Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Sour whine coming from Mississippi
The corporate establishment Republican Thad Cochran won his runoff election yesterday against Teabagger Chris McDaniel. According to most reports, Cochran did so with the help of a significant number of Democrats who took advantage of Mississippi election law that allows for party crossover voting in primary elections. Needless to say the Teabagger McDaniel is pissing and moaning about the result of democracy inaction. The nerve of those voters keeping him out of the office he deserved.
Mr. McDaniel, speaking in Hattiesburg, was angry, and he did not hesitate to say so. “There is something a bit strange, there is something a bit unusual about a Republican primary that’s decided by liberal Democrats,” he said.I suppose Mississippi won't be so easily rid of that Know-Nothing WATB McDaniel but it was nice to see him sandbagged by the very people he would try so hard to fuck over if he had won. Mind you, Cochran is no great shakes either but he is old school, he leaves his racism at home when he goes out in public.
He accused Mr. Cochran of abandoning the conservative movement. “So much for principles,” he said.
Mr. McDaniel, an uncompromising conservative, relied on the muscle of outside groups and the enthusiasm of conservative voters who are weary of Mr. Cochran’s old-school Washington ways.
The 76-year-old senator ran a largely sleepy campaign until the primary on June 3, when he was edged out by Mr. McDaniel but won enough votes to keep his opponent from outright victory. Mr. Cochran, who is seeking his seventh term, used the past three weeks to turn out Democratic voters — especially African-Americans — to make up that deficit.
A surge of voters showed up on Tuesday in African-American precincts and in Mr. Cochran’s other strongholds to surprise Mr. McDaniel, 41, who just Monday night declared his campaign had gone from impossible to improbable to unstoppable. Early Wednesday, with all but one precinct reporting, Mr. Cochran’s lead over Mr. McDaniel was a little more than 6,000 votes. Recounts are not required under Mississippi law, although Mr. McDaniel could seek to challenge the results through the courts.
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