The Senate race in Mississippi
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50% does not matter. No runoff in a Senate race. This is the ultimate FOFO for the Republican Party. A Democrat unseating an incumbent Senator in Mississippi. I'm happy for the guy. He will do a good job.
I think he's got six years - unless the state party can't pull its head out of its rear long enough to recruit a good candidate.
I think you are right. A good candidate could beat him in six years - I am sure there are several (good and bad candidates alike) licking their chops over it as we speak.....
I think so too. This race reminds me of Travis Childers in the house a few years back.
Well, CHS is dumb as a damn brick, talking to her is like talking to the driver of the short bus. Great for Ag, bad for anything else.
I think I've decided that Ag Commissioner is where they stick the people who they'd prefer to not have talking out loud about actual meaningful issues. First Cindy, now Andy, and now Andy's trying to run for governor and he's doing more than talking about the rodeo or state fair, and it's showing.
That may very well be, but she still should not have lost. It's Political Malpractice.
Curious if any of those thinking of running for governor may decide to hold their bullets and run for Senate on 6 years.
Well, I'd say the voters made a choice whether I like it or not. I'd suggest you take that approach. Trump killed the Republicans this time.
Depends on who that good candidate is..... but it's going to be very tough to unseat him unless voters just don't show at some point in the future.
Mississippi is or very near a majority black state. I don't care what the census says. You look at the break down of the vote, he got 91% of the black vote and 25% white.
Mississippi is about to become Georgia.
It's about 60 40. A Democrat that gets 25% of the white vote stands a chance, especially if the GOP candidate is not a good one.
It had nothing to do with democrats showing up, it was all about republicans sitting at house. Why they sat at the house is up to your interpretation
They got 6 years to fix Social Security OR they get to stand before the virtual voter firing squad!
DeSoto and Madison being blue counties now is a seismic shift in Mississippi elections going forward. Mississippi isn't a "blue state" over night, but we're going to start seeing more competitive statewide races.
It was more of a vote of no confidence in CHS. Take for example Desoto County that went blue. Roughly same number of votes for Colom as Harris in last presidential election. 20,000+ less votes for CHS. They didn’t switch parties, they just didn’t vote
Not really
They’re not shifts. The republican vote simply didn’t come to the polls.
ETA this is the number of votes compared to the presidential election in Desoto.
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Tate Reeves could be a logical Senate candidate in 2032. He will only be 58 & his children will be grown which was rumored to be his opposition to being appointed when CHS was. Tate has also won 6 statewide races.
It had to do with Republicans that voted R in Congressional races, but voted D in the Senate. CHS lost enough of thse voters in Madison & Rankin counties alone to swing the election.
I believe Wicker's seat comes up in 4 years. He's 75 and I've heard he may not run for reelection.
If Wicker retires we will have two freshmen Senators at the same time and likely another freshmen after Colom is beat in 32.
Not a good time for Mississippi and appropriating some dollars.
No they didn’t. I’m sure there were a few votes but the majority of the difference was republican voters didn’t show up to the polls.
Midterms are always lower turnout than presidential elections. You can't explain Republicans falling from 48K to 24K and Democrats falling from 29K to 28K just on Republicans staying home. There would have been thousands of Trump-Colom voters.
The other factor is black flight out of Memphis mostly landing in DeSoto rather than the suburbs in Tennessee. Apparently it's gone from around 17% to around 37% in the last 20 years, so you add that plus the white suburban blue trend nationally, and you get a newly blue county.
The other factor is black flight out of Memphis mostly landing in DeSoto rather than the suburbs in Tennessee. Apparently it's gone from around 17% to around 37% in the last 20 years, so you add that plus the white suburban blue trend nationally, and you get a newly blue county.
I’m too old and jaded to have hope that this will prompt the Republican Party to return to actual conservatism. But man would that be something.
Something about sowing & reaping. If Cindy hadn’t blocked him from the judge position (when Wicker supported him), he wouldn’t have run against her. And when Bryant appointed her people couldn’t believe he appointed such a weak senator. She made it through 1 election but it caught up to her last Tuesday. This needs to be a huge wake up call to the entire Republican Party. If they think this was an aberration & they can continue with business as usual, they’re going to get slaughtered in 2 years.
Free college for residents off the lottery instead of politicians pocketing it? ***
Yep. Trump has been a colossal failure. MAGA. Seems to finally be done
I said the same on January 6. Was wrong then and probably wrong now.
You did care, and yes I know the county pretty damn well.
Again Desoto county is definitely not deep red anymore but it is far from being blue. That is just silly talk.
Some more voting totals. This time in Rankin and Madison
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Michael Guest received 2300 more votes in Rankin County than CHS. Madison County was similar.
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