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Cochran wins

When you're the GOP winner, and hard leftist are happy you won, the country loses.

actually, it is because the reich wing kkkook lost that causes those on the left to be so pleased
 
actually, it is because the reich wing kkkook lost that causes those on the left to be so pleased
That you so try to demonize and dehumanize those with a differing view from yours makes your point of view null and void.

You try to paint the Tea Party as racist, not because there is any actual evidence of this, but because the media told you too. You paint them as Nazi, not because Nazi's are Right Wing, but because you have no blasted clue what the Nazi's were (a mix of leftwing and nationalist/racist policies blended into the mixer a mad mans mind, shaken AND stirred for good measure) and you call them Kook's because you have no actual intellectual rebuttal to the Tea Party platform. For you, the thought of people freed from Government regulation is horrifying, people might make wrong choices and rich people might get richer and poor people might not have 99 weeks of unemployment, housing, meals and bills paid for! The horror!
 
i don't think the republican base is going to forgive Cochran for appealing to African american voters to to vote for him. i heard that mcdanials might consider a write-in campagin to get on the november ballot. if that happens... then Childers has a shot at winning.
Oh please, stop the race baiting.
McDaniel is neither a racisit or a "kook" as some Republican elites and Democrats love to claim. He simply stands for less federal government growth, fiscal responsibility, and secured borders and constitutional first principles. It's Republicans like former Mayor Bloomberg who believe in things like food police, crony capitalism (corporatism), amnesty and carbon footprints, and a huge welfare system that dropped a quarter million into Cochran's coffers that wanted Cochran to win.

Cochran won but not within his own party. It took the others to drag that old man across the finish line. Does that stick in some folks crawl? You bet. Now McDaniel doesn't need to run as an Independent. His supporters just won't show up to vote on election day and the Democrat will win. To them they might as well let a Democrat take the office than hold their nose to vote for a guy who pretends to be a Republican. One way or another, Cochran is finished.
 
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Read more: Mississippi primary election results: Thad Cochran leads in nail-biter - POLITICO.com

Cochran pulls out the win with a broad base of support. [/FONT][/COLOR]

Slash and burn campaigns in primaries often lead to the opposite party's victory in November. But this is Mississippi and there is 4 month of healing time between now and November. We will have to wait 2-3 weeks for the dust to settle to see whether the slash and burn will effect Cochran in the general.
 
open primary i believe
wonder if it was the democrats who pushed thad over the top

I haven't seen any exit polls and it is hard to say. But Childers, the Democratic nominee was urging Mississippi Democrats to vote for McDaniel as Childers thought he would be easier to beat in November. Now the national news media got caught up in Cochran wanting Democrats to support him, but the national media remained pretty silent on Childers push for his fellow Mississippi Democrats to vote for McDaniel in the runoff. We really won't know until some exit polls are published. Now if you were a Mississippi Democrat who would you be more likely to listen to? Childers, your Democratic nominee and vote for McDaniel if you did vote in the runoff or to Cochran, a Republican whom the Mississippi Democratic party wanted to see defeated for a long, long time. I think I would listen more to my nominee than a Republican who was asking for my help. But we shall see.
 
That you so try to demonize and dehumanize those with a differing view from yours makes your point of view null and void.

You try to paint the Tea Party as racist, not because there is any actual evidence of this, but because the media told you too. You paint them as Nazi, not because Nazi's are Right Wing, but because you have no blasted clue what the Nazi's were (a mix of leftwing and nationalist/racist policies blended into the mixer a mad mans mind, shaken AND stirred for good measure) and you call them Kook's because you have no actual intellectual rebuttal to the Tea Party platform. For you, the thought of people freed from Government regulation is horrifying, people might make wrong choices and rich people might get richer and poor people might not have 99 weeks of unemployment, housing, meals and bills paid for! The horror!


But there is no denying that the TEA Party is anti-crony capitalism, pro-small government, and a staunch defender of Israel just like the Nazis would have been.
 
Obama got 44% of the vote in MS in 2012 without campaigning there, which can be spun several ways.
McDaniel had already made a ton of mistakes, just waiting for Fall commercials.

He was easily another Akin/Mourdock, and I heard one of his supporters talk today of "legitimate votes",
in reference to enforcing a 1942 Jim Crow law.

Akin and Mourdock didn't just hurt the GOP in MO and IN--they helped drag the GOP down .

... or more likely, another Ted Cruz..... I agree the guy had the potential to shoot himself (and his party) in the foot with a bazooka like so many tea party buffoons before him, but Mississippi is much, much "redder" than Missouri and Indiana. I am not confident that we would get the same outcome. I think we would just get another buffoon in the Senate.
 
I haven't seen any exit polls and it is hard to say. But Childers, the Democratic nominee was urging Mississippi Democrats to vote for McDaniel as Childers thought he would be easier to beat in November. Now the national news media got caught up in Cochran wanting Democrats to support him, but the national media remained pretty silent on Childers push for his fellow Mississippi Democrats to vote for McDaniel in the runoff. We really won't know until some exit polls are published. Now if you were a Mississippi Democrat who would you be more likely to listen to? Childers, your Democratic nominee and vote for McDaniel if you did vote in the runoff or to Cochran, a Republican whom the Mississippi Democratic party wanted to see defeated for a long, long time. I think I would listen more to my nominee than a Republican who was asking for my help. But we shall see.

No question that Childers would prefer to face McDaniel. He is a much weaker opponent in a state-wide race. But, as a Progressive, I will take Cochran over McDaniel as I don't believe a Dem could beat either one in Mississippi. That said, I don't pretend to really no Mississippi politics..... its one of a few states that I have never even been to (nor do I have any desire to go).... so, I acknowledge my Mississippi ignorance.
 
