A write in campaign CAN win.
Look at the June 3 results here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-tran/elections/2014-primaries-june3
(Mississippi results are down the page)
Notice the top vote getter that night was McDaniel. The ENTIRE Democrat slate didn’t get HALF the votes of EITHER Republican.
I don’t think Cochran will get DEMOCRAT votes in the general election, do you?
McDaniel could repeat what he did on June 3 and be the next Senator from Mississippi.
Absolutely not.
If Cochran were to repeat his strategy in November, he could easily overcome the write-in by McDaniel. All he has to do is tell the dem voters, “You know your candidate has no chance to win, so why not vote for the devil you know, and so keep out the Tea Party devil.”
Right. The way I look at it, 90,000 folks want a Democrat, 153,000 actually want Cochran but 180,000 want McDaniel.
Cochran bought the roughly 35,000 Democrat votes.
I wouldn’t be surprised many of the Democrat voters were illegally voting in both runoffs. Best case is they have 120k dem voters.
McDaniel could win a write-in