good measure, too.
Trust me.
Morzer
96.5% Cochrane leads by ~5,800
jibeaux
@Anne Laurie: too bad tokenism is their only idea for inroads into minority voters, because as a strategy it seems to pretty much suck.
catclub
@Morzer: Erick Erickson was saying that if McDaniel won, the establishment GOP would sabotage him in the general. Maybe the tea party will sabotage Cochran in the general!
Projection and all that.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I didn’t know until yesterday when I read that Barack Obama did not come out as supporting Rangel. When I saw that, I figured something was going on there.
Morzer
@catclub:
You can have a lot of fun-filled evenings with pop-corn and schadenfreude.
Morzer
96.8% Cochrane leads by ~4,300
DeSoto and Jones are both done, Holmes is in – hard to see where Lunacy finds the votes to turn this around.
dnl
@efgoldman:
I wouldn’t be here if Congress hadn’t passed TVA. So would a lot of other people, and the country would be much poorer. It’s the leaders of white old boy MS that screwed and have been screwing over the state. Things will get worse, much worse, for African Americans (37% of the population) and poor whites (who vote Republican because they hate blacks) when things get worse. If the latter could be hit hard with a harsh economic reality without once again hurting the former I would be all for it.
rikyrah
@Cacti:
TELL IT
Sometimes, I just don’t understand things.
Gordon, the Big Express Engine
This reminds a lot of the Pappy O’ Daniel/Homer Stokes race back in the 1930s.
Mississippi politicians had integrity and values back then. Heck, Pappy O’ Daniel invented moral fiber!
Violet
@SiubhanDuinne: Glad to hear it. Sounds like you’ve got some kind of a nest of something near your bed. Maybe vacuum around everywhere at the head of the bed and wash the covers in addition to changing the sheets would help.
Mr Stagger Lee
I would like to go to RedState and (not so)Free Republic to see the reactions, but I don’t enough disinfectant to delouse.
Tommy
@WaterGirl: I live now in the town I went to high school in. As a kid I was outside all the time. Day. Night. You name it. Still pretty much the case with kids in my town. On a weekend there are a lot of kids out. Going to the parks. Walking around. One of the reasons I live here. I like that.
Anoniminous
By my calculation there are ~11,000 votes left and McDaniel will have to get around 66% of ’em to win. It’s doable but highly unlikely.
jibeaux
@Morzer: lol, what kind of threat is “you’ll lose your base” supposed to be to a a republican in Mississippi? It’s a really deep fucking bench.
madmommy
@Getsmartin:
I was only there for a few hours, took the kids over to visit with my mom as she was in town for her HS reunion. We drove around and saw the sights and I noticed the various yard signs. It’s been since before Katrina that I’d gone over there, amazing to see how different the coast looked!
divF
@Violet: Bugbites and the MS republican primary infesting this thread.
Morzer
96.9% Cochrane leads by ~4,400
I anticipate some quality hootin’ and hollerin’ as Thad Cochrane leads Mississippi towards a bright new era of sharia law.
dnl
Has there been a post on Obama coming out to support paid maternity leave?
Story and context here:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-us-offer-paid-maternity-leave-24268165
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave
Anne Laurie
@juststoppingby:
The NYTimes had a big wet kiss of an “interview” with Rev. Walrond yesterday. If Sen. Rangel loses to Espillat by less than 7%, I have the sneaking suspicion Walrond will *not* be a popular guy in his community… but then, I haven’t been a New Yorker for the past 40 years!
Morzer
98.1% Cochrane leads by ~4,500
Bestiality moving toward the finish line confidently now.
Regnad Kcin
@Gordon, the Big Express Engine: they jes’ need them summa that there re-form, is all
Baud
@efgoldman:
Not quite sure he’ll lose. It’s just a close race.
JPL
Why hasn’t the MS been called? The only reason, imo, is that they still think McDaniel can win.
@SiubhanDuinne: As long as you shower, ha, why don’t you get a bug bomb and stay with me a few days.
Len
AP just called it for Cochran. 51% to 49% with 98% of precincts reporting.
SiubhanDuinne
@Violet:
Good advice, thanks.
juststoppingby
@Anne Laurie: that was such a weird story. if you’re going to do a beat-sweetener, shouldn’t it be with someone who (putatively) matters?
divF
AP is calling it for Cochran (so soon ?).
ETA: Len beat me to it.
Morzer
AP has called the race for Cochrane. Should be a fun next 24 hours as the teabaggers go into full ragegasm mode.