I'm wondering, Democrats... why do you refer to every person to the right of you as "far right" or "ultra far right loons"... etc..it's evident in nearly everyone of your posts.

Probably the same reason that many on the right think Obama is a liberal.... when you are out on the wing, the fuselage looks far to the left (or far to the right, when sitting on the left wing)...
 
Probably the same reason that many on the right think Obama is a liberal.... when you are out on the wing, the fuselage looks far to the left (or far to the right, when sitting on the left wing)...

Wait...you're stating Obama's what.... a moderate liberal because he's moved to the center?
 
i don't think the republican base is going to forgive Cochran for appealing to African american voters to to vote for him. i heard that mcdanials might consider a write-in campagin to get on the november ballot. if that happens... then Childers has a shot at winning.

Here's the deal. Cochran can thank McDaniel for the heavy African American turnout that put him over the top. The strategy was a long shot, but McDaniel fueled the fire when he announced that he was sending poll watchers into only black areas of Mississippi. Blacks saw that as intimidation, and remembering what Mississippi used to be like, came out in force. Had McDaniel not done this, he probably would have won. The strategy of sending poll watchers only to black areas, even though the State of Mississippi denied access to those poll watchers, backfired on McDaniel in a major way.
 
Here's the deal. Cochran can thank McDaniel for the heavy African American turnout that put him over the top. The strategy was a long shot, but McDaniel fueled the fire when he announced that he was sending poll watchers into only black areas of Mississippi. Blacks saw that as intimidation, and remembering what Mississippi used to be like, came out in force. Had McDaniel not done this, he probably would have won. The strategy of sending poll watchers only to black areas, even though the State of Mississippi denied access to those poll watchers, backfired on McDaniel in a major way.

Cochran out flanked McDaniel fair and square.
 
No question that Childers would prefer to face McDaniel. He is a much weaker opponent in a state-wide race. But, as a Progressive, I will take Cochran over McDaniel as I don't believe a Dem could beat either one in Mississippi. That said, I don't pretend to really no Mississippi politics..... its one of a few states that I have never even been to (nor do I have any desire to go).... so, I acknowledge my Mississippi ignorance.

I'm two doors over from Mississippi and not much news gets from Mississippi to Georgia. At least political inside news. In the latest polls from Mississippi before the runoff Cochran was beating Childers by 17 and McDaniel was ahead of Childers by 12.

Here is what one Mississippi republican insider said, “I’m not surprised by the result. I believed all the time that Sen. McDaniel got all the votes he was going to get in the first primary."

For the pro-Cochran alliance, the race came down to a huge strategic gamble: That the universe of Mississippians who wanted to see Cochran back in the Senate was substantially larger than the group that voted in the primary - and that rather than serving as a death knell for Cochran, the June 3 ballot would serve instead as a wake-up call for apathetic Mississippians.

Most controversially - and perhaps most importantly - the Mississippi super PAC formed to support Cochran's reelection shifted its resources dramatically from television advertising to get-out-the-vote operations.

But this time, the Mississippi Conservative PAC didn't spend a dime on television or radio. Instead, the group - headed by Republican National Committeeman Henry Barbour -spent untold sums identifying and turning out longer-shot voters, including non-Republicans and African-Americans who were unlikely to have participated in the first vote.
 
McDaniel should have know better than to try and beat the establishment at its own game. Tea Party needs to stop supporting the GOP, period.
 
McDaniel should have know better than to try and beat the establishment at its own game. Tea Party needs to stop supporting the GOP, period.

And, if that happens, the Tea Party will never win any election, they are topped out at a certain percentage, more importantly is the percentage of people who do not like the Tea Party, if they try to run as 3rd party, it will be an enormous failure.
 
:rofl, GOOD!!!!, ANOTHER LOSS FOR THE TEA MAGGOTS!!,

Notice how that other clown was endorsed by Palin, Santorum and the rest of that toxic cesspool, of inbred radical neo-cons...
 
:rofl, GOOD!!!!, ANOTHER LOSS FOR THE TEA MAGGOTS!!,

Notice how that other clown was endorsed by Palin, Santorum and the rest of that toxic cesspool, of inbred radical neo-cons...

Other than you being told to hate them, what have they done to you personally? Do you understand the concept of irony?
 
Other than you being told to hate them, what have they done to you personally? Do you understand the concept of irony?
I hate them because they are a pro white, hypocritical group of radical anti Government scum, you like them so much go join them, and play with the losing side, i personally hope one of them runs against Hillary in 2016, so we can see the biggest landslide in the history of Government, can you see the irony of that???
 
I hate them because they are a pro white, hypocritical group of radical anti Government scum, you like them so much go join them, and play with the losing side, i personally hope one of them runs against Hillary in 2016, so we can see the biggest landslide in the history of Government, can you see the irony of that???

So much rage, how do you contain yourself? When I debate people like yourself in real life and personal, I always make sure that I keep a warm smile on my face as I destroy your progressive world ideology. We used to call it killing you with kindness, and folks such as yourself hate it. It drives you nuts that we have all the facts of history on our side, and ultimately progressives arguments boil down to "It is just because".. ;)



Tim-
 
No one thought Donnelly had a chance to win in Indiana either--and then Lugar lost to the TEA-party's Mourdock.
And Donnelly was also a strong candidate, a sitting congressman.
As for Cochran, he's a rubber-stamp to McConnell's filibuster war with Reid over amendments.
If not a 6 term limit, what ?

Indiana ain't Mississippi.
 
I'm wondering, Democrats... why do you refer to every person to the right of you as "far right" or "ultra far right loons"... etc..it's evident in nearly everyone of your posts.

No, there are moderate conservatives on this forum. It's mostly the knuckle-dragging, drooling Obama haters and the tea party extremists that get the Far Right label. Only because they work so hard for it.
 
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