Analysis Mississippi Tea Party enraged by blacks voting Republican

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Black voters fearing Tea Party challenger turn out to vote in Republican primary

Mississippi Tea Party enraged by blacks voting Republican
By Neil Macdonald, CBC News Posted: Jun 26, 2014 5:00 AM ET

A few weeks ago, Mississippi Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel came up with a euphemism for the thousands of voters who were suddenly supporting his opponent in that state’s Republican primary: “Liberal Democrats,” he called them.

Liberal Democrats were infiltrating and perverting a Republican contest, he warned bitterly. His campaign team would dispatch monitors to voting stations, on full alert for infiltration by liberal Democrats.

There is, of course, a more relevant and more accurate way to describe the Mississippians who provoked McDaniel’s outrage, and who in the end denied him the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate race later this year: “Black voters.”

McDaniel, though, consistently refused to acknowledge the racial reality of what was happening, right to the end. In his angry non-concession speech Tuesday night, he kept right on ranting from the podium about liberal Democrats.