Posted on 06/25/2014 4:41:53 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... An intensive strategy over the past three weeks to draw black voters to the polls and spare Cochran from what once seemed like a certain defeat at the hands of a tea party challenger in Tuesday’s GOP runoff appears to have worked.
Voter data shows that turnout rose sharply in Tuesday’s election in black areas of the state over the initial June 3 primary, a runoff made necessary when Chris McDaniel narrowly edged Cochran but was unable to win 50 percent of the vote.
That suggested that not only did traditionally Democratic black voters turn out on behalf of the state’s 76-year-old white Republican senator, but they may have provided his margin of victory.
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Won the battle, may lose the war.
Of course it “worked” - as a spoiler. Is his campaign foolish enough to believe that they will support him in the general?
He’ll resign in about a year and the Haley Barbour faction will be able to replace him with a squishy moderate in his 40’s.
Write in campaign
wants to remain majority Leader. That means picking up every seat up for grabs.
In that light may think he was clever, but wait until the election in November. will make sure the DNC goes all out to oust Cochran and he will use the same tactics Cochran used. Many times over.
Yuck it up, slime. There will be a protest write in, which means no way for Cockring to win
You think Cantor loss was huge, a McDaniel write-in campaign win would be a well deserved, long due kick in the ass.
Fine, when the generals come around, deliver to black counties a party-less pamphlet stating that the Democrat candidate is trying to limit the votes of blacks THE DAY BEFORE THE VOTE.
Try it, it’s not like anyone has anything to lose with the 95% of blacks that vote democrat anyway.
Yep the dems just outsmarted the GopE again, since the seat is now guaranteed to go dem via the same vote fraud used by cochrane to win the primary.
>> GOPe racist politics. Spit.
The GOP-e is in bed with the Left.
Based on the 2012 Senate election, the D vote is about 40% Since it was a POTUS year, that number could be lower in 2014.
Murkowski as a write-in in Alaska was able to win with 39% but the D vote was only 23.
McDaniels as a protest write-in this fall. Yes!!!!!!!
“Stand fast, Mississippians!”
No more money to candidates running in open primary states! Even a state as backward and liberal as NM has closed primaries.
The primaries are open primaries, which mean that people can vote in either one of them...but not both. So if these people have voted Dem as well (was there more than one Dem candidate?) then their votes can be disqualified.
So I do think McDaniel should challenge it, since the votes that put Cochrane over the top (not by that much, though) came from the heavily black areas of the state.
sounds like MS is going to be giving their political contributions else where, State GOP is going to suffer for these policies of allowing anyone to vote in their primaries.
Only this time Cochran and the GOPe have both screwed the pooch.
Hannity and Levin have both said flat out that they would never vote for Cochran in the general election.
Cochran is going to have to use the race card against his democrat opponent and pray it works again.
Good luck with that you nasty old pooch screwer!
It’s not ‘outsmarting’ if they’re both on the same side.
I’m struggling to find a difference between Cochran and Childers.
Both support amnesty.
Both support Obamacare.
Both will support ‘reasonable gun control’ (unless you think Mike Bloomberg stroked a check to Cochran for $250K for no good reason?)
Cochran has voted to fund planned barrenhood many times.
Both support Commiecore.
Both think $17T is a fabulous idea!
Republicans pimped blacks, turned them into political whores who serviced Cochran for a fee.
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