Methinks you’re whistling past the graveyard. Conservatives’ inability to defeat Graham or Cochran in the conservative strongholds of South Carolina and Mississippi is a dire sign. We’ve got to do a much better job of organizing against such Democrats-lite.
I agree with some of that. Whether it is Mississippi or New York it is still politics and entrenched political machines have an strong advantage. Mississippi has been sending Cochran (with an ACU rating of 88) to DC since 1978. So they have been OK with him or they would not have been doing that. So a new guy comes along and almost wins. Not bad.