Posted on 04/23/2008 5:06:50 PM PDT by neverdem
In yet another alarming sign for the GOP's prospect's this fall, last night Democrats came within an inch of stealing one of the most Republican districts in the Deep South. In the special election to replace now-Senator Roger Wicker in Mississippi's 1st Congressional District, Democrat Travis Childers fell just 400 votes short of the 50% plus one mark, which would have avoided a run-off and won the seat outright.
Still, Democrats are ecstatic that their candidate won 2,000 more votes overall than the Republican candidate, Southaven Mayor Greg Davis. With 100% of precincts reporting, Childers won 49.4% to Davis' 46.3%. Furthermore, when Childers' vote total is combined with the votes from the other Democrat on the ballot yesterday, Steve Holland, Democratic candidates garnered 50.6%.
That's no small feat in a district that should have been should have been an easy save for the GOP; Wicker won his first election in 1994 with 63% of the vote and only dipped below the two-thirds mark in the 2006 election, when he won 66%. President Bush won the area, based in the northwest quadrant of the state, with 62% in 2004, a twenty-five point margin.
"Mississippi's First Congressional District is ruby red, and the fact that Travis Childers won 2,000 more votes and two-thirds of the district's counties is a major problem for Republicans now and heading into November," Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokeswoman Kyra Jennings told Real Clear Politics.
Republicans blamed Davis' poor showing on a bitter GOP primary. Davis beat his Republican challenger, Glenn McCullough, the former mayor of Tupelo, by just 500 votes out of 32,000 cast, while Childers bested Holland by 14 points. On his website, Holland posted an open letter offering unqualified support for Childers, while McCullough, in a statement, urged Republicans to unite behind GOP candidates...
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Egads!
Reps are asleep at the wheel. They deserve what is going to happen to them. Bush malaise syndrome.
Can anyone be a "past" crony of the clintons...unless they die, I mean.
What does this phrase mean? I've not heard it before.
I believe that this year the same thing will happen. The dems will probably easily have over 60 seats in the senate and a veto proof margin in the house.
The GOP just doesn't care and Bush and the previous congress has done more harm to the Republicans than the dems could ever hope to have done.
Why doesn’t the GOP counter this trend by putting forth the most liberal, left of center candidates that they can find, especially for POTUS?
I’m sure that will work....oh, wait.
Hard-fought primaries in special elections almost invariable hurt the candidates who win. There isn’t time to make up. We’ve already lost a couple of seats this time around to that kind of act.
Hopefully, with another 3 weeks before the runoff, people will realise that the winning republican isn’t just walking through to the seat — I’m betting in a 66% district a lot of republicans figured they could stay home to “teach the candidate a lesson”.
The GOP is a party without a leader.
The Democrats didn’t recapture the House after the Civil War until 1874 (and the Senate not until 1879). The highest number of Democrats in Congress wasn’t until after the 1936 elections when the GOP plunged to holding only 89 out of 435 seats in the House and 17 out of 96 in the Senate. That was when FDR attempted a hijacking of the Supreme Court which had a GOP-majority bench, the only thing to keep FDR from absolute dictatorial control. After that, the GOP regained enough numbers in 1938 to put the kibosh on that.
It refers to an anatomical circular formation of the mouth due to excessive sucking and blowing of a male anatomical body part. Democrats readily embrace and support homosexuality and wish to push the activity upon those that find it repugnant and against their principles. Since one of the pillars of the Democrat platform is the acceptance of homosexuality, those that support the DNC are round mouth Democrats.
Maybe not, see this post from this morning regarding liberal political activists targeting the locals—
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005716/posts
But they have direction, constantly moving to the LEFT.
Gill sounds like a small potatoes Soros. Soros fed tons of $ last election cycle very successfully through the gays to run campaigns to get rid of George Allen and Rick Santorum. Couldn’t have those conservatives moving ever closer to the WH. They were not just defeated, but were DESTROYED since both were young and dangerous and they might come back and run another race someday otherwise.
“The dems will probably easily have over 60 seats in the senate and a veto proof margin in the house.”
Nonsense. Its bizarre that in one post we hear that McCain is a shoo-in and another
THE FUTURE WILL HAPPEN BASED ON WHAT WE DO.
YOUR ACTIONS WILL MAKE CANDIDATES WIN OR LOSE.
I know. I’ve been there. Some Candidates win races by less than 100 votes. One volunteers efforts can win more votes than that.
This Obama-endorsed Childers got a few hundred votes more.
The grassroots effort to get just a few more votes is the difference between victory and defeat.
BTW, *we* are the GOP. Do you care? If yes, support your local GOP candidate. Signs, letters-to-editor, walk-the-block, do all that stuff.
If you do that and others do that, then we wont have a left-wing American Govt in 2009. If you dont, it will happen like you predict. Do you care enough to stop the doomsday scenario?
Nonsense. They have leaders, and they have an agenda. This is just the chickens coming home to roost. Just desserts.
Too true...the Democrats seem to be in charge.
If McCain gets in it’ll only be because the Democrats have someone even worse. What a mess!
So what are you saying their agenda is? Record gas prices and food hoarding?
O’Reilly just said gas will be $6/gallon in a year. Hard to laugh that off.
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