JPL
OK.. the NYTimes called the race for Cochran.
dslak
According to Twitter, Cochran’s victory doesn’t count because he only achieved it with help from Democrats. I may not have enough popcorn.
mdblanche
@Baud: “You fucked up. You trusted us.”
Question: Does Mississippi have a sore loser law or is it possible this turns into a three-way in November?
divF
@Morzer:
@dslak:
Now can we start rooting for injuries ?
pseudonymous in nc
@max:
Point taken, and Homes County is 80% black, total population 21,000. Still, if it’s not poor minority areas in the south where the county board’s equipment budget extends to a blunt pencil, it’s some weird part of the midwest where the elected head of the county board compiles results with Excel 2002 and set of post-it notes.
lamh36
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
Thanks, JPL! I must have made it sound much worse than it is! Just an itchy welt or two on my face when I wake up in the morning, nothing at all serious.
But thank you, seriously.
max
@Morzer:
The ultra-crazies aren’t done, and the right-wing will continue to push rightwardly as always, but the Second Great Neo-Confederate Rebellion part is toast.
Sayonara and kiss my race traitor ass, O Konfederate Kheer Korps.
max
[‘So we have got that going for us.’]
JPL
@dslak: that is what the NYTimes is saying but in not that way. There was a concern about education among the minorities.
Morzer
@divF:
Absolutely. Meteor strikes also too.
lamh36
Morzer
@mdblanche:
Hot “Man-on-Farm-Animal”-on-Teabagger action sounds like a plan to me.
dslak
@JPL: Ah, yes. Perhaps some of them were ignorant of their own skin color.
WaterGirl
@JPL: Hey, you’re up to 19/31 people in favor of your book review. I mentioned on the other thread that that seems like a lot of action for a book review, especially this late in the evening. Someone from the dark side must have some people voting, as well.
Someone replied to your review and was negative about the book, and their comment got hidden. I clicked to see it and clicked to say I thought it contributed to the conversation, so it’s visible again.
Did you read the book? Because one person says that you didn’t say you read the book, so who cares about your opinion anyway? (I do, of course.)
lamh36
Morzer
@lamh36:
The Noodly Appendage bends the arc of justice once more!
Anoniminous
@lamh36:
hee
That’s going to send the TeaBaggers in general and the McDaniel people completely around the bend.
WaterGirl
I’m glad efgoldman let me know that the Crist primary isn’t until august. I would have gotten awfully tired trying to stay up waiting for the results on that one!
gbear
@lamh36: I’ve been reading David Corn tweets on a couple of blogs this evening. He’s having altogether too much fun with this.
JPL
@dslak: hmm what? Maybe some of them understood that there was a candidate that didn’t believe in federal funding for education.
cmorenc
AP has called the Miss. R Senate runoff for Cochran, who has over a 4k lead with over 98% of precincts reporting, and nearly all McDaniel-friendly areas already in. And it’s quite apparent that Cochran won with the help of black voters turning out in Mississippi’s open primary and runoff elections, even though 99% of them will vote for his democratic opponent in November.
Morzer
@gbear:
lamh36
lamh36
Morzer
dslak
@JPL: I misunderstood. I thought you meant there was “concern” about the “education” of the minorities among the teabaggers. I understand what you meant now.
Killjoy
Hopefully the tea party and the establishment keep trading blows like this
lamh36
catclub
The breaking news headline at the Clarion Ledger is “Thad Cochran wins re-election to U.S. Senate.” which is technically not yet true. I am still voting for Childers in the fall. I wonder if any of the things McDaniel used will bite in the fall. Old, out of touch, possibly has dementia. I doubt it.
I think this means Haley Barbour is our senator in two years.
JPL
@WaterGirl: Honestly I didn’t read the book because I wouldn’t. The reason I wrote the review was because it was featured on Insider’s edition or one of those shows. I had the TV on mute and looked up and it was highlighting the book. So maybe the person who accused me of not reading the book, knows that Hill and Bama spent time in the Lincoln bedroom. hmmm
Getsmartin
@madmommy: I feel more “connected” with nola than I do with this state in which reside (living an hour from New Orleans makes living in Miss. tolerable). I feel like an alien when I venture any distance north of I-10.
Indeed – Katrina wrecked this area. Thank the FSM federal relief!
lamh36
Citizen Alan
You can talk about “passing the popcorn,” but Travis Childers only hope was for McDaniels to win. There will be no big donors for Childers against Cochran. The Teabaggers are mad now, but they’ll come home in November because “better a RINO than a Marxist” (which is what they genuinely believe the conservative Childers to be). My expectation is that Childers will basically shut his campaign down next week and just keep his name on the ballot in case Cochran keels over dead or something.
