Posted on 11/19/2018 7:35:42 AM PST by C19fan
Nearly a year ago, Democrats pulled off an upset in the South against a Republican candidate hobbled by controversy. Now, they’re hoping to duplicate that feat in Mississippi, in the last Senate election of the cycle.
Virtually no prognosticator has given the party much of a chance. But this past week, the Republican in the race, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), has been caught twice making wild and insensitive remarks: the first expressing comfort attending a public hanging; the second openly musing about suppressing Democratic votes. All of which has encouraged the party to rethink whether the long shot Democrat in the race, former U.S. secretary of agriculture Mike Espy, is really that big a long shot at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
I’d bet that if Ms. Smith hadn’t run, McDaniel would have received over 50%.
Smith is perhaps proving McDaniel’s point.
“The reason there is a run off is because of Chris McDaniel. He split the GOP vote so Ms. Smith did not get over 50%. “
And it’s a damned shame Chris didn’t win. This woman is another train wreck! And if you think things were bad in FL and GA, you should not forget AL and MS. The people in these two states have the intellectual capacity of an amoeba.
If this is close or a loss we need to do some hard thinking as to how we are campaigning as a party. As the democrats go hard left we seem to be losing ground in very republican states. We should be blowing out the democrats in solid red states. It’s easy to point at Texas or Florida where out of staters might be closing the gap, but in Mississippi, Alabama or Montana, we should dominate. Something is not adding up as to the citizens belief systems and how they are voting.
An R jersey is better than a D jersey, but just barely in this instance.
Exactly...Smith is not qualified but the GOP-e decided they wanted a RINO
With all due respect to southerners 50 and over, YES your younger groups are still less liberal than the northern ones, and in lesser numbers.
But to say they haven’t been affected by the country’s culture change over the past 50 years would be a lie.
They have been indoctrinated outside of the house from the moment they could talk and walk.
I believe this is having a detrimental effect, as well as illegals.
blah. stupid column. won’t happen. nonetheless, people on FR will scream like two year olds girls about how mcdaniel is God, moore got ripped of, and hyde-smith is a LOUSY RINO ESTABLISHMENT CRONY-CAPITALIST GOPE UNIPARTY BUSHITE OPEN BORDER GLOBALIST CORPORATIST FREE-TRAITOR NEOCON MULTILATERALIST SCUMBAG!!
Don’t think for a minute Montana, Mississippi and Alabama aren’t experiencing an influx of out of staters...Montana is dealing with Californians and MS/AL, especially in the gulf coast regions, is dealing with out of state influx.
I’m sorry, but I’m going to need more proof of “tripping all over herself” than the tainted, pro-demonrat opinion of The Daily Beast. Tina Brown should be in jail for the crimes against journalism she’s committed and the first thing had NOTHING to do with race at all and was, rather, a democrat fantasy of something they wanted her to say.
This woman may be a RINO but that’s beyond the point, our side should NEVER participate in a partisan media scheme to “get” the duly elected republican candidate. Ever. It was wrong for Richard Shelby to not support Roy Moore and it’s wrong for our side to jump into bed with Tina Brown... and get metaphorical chlamydia.
Why is there never any concern when a Democrat candidate makes wild and insensitive remarks?
that guy is from californicate, where they are smart enough to elect jerry brown, adam schitt, kamala harris, and DiFi.
them are the smart kids.
did they just call it a “jungle primary”? isn’t that racist?
tea party members will vote hard for the republican. espy is toast.
Sure, but also people from up north keep on moving down here. Miss isn’t immune; Texas will fall as well. Simple demographics and that people screw up their state and move to another.
This is a psy-ops piece designed to dishearten Mississippi voters. Those who call Hyde-Smith a rino are helping the creep who wrote this piece of BS.
Everything that could be an indicator of victory points to Hyde-Smith but here are the biggest ones: in the only post election day poll she leads 50/36 with 14 points “undecided.”
To win Espy has to pull EVERY SINGLE UNDECIDED vote.
There is no election day registration, no early voting, and only photo ID voting.
With the exception of Hinds County Espy’s counties are all in places where less than 12k voted while the combined Hyde-Smith and McDaniel vote won counties where 25k 34k 40k 45k and 50k voters voted. Big counties are where voters live closer together and are easy to reach; small counties take much more work to pull out voters from.
McDaniel has endorsed Hyde-Smith and already moved 8 1/2 points of his support to her.
Trump will be doing two rallies on Monday and very few will have already voted because there are no “no excuses” absentee voting and only people 65 and over can absentee with out excuse.
I would ask the admin to pull this psy-ops piece and well, pretty much anything from Tina Brown’s Daily Beast.
The entire RAT cheating brigade must be on the ground down there right now.
They can win this, and restore Collins and Murkowski to their veto over Supreme Court nominees, unless the GOP is working as hard as the RATs are this week - which, of course, they are not.
Well, it doesn’t help if you publically spout what some consider racist remarks.
There actually was a lot of suppression of blacks in Mississippi (and my state of Alabama) but it was white people giving them their due in the end. The Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights Act, etc., were external pressures but in the end, it was Christian White People of those states that accepted God is father of us all and like the Samaritan and the Jew, we must always help each other despite or differences and become equals.
Now I actually think that blacks and whites in the South get along better than other parts of the country. Controversial but true.
Just like Todd Atkin on rape and abortion, why do we keep making these divisive statements? All Atkin should have said is he was against rape, rather than explain a woman rarely gets pregnant from it.
Now with Hyde-Smith, she makes statements about hangings in what we know was an area once infamous for its lynchings of blacks. Why talk about this!!!???
It just becomes a bloody flag for the democrats to wave around.
I think it would have been enough to say you stood by the death penalty when warranted and you are a strong opponent of criminality. Why get into the aspects of HOW to put murders to death, like being hanged? NOT a thing to discuss in a divisive election year.
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