Wednesday, May 14, 2008
If the Republicans can't win in Mississippi
A state that has been under a Republican lock for half a lifetime, a state with a major Republican mover'n'shaker behind every tree and in the Governors Mansion, what chance have they got in November.
The Democrat, Travis Childers, a local courthouse official, pulled together a coalition of blacks, who turned out heavily, and old-line “yellow dog” Democrats, to beat his Republican opponent, Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven, a Memphis suburb. With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, the vote was 54 percent for Mr. Childers to 46 percent for Mr. Davis.54-46, it wasn't even close. I'm not declaring them dead yet, not until sundown, but it does look like you can cut the head off the Republican snake anywhere you want to put up a good candidate and a strong campaign run.
The seat had been in Republican hands since 1995, and the district, largely rural and stretching across the northern top of Mississippi, had been considered one of the safest in the country for President Bush’s party, as he won here with 62 percent of the vote in 2004.
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