JPL
@lamh36: There is no doubt that he is a hypocrite but the danger is or was, McDaniel isn’t..
The Dangerman
@Morzer:
The chance of the base not turning out for the Republicans in November is roughly the same as the lobster in the tank at Red Lobster finding freedom.
Tommy
@Getsmartin: I bet. My grandfather started a tradition when he was stationed in TX during WWII of spending a week in NOLA. I was born in Baton Rouge when my father was at LSU. Went to grad school there myself. My love of the state is hard to put into words.
lamh36
@Citizen Alan: Or maybe Childers can at the very least try to IDK get boots on the ground in the same Black neighborhoods that Cochran seemed to do in the past 2 weeks? I mean if he gonna lose anyway, what has he got to lose. Go out, and ask African Americans for their votes, don’t just assume you got them or they’ll come out. Go to the neighborhood and do it and who knows maybe just maybe you can galvanize that vote.
Doesn’t Mississippi have the largest percentage of African American votes in the south (or in the nation I thought). It’s better to try and fail, than to not even try at all…right?
madmommy
@Getsmartin:
I remember going there every summer as a child to visit the grandparents, so we drove by the old house this weekend. I have vivid memories of playing in the sprinkler in the front yard, swinging in the swing my Poppa made for us and hung in the big oak tree out back. When we got to the house I couldn’t believe how tiny it was, and the front yard was miniscule. I know when you’re a little kid everything seems bigger but…it is the house my mom grew up in, so if she says that is the place, I have to believe her!
lamh36
NotMax
Haven’t poked around to look yet, but any data on Charlie Rangel in NY?
Comrade Mary
AP calls for Cochran? Wow.
FlipYrWhig
@Citizen Alan: I get that, but I feel like McDaniel is a true believer pod person like Ted Cruz, and I do not want someone like that anywhere near the sausage factory of government. He has that creepy College Republican / vacation Bible school affect that’s somehow both phony and all too real.
catclub
@lamh36: That is not a recent picture of Thad in the article. he looks much older now.
lamh36
Wow, tea party types are really not taking Thad’s win well…
scav
Minor giggle about the use of the arms-length NYT construction “Cochran Holds Off Tea Party Challenger, A.P. Says“
Getsmartin
@Tommy: Nice…. I know Red Stick well. My GF lives in Nola, so I’m there nearly every weekend. It’s truly one of the great cities in this country. I always bring friends to places not on the typical tourist itinerary just to gauge their reaction. It’s dreamy.
Tommy
@lamh36: I get Twitter can be a waste land of terrible comments. But who says stuff like that.
lamh36
lamh36
Oooh, McDaniel’s not happy…wonder why….
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@NotMax: The NY Times has Rangel ahead by 4.8% with 97% in – here.
Cheers,
Scott.
Anoniminous
@Tommy:
Teabaggers
Getsmartin
@madmommy: Speaking of Oaks, remember the Friendship Oak on the old Gulf Park College campus (now a southern miss. satellite campus)? It’s a 500 year old beauty.
lamh36
mdblanche
@lamh36: Party unity my ass.
lamh36
Betty Cracker
@WaterGirl: FWIW, I don’t dislike Crist; he wasn’t a terrible governor, and unlike some Blue Dogs, he defends Obama and the ACA. He’s a rank opportunist, but he doesn’t seem like a bad guy. I’ll vote for him if he’s the nominee.
Tommy
@Getsmartin: My best friend there was from Vermont. I guess my home state is IL. We spent countless hours driving around the south of the state. It was like a foreign world for us. I don’t dislike NOLA but the rest of the state. Wow!
They would often call me a “Yankee” and say I talk funny. Then be the most inviting people I’ve ever met.
PhoenixRising
Does the FSM love us enough to provide a write-in campaign for McDaniel?
Salt that earth, true believers. You were robbed by the ni-CLANG lie-berals in Jackson.
Betty Cracker
@lamh36: Haha! I so enjoy it when they turn on fellow Republicans.
lamh36
Whoa, that McDaniel “concession” speech was dog-whistling all over the place!!
Shorter McDaniel…”The South Will Rise Again!”
lamh36
David Corn has been on fire all night.
David Koch
but, but….. BEHNGHAZI!
GregB
@lamh36:
Irregularities, is that what they are calling Black people now?
I think this whipsawing of the Republican Party may be causing some serious stress fractures.
David Koch
mcDumbass gave sour grapes speech wearing white sheet and hood
Anoniminous
@David Koch:
It’s now TUPELOGHAZIGATE!
David Koch
Shorter McDaniel: “I say segregation today! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forevah!”
