I don’t know Mississippi but I do remember reading that the Cochran camp engaged dem operatives to help in the primary. Now I give weight to that report because it’s SOP in many states today to select a moderate GOP candidate in red states. John McCain’s campaign uses this to eliminate his conservative challengers. The way the dems look at it is they are going to lose the general anyways because the state is red so they might as well get a GOP candidate that works for them.
Another standard play from the playbook is to have an elections officer of an influential county drag their feet and be the last county reporting and then spring a surprise at the last moment. This has happened in numerous states now and has been proven in a few.
There’s no conspiracy thinking here, only observation and reasonable conjecture.
How does Rankin lean? Are there a lot of dems there that could have been summoned to vote for Cochran?
Rankin is a suburb of Jackson, the captal, and thus near the seat of the party establishment. If Cochran has a stronghold left, it could be rankin county. the other counties surrounding Jackson appear to have been big Cochran counties.
and it’s a big county; it could move the numbers a lot.
I’m not sure why the results have been stuck at 68% all night