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Cochran wins

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Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran beat back an insurgent challenge from conservative state Sen. Chris McDaniel Tuesday night, mounting a surprise political comeback that likely extinguishes the tea party’s hopes of toppling an incumbent U.S. senator in the midterm elections.
With 98 percent of precincts reporting, Cochran led McDaniel by less than 2 percentage points – 4,798 votes out of more than 360,000 ballots cast. The Associated Press called the race for the incumbent at around 11 p.m. Eastern.


Cochran’s narrow victory marks the climax of a tumultuous race that turned into a full-blown Republican civil war after he and McDaniel deadlocked in a June 3 primary. Forced into a three-week runoff campaign, the two candidates leaned heavily on the support of powerful national groups to wage a slash-and-burn campaign on both sides.


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.
 
All that tea party rabble money lost.

LOL

I love the absolute rancor over at insane sites like Free Republic...how dare the dems cross over and vote for Cochran. Of course, when Limbaugh called for the exact same thing between Obama and Hillary, it was OK..because..uh...Benghazi!

The grown ups won, the republican party isn't going to let the crazy hillbilly rabble take it's senate seats. But, in the end, it is just another bumfight.
 
open primary i believe
wonder if it was the democrats who pushed thad over the top
 
great... another lifelong politician keep his job as a lifelong politician.


mah, he's not my congrescritter, so it doesn't really matter.
 
Cochran pulls out the win with a broad base of support. [/FONT][/COLOR]

Ha! No kidding, less than 5,000 votes out of 360,000. Why, it's a landslide!

The RINOs and Liberals can rest easy now.
 
Cochran's main reason to rehire him, he brings back $3 for every dollar sent, won out. Since only 84,000 folks voted DEM in the first round, none who could vote here, there was still a huge pool to draw from for this Red state to keep getting its gov't bennies. 60,000 more people voted in this 2nd round .
 
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The crazy right always loses because of african americans.

LOL
 
Ha! No kidding, less than 5,000 votes out of 360,000. Why, it's a landslide!

Never said its a landslide.

The RINOs and Liberals can rest easy now.
"RINO" such a overused term. Once you realize that both Democrats and Republicans are big tent parties the term RINO goes away.
 
Cochran's main reason to rehire him, he brings back $3 for every dollar sent, won out. Since only 84,000 folks voted DEM in the first round, none who could vote here, there was still a huge pool to draw from for this Red state to keep getting its gov't bennies. 60,000 more people voted in this 2nd round .

yup, he's an earmark machine.... well schooled in diverting federal dollars to his state.

and somehow, liberals here are happy with that.... what a weird world.:roll:
 
Ha! No kidding, less than 5,000 votes out of 360,000. Why, it's a landslide!

The RINOs and Liberals can rest easy now.

Every time Cochran votes to support McConnell's filibuster, I'll remember what a RINO he is .
 
I don't think Cochran was pushed over the top by Democrats. If members of other parties participating in the primary were smart, they would've voted for the Tea Party so that Democrats could actually have a better chance in the general election.
 
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I don't think Cochran was pushed over the top by Democrats. If carpetbaggers to the primary were smart, they would've voted for the Tea Party so that Democrats could actually have a better chance in the general election.

A carpet bagger is someone who runs for office in a district they just moved to or do not live in.
 
Black Democratic Mississippians kept a racist tea bagger from having a shot at a senate seat...
Nothing to see here ...move along...
 
Black Democratic Mississippians kept a racist tea bagger from having a shot at a senate seat...
Nothing to see here ...move along...


Hey, look at it this way, the GOP finally got out the black vote!
 
Black Democratic Mississippians kept a racist tea bagger from having a shot at a senate seat...
Nothing to see here ...move along...
I would call it stupid, silly Democrats--helping to elect the guy you have less of a chance of beating in the fall.
Former Congressman T. Childers was a good DEM recruit and could have beaten McDaniel.
Red-state turn-overs are now down to KY and GA, unless the TEA-party makes a comeback in KS or TN.

And, who won the GOP governor's nomination in your state tonite ?
 
I would call it stupid, silly Democrats--helping to elect the guy you have less of a chance of beating in the fall.
Former Congressman T. Childers was a good DEM recruit and could have beaten McDaniel.
Red-state turn-overs are now down to KY and GA, unless the TEA-party makes a comeback in KS or TN.

And, who won the GOP governor's nomination in your state tonite ?

Yeah, but Limbaugh said it was OK to cross party lines to muck up a result in a primary...remember?

Irony...so.......ironic.
 
A carpet bagger is someone who runs for office in a district they just moved to or do not live in.
His point was that DEMs shouldn't have voted for Cochran--he'll be much stronger than McDaniel in the general.
I agree with him--Dems are stupid like that.
As we now hear with over 800,000 of them not registered in GA .
 
Yeah, but Limbaugh said it was OK to cross party lines to muck up a result in a primary...remember?

Irony...so.......ironic.
I'm fine with crossing over as long as you vote for the least electable GOP in the general, in this case McDaniel.
This could be a new pattern for the Priebus-led RNC-
to claim the incumbent ELITES bring home the bacon-
I expect Moran in KS and Alexander in TN to use the same strategy .
 
Someone with a twitter account name of Gus says so then it must be true?Do yo actually having any credible links that McDaniel said that?

IT IS A FREAKING JOKE! DO YOU HAVE NO ABILITY TO SENSE SATIRE?

Xenu wept.

I am mortified and embarrassed for carbon based life forms that you can't understand the snarky satire that went into that post.

More money for public schools...
 
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I'm fine with crossing over as long as you vote for the least electable GOP in the general, in this case McDaniel.
This could be a new pattern for the Priebus-led RNC-
to claim the incumbent ELITES bring home the bacon-
I expect Moran in KS and Alexander in TN to use the same strategy .

In my state, as an Independent, I can request a Rep or Dem or Libertarian or Green party ballot in the primary.

Only problem is, not enough independents know this so they can keep the kooks from winning.
 
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