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Childers wins 1st District for Democrats (Dem wins Mississippi Special Election)
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal ^ | 5/13/2008 | Associated Press

Posted on 05/13/2008 7:27:22 PM PDT by Alter Kaker

Travis Childers, elected U.S. House, District 1, Mississippi. [Note: This is an AP bulletin - nothing follows]


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 110th; childers; davis; mi2008; mississippi; travischilders
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To: Norman Bates

Can anything be done to keep Bush from speaking at the Republican National Convention this year?


21 posted on 05/13/2008 7:44:50 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Karl Marx supported free trade. Does that make him a free market conservative?)
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To: NewLand; Alter Kaker
Somebody better tell the Republicans to start acting like Republicans again.

Somebody better tell the Pubbies to start acting like CONSERVATIVES again.

22 posted on 05/13/2008 7:45:39 PM PDT by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

His approval rating sinks into the teens (likely).


23 posted on 05/13/2008 7:46:31 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: Norman Bates

It is definately Bush. Has anyone seen his recent press conferences? Painful. Thank you for Roberts and Alito but man what a price we have payed for his presidency. He doesnt even fight back and defend himself.

There is no leadership anywhere in the DC based GOP establishment. Do you even seen the minority leader or whip on TV?? I dont.


24 posted on 05/13/2008 7:46:43 PM PDT by acsuc99
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To: AmericanInTokyo

The southern Dems are winning as blue collar conservatives who yearn to keep jobs home, and spendings home. The GOP talks about free trade (blue collar job loss to foreign factories), and spending more money overseas in more wars. The new winning Dem coalition will be eggheads, minorities and blue collar Dems. In the past the GOP won narrowly with the help of blue collar Dems. Twelve years of turbulent economical times, ending with wars and rumor of wars has worn the blue collar Dems out and they are willing for change. The blue collar Dems are going to learn that more turbulent change is ahead of them when Obama takes office. It will be interesting how the blue collar Dems feel in 2012.


25 posted on 05/13/2008 7:47:46 PM PDT by Fee
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To: Norman Bates

Childers, like the guy in LA, is called a “conservative.” I guess that means he will be leading some kind of revolt against Speaker Pelosi in favor of someone more centrist? Ha ha. So right leaning voters might have gone for Childers thinking he was OK when in reality he will help build the Demo majority that is moving the nation farther to the left, and closer to ruin. Pretty sad.

I was reading one blog that said the Republican Davis actually had voted several times in favor of tax increases as a state senator. I wonder if that dimmed some GOP enthusiasm for him.


26 posted on 05/13/2008 7:48:41 PM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: Clintonfatigued

What the HECK happened to the old Bush we all loved?? I man this man just does not shape perception/events anymore. He hasn’t held a 50% approval rating since just after his re-election. His entire second term has been under the water (no pun intended).


27 posted on 05/13/2008 7:48:41 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: Alter Kaker

I fear I will never see a Conservative controlled Congress in my remaining lifetime. It’s a sad state of affairs when the only difference between democrats and Republicans is that they all have never been aborted.


28 posted on 05/13/2008 7:49:37 PM PDT by gpapa
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To: Clintonfatigued
Can anything be done to keep Bush from speaking at the Republican National Convention this year?

No. But the threat of it is almost as effective.

29 posted on 05/13/2008 7:50:14 PM PDT by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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To: FJB2
What’s shameful is that even when the Republicans had their revolution in 1994 they didn’t create as larege a majority as the Dems will have in 2009.

The Dems already have a larger majority.

In 1994, the GOP won 230 House seats.

As of tonight, the Dems have 236 House seats. The Senate is another story, at least for now.

30 posted on 05/13/2008 7:50:59 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Norman Bates
What the HECK happened to the old Bush we all loved??

He never existed.

31 posted on 05/13/2008 7:51:36 PM PDT by darkangel82 (If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (Say no to RINOs))
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To: Fee
Definitely the pendulum is over on the Democrat side, if it ever was. It will pendulum right back, in 2016, maybe in 2012. That is just now fickle and shifting the American voter has been for 100 or more years.

But for now, as most countries around the world can see, America is definitely Democrat Territory this year, I believe thanks to Bush, McCain AND various multiple factors you have cited.

Drat! We really needed a Ronald Reagan to get us out of this mess.

Not a Nelson Rockefeller.

32 posted on 05/13/2008 7:52:05 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Your Free To Vote 4 McCain. I Won't. I Don't Want To Hear Your Gripes Thru His 4 Years of RINO-ism!)
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To: acsuc99

Yep once again:

1. The failure of conservative commentators

2. Conservative bloggers

to defend a conservative president, come back to haunt them. Of course they choose to blame the President who is not running for reelection. But then again this is the GOP history. They threw Nixon to the wolves and were blown out in 1974. The Dims on the other hand defended the indefensible with Clinton and minimized their losses. But go ahead, blame the most conservative president since prior to WWII.


33 posted on 05/13/2008 7:52:40 PM PDT by JLS
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To: Clintonfatigued

Republicans and conservatives have just lost their nerve. We’ve just had power “too” long. (Ha.)


34 posted on 05/13/2008 7:52:50 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: JLS

Old history. But Nixon threw himself to the wolves.


35 posted on 05/13/2008 7:53:35 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: Alter Kaker

“This is the GOP’s third straight special election loss, after Illinois and Louisiana. Somebody better tell the Republicans to start acting like Republicans again.”

These elections reflect mostly local issues. If you are a Republican and have a Republicam running in your area, make sure he/she knows the issues and is on the right side of them. Then, get your friends and neighbors behind the candidate. The Dems are beating us in the neighborhoods.


36 posted on 05/13/2008 7:54:23 PM PDT by elpadre
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To: Old Sarge

I’m not sure it’s because they aren’t conservative enough. It’s the 20% in the middle that can go either way. Right now they’re convinced that we’re in another great depression and nobody has a job despite the low 5% unemployment rate. They were also the ones who’d tell pollsters that the economy was terrible in 2005. Oh, and they actually think that the Dems can do something about it by taking it to the eeeevil corporations and the rich.


37 posted on 05/13/2008 7:54:35 PM PDT by Round 9
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Rocky was considerably to the left of McCain. Even Giuliani. Even Nixon. Even Ford.


38 posted on 05/13/2008 7:54:53 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: All

Well thank Rush and his stupid Operation Chaos for this loss. So many Republicans crossed over to vote for “big hips” that there weren’t enough left to vote in the MI primary.

I knew this (playing silly games with our votes) was a stupid idea from the start and now it is hurting us.


39 posted on 05/13/2008 7:55:25 PM PDT by ClarenceThomasfan (Rush wouldn't lift a finger to help Fred or Duncan, yet he shills for Hillary. Rush is a fat idiot.)
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To: The_Republican

There is no way to put a positive spin on this.


40 posted on 05/13/2008 7:55:39 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Karl Marx supported free trade. Does that make him a free market conservative?)
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