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1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 09:23 PM Jun 2014

Watching Steve Kornacki on TRMS ...

He likened the Cochran/McDaniel run-off to the Eisenhower/Taft fight (the Great Betrayal) that didn't lead to a gop split ... a third party challenge in the general election.

But I don't think the times, or the players, are the same ... I fully expect McDaniel, if he can't challenge the results, will mount a 3rd-Party run. And I fully expect that the tea-party folks (beck, red-states, etc.) to encourage and fully support such a move.

But what do I know?

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Watching Steve Kornacki on TRMS ... (Original Post) 1StrongBlackMan Jun 2014 OP
If he could actually get his name on the ballot, I would agree. MohRokTah Jun 2014 #1
Really ... 1StrongBlackMan Jun 2014 #2
You assume McDaniel's supporters can write. LOL! kaiden Jun 2014 #3
+ infinity MohRokTah Jun 2014 #5
LOL ... 1StrongBlackMan Jun 2014 #6
Sure MohRokTah Jun 2014 #4
Thanks, though I did see the no 3rd party run part ... 1StrongBlackMan Jun 2014 #7
Precisely, that clause of Mississippi law is comepletely unenforceable MohRokTah Jun 2014 #8
racists always tell black folks gwheezie Jun 2014 #9
 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
1. If he could actually get his name on the ballot, I would agree.
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 09:27 PM
Jun 2014

Under Mississippi law, that ship done sailed. He cannot mount a third party run with his name on the ballot. He can only mount a write in campaign.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
2. Really ...
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 09:32 PM
Jun 2014

got a link?

But, if that's the case, let's not underestimate ( read: encourage) a write-in campaign ... it worked in Alaska(?), in the 2012 cycle.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
7. Thanks, though I did see the no 3rd party run part ...
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 09:55 PM
Jun 2014

which I would think would be a blatant 1st Amendment freedom of speak/association problem.

But that said ...

Every Democrat who voted for Cochran yesterday while intending to vote for Childers in November broke the law. That’s fraud,” said Bryan Fischer, of the American Family Association. “If Democrats broke the law when they voted for Cochran, that’s voter fraud and this is in fact a stolen election.”


Fischer ... I know you got a sad going on; but pause for a minute and ask yourself two questions:

1) Why are ballots secret?

2) Since their secret, how are you going to prove who voted for Cochran as opposed to McDaniel? Are you admitting that you know that McDaniel has nothing to offer Black folks?

Or better yet ... SHHHHH!
 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
8. Precisely, that clause of Mississippi law is comepletely unenforceable
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 10:04 PM
Jun 2014

The law exists, BTW, from the days of Jim Crow to insure African Americans would never be able to appear on the ballot.

gwheezie

(3,580 posts)
9. racists always tell black folks
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 11:13 PM
Jun 2014

they're breaking the law when they vote.
I think it was a pretty smart move. Black voters have spoken, they will vote in 14 in Ms. Anyone running for office there better take notice.

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