Mike in NC
Who really gives a flying shit about Mississippi, one of several of America’s assholes, to include Texas, Louisiana, South Carolina, and many others?
Getsmartin
@Tommy: Not surprised by your impression of “beyond” NOLA ( which is an Oasis). These are the people who elected Jindal – and RE elected Vitter!
GregB
McDaniel’s general election write-in catch phrase:
Like a yeast infection, the South will rise again.
Tommy
@GregB: I’ve said this a few times. My mom runs elections in her district. She is not a liberal. She calls me after every election in tears more individuals don’t vote. She doesn’t care the color of your skin. Your age. Heck your political ID. She just wants people to vote. Vote. Maybe why my parents who are not liberal raised a liberal son. Can I say it again. Vote.
Chickamin Slam
Someone’s bemoaning on one of those blog sites monitored that “Thad Cochran is the Al Franken of the Republican Party”
Suzanne
Once again, one of the many sons of Senator Flake behaved badly, and this time, there are twenty dead dogs. Even Joe Arpaio says this is shady.
I’m a little sad that McDaniel lost. I sorta want to get to witness Peak Wingnut. I want to have something to tell my grandkids.
lamh36
Betty Cracker
O/T: Does anyone know where I can stream Borgen? I could swear I recently heard it was available, but I can’t find it on Amazon or Netflix.
David Koch
BWHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH
mouse tolliver
Rachel says Cochran won. Not sure if this is live. It’s the 12am show.
pseudonymous in nc
Coming to Showtime Mississippi: Irregularity Is The New Black.
lamh36
Who would have thunk a negative campaigner like McDaniel would be so ungraccious…oh…everyone…okay then.
David Koch
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Tommy
@David Koch: As somebody else here said upthread, these folks are just going to want to succeed.
TooManyJens
@lamh36:
I can’t wait to see how they try to do that. “Look at all these votes for Cochran in black districts! We all know black people aren’t Republicans!”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
another GOP civil war…
She’s a prominent Tea Bagger, I guess, maybe the one who was on Tweety the other night saying she wanted to cut waste and increase spending to balance the budget. Is there a race where a small number of Baggers staying home will have any real effect. Maybe GA, NC or KY? My inner Eeyore says they’ll fall in line by Labor Day. This war will mostly involve a lot of shouting on Morning JOe.
max
@FlipYrWhig: I get that, but I feel like McDaniel is a true believer pod person like Ted Cruz, and I do not want someone like that anywhere near the sausage factory of government. He has that creepy College Republican / vacation Bible school affect that’s somehow both phony and all too real.
Yeah. There is an excellent argument for encouraging the R’s to elect nuttier candidates, particularly in purple states. The odds that Childers could eke out a win possibly would have increased greatly… from nearly nil to very small. Set against six years of a guy who is not enough Sarah Palin and entirely too much Bull Conner.
The part where they thought it was a real good idea of break into a old folks home and take pictures of a demented old lady to win a campaign strongly suggested entirely too much of the vilest kind of ratfucking for my taste.
max
[‘Already got one Ted Cruz, and he did in fact beat his Democratic opponent. So.’]
MikeJ
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: (quoting a loon)_
Republicans always think that getting more votes than they is “stealing.”
max
@PhoenixRising: Does the FSM love us enough to provide a write-in campaign for McDaniel?
Now *that* would REALLY improve Childers’ chances.
max
[‘Ya never know…’]
⚽️ Martin
This is an interesting conundrum the GOP is in. They argue that they are the rightful party for african americans to support because Lincoln, but as soon as an african american votes for a Republican they scream fraud.
So which is it? I’ll note that the former is always carefully laid out in strategy documents and the latter in the heat of electoral battle. One is a more honest message from them.
Tommy
@max: I live in a blue dog district. Our three decade Democrat house member retired. If the Republicans would have put up a semi-sane person they might have won the district. They put up this tea party loon. He got trounced.
Bubblegum Tate
@GregB:
Teabagger I know is trying to spin this as “successful conservative outreach to black voters.” His optimism is just precious, isn’t it?
max
@Tommy: Our three decade Democrat house member retired. If the Republicans would have put up a semi-sane person they might have won the district. They put up this tea party loon. He got trounced.
Ayup. Works like a charm.
max
[‘Unfortunately, that also meant that in the Deep South they were working themselves up to nominating Zombie Hitler (‘Vote for the Pure Conservative!’). Enh.’]
mdblanche
@David Koch: Please proceed, assholes.
@Tommy: “These folks are just going to want to
succeedsecede.”FTFY.
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: Oops, sorry I got that wrong!