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applegrove

(118,006 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:15 PM Jun 2014

Sen. Thad Cochran will successfully fight off a tea party-backed challenge by state Sen. Chris McDan

CNN Breaking News Email: "Sen. Thad Cochran will successfully fight off a tea party-backed challenge by state Sen. Chris McDaniel to win the Republican U.S. Senate primary in Mississippi, CNN projects.

The two were forced into a runoff when neither candidate reached the 50% threshold to win the June 13 primary outright.

The Mississippi race has been one of the nastiest this election cycle with accusations of dirty politics thrown both ways and arrests for a bizarre break-in at the nursing home where Cochran's bedridden wife lives. Outside groups outspent the candidates' campaigns by a 2-1 ratio."

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betterdemsonly

(1,967 posts)
2. My bet is the decisive factor was non domionist republicans
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:23 PM
Jun 2014

and farmers, not blacks but I could be wrong.

My guess is a black democrat would prefer the McDaniel, because it would make it easier for the Dem to win. Haley Barbour hated McDaniel and so did people who like Cochran's position on the ag committees.

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
4. The current results show you to be wrong.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:25 PM
Jun 2014

The biggest gains in votes over what was cast in the primary were in largely African American counties.

 

betterdemsonly

(1,967 posts)
5. Many African American counties
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:27 PM
Jun 2014

are also farming counties, since that is where the plantations were. The fact that it was those counties doesn't mean blacks were voting.

 

betterdemsonly

(1,967 posts)
13. The delta is highly african american
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:38 PM
Jun 2014

yet still produces some of the most conservative white republican candidates, and is the big ag heart of Mississippi. Not many people vote in primaries so it doesn't take that many people to sway things. Anywy we'll see. Exit polls will tell us more.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
16. The Democrat almost certainly wouldn't have beaten either candidate in the general
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:43 PM
Jun 2014

Plus Cochran is at least the devil they do know and he's been happy to bring back pork to the districts.

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
3. The MS BAggers online are declaring they will withhold their vote for Cochran come Nov.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:23 PM
Jun 2014

Sore losers may still put Childers in office.

 

betterdemsonly

(1,967 posts)
10. Let's hope that is a significant percentage
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:33 PM
Jun 2014

if this was predicted maybe it wouldn't be so silly to vote for the perceived moderate. You can eliminate a kkk candidate and alienate republican voters.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
17. BINGO!
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:49 PM
Jun 2014

I'm hoping this is a wake up call to those who think voting doesn't matter. Hoping more people seek out voter registration to beat the Reds in November.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
8. Anyone know the Democratic numbers ...
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:33 PM
Jun 2014

in that district?

The closer the primary, the greater the chance of the loser mounting a 3rd-party run! Especially, since "everyone knows that the only reason Cochran won is because those negroes voted for him ... what respectable conservative would stoop so low as to allow them negroes to vote at all, let alone accept their votes?"

Maybe enough to allow a Democrat to slip in.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
12. If it is true the black vote sent Cochran over the top then it should give Democrats more strength
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:38 PM
Jun 2014

in the future. Every vote counts, we need to get all possible voters registered and GOTV, get Democrats in office and then we may be able to get this nation back to economic growth, we know how to get jobs going and we know how to raise the minimum wage. Thanks to the Cochran voters of Mississippi there should not be an increase in the crazy TP bunch in Congress.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
9. I haven't read much on the political life of Thad Cochran but the actions coming out of the
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:33 PM
Jun 2014

McDaniel supporters breaking into the nursing home and I did not see McDaniel deny the action of his supporters. I don't like the TP crap so I am glad this one did not make it to the general election.

AnnieBW

(10,350 posts)
11. McDaniel is a scumbag
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:37 PM
Jun 2014

Okay, normally I'd be cheering for the Bagger to win the primary, since that gives the Dem a better chance in November. However, McDaniel is a total scumbucket. His supporters broke into the nursing home where Cochran's wife is living with Alzheimer's and took pictures of her! And he didn't disavow these supporters, either. As someone whose mother was in assisted living before she died, I'm just appalled at this.

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