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On the dismissal of the Chris McDaniel challenge in Mississippi
Hotair ^ | 08/30/2014 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 08/30/2014 11:06:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 08/30/2014 11:06:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The Mississippi GOPe is the good ol’ boys club.


2 posted on 08/30/2014 11:10:54 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: SeekAndFind
But the Cochran team immediately countered by citing a 1959 state supreme court decision …
IOW, they countered with a liberal decision.
3 posted on 08/30/2014 11:13:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: SeekAndFind

He should immediately follow the senator from Alaska’s lead and announce a write-in campaign. Screw the corrupt GOPe!


4 posted on 08/30/2014 11:15:30 AM PDT by FreeInWV (Have you had enough change yet?)
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To: Jim Robinson

If I lived in Mississippi could not vote for Thad.


5 posted on 08/30/2014 11:16:40 AM PDT by Josa
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To: SeekAndFind

The GOP-e learned nothing from 2012.

If the Mississippi GOP-e isn’t interested in the conservative wing of the base, then the conservative wing of the base should sit this one out.

And—before you flame—please explain to me what significant changes re Obama and the DIM agenda will take place if the Republicans capture the Senate.


6 posted on 08/30/2014 11:17:30 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: Olog-hai

My first impression as well. The Cochran team has behaved EXACTLY the same way that dhimmicrats do. How could any conservative (or even Republican) ever support such disingenuity?


7 posted on 08/30/2014 11:19:19 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: SeekAndFind

McDaniel’s error was in not anticipating the vile GOPe effort and its potential. Truth be known, there should have been no *need* for anticipating because it was plain to see just how desperate the GOPe campaign effort would get well in advance of election day.

The papers to contest the election should have been filled out, in advance, weeks ahead of the election.

This is what prepared, proactive people do. They do not get overconfident. They play out scenarios where everything goes wrong and prepare for them.

Politics, like it or not, is a big money, slash and burn deadly serious game. Amateurs most often get amateur results. I’m sorry for but not surprised at the results.


8 posted on 08/30/2014 11:19:29 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: Jim Robinson

He will have to give up. I would recommend all tea partiers in Missippi stay home; let the dims have this one.


9 posted on 08/30/2014 11:22:10 AM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: Arm_Bears

The GOP-e did learn something—they learned to double down on liberalism, like the other half of the Uniparty (the Dems). Helps keep “shellacking” like the 2010 comeback at bay, after all.


10 posted on 08/30/2014 11:22:41 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: FreeInWV
He should immediately follow the senator from Alaska’s lead and announce a write-in campaign.

He'd have to successfully challenge Mississippi's "sore loser" law that prohibit such write-in campaigns.

11 posted on 08/30/2014 11:23:38 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: FreeInWV

” announce a write-in campaign.”

I don’t believe that’s allowable in that state.


12 posted on 08/30/2014 11:23:59 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Jim Robinson
The Mississippi GOPe is the good ol’ boys club.

The very same people who probably put this judge on the bench in the first place are the ones supporting Cochran. I'm surprised he took this long to issue his ruling except that by waiting he reduced the amount of time McDaniel may have had to do anything at the federal level.

14 posted on 08/30/2014 11:25:17 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Drew68
He'd have to successfully challenge Mississippi's "sore loser" law that prohibit such write-in campaigns.

I believe the law says that having lost in the primary, McDaniel can't be on the ballot as an independent or representative of any party. But does that prevent people from writing in his name? And if enough people did that then could they really prevent him from taking the seat? A colossal long-shot to be sure, but it worked for Murkowski.

15 posted on 08/30/2014 11:29:13 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: SeekAndFind

McDaniel filed the challenge 41 days after the election; McGehee said that under state law the challenge had to be filed within 20 days.


You’d think it’d be 20 days after the *certification* of the election, not just after the day of election.


16 posted on 08/30/2014 11:29:14 AM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: DoodleDawg

The votes aren’t counted for write-ins. Wouldn’t matter how many he got.


17 posted on 08/30/2014 11:30:57 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Jim Robinson

The tea party candidates need to stop beating a dead horse and move on. They are not wanted in the GOP and never have been.


18 posted on 08/30/2014 11:32:27 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Jim Robinson
Eh, elections aren't important.  It's the paperwork that is important! /s


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19 posted on 08/30/2014 11:34:56 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: Jim Robinson

In citing the 20 day rule on prior case precident, it’s pretty clear that the judge in as much does not question the evidence that in fact McDaniels may have been the winner, merely supports the the process which makes the true vote of the people null and void.


20 posted on 08/30/2014 11:36:52 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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