I saw this Friday night. I lazilly waited for someone else to post it. ;D Geoff Davis was talking about it as a reason to maybe wait rather than just endorse Nunnelee.
Nunnelee has the right profile to win the seat, Childer’s won as Fieldmarshadj points out because the last Republican came from the “wrong” part of the district, the same (very stupid) reason we lost Maryland CD-1. But McGlowan is good too. An attractive and intelligent woman.
I envy the primary voters of the district who can be happy either way.
She’s from Oxford, so she can’t get tagged with being a Memphis suburban candidate. I’m loathe to admit it, but I have to wonder if her race might harm her here. The district has a fairly high (27%) Black population, and there is polarization here (at least one rural White Dem county which hadn’t gone GOP in recent memory clearly did so because you-know-who was the Presidential nominee, while conversely some marginal counties went to Zero precisely because he ginned up Black turnout).
If she got the nomination, I’d hope some of the more racist-minded Whites would see that she’s not of the Jackson ilk of Black politicos (read: Bennie Thompson), and give her their consideration. Then again, I’d expect her to have more problems getting Blacks to vote for her, as they haven’t shown that much more interest in Republicans in some of these Southern districts. Of course, if she could crack 25% of their vote, that would be enough to overcome any problems on the GOP side.
It would be nice to see in the upcoming Congress some breakthroughs with Black GOP candidates, especially ones who can forcefully present a Conservative message. Lacking them is partly why we’ve had so much trouble with getting more than 10% of the Black vote. The more we elect, the more the message is heard and the party becomes less seen as the party of White folks and viewed as the party of opportunity for all races, the more we get to critical mass with having an excellent representation in office from top to bottom across the country and breaking the one-party monopoly, as it should be.
Sad when the more conservative candidate can’t be deemed a winner in my county, Desoto, which will go pubbie 100% of the time.