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Cochran wins

jamesrage said:
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?
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NIMBY said:
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 ?
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Are you saying that I should have supported the racist Tancredo because he would be easier to defeat than Beauprez?
 
NIMBY said:
His point was that DEMs shouldn't have voted for Cochran--he'll be much stronger than McDaniel in the general.
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Can people vote in party primary run-off elections in parties they are not a member of?

A carpet bagger is not applied to the voters.

I agree with him--Dems are stupid like that.
As we now hear with over 800,000 of them not registered in GA .
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Its all voters in general.Although I think it is more due to a combination of being to lazy to pay attention to politics and apathy.It even happens with registered voters. You can look at any polling location and see that it is true.The more local an election the lower amount of voters in that polling location show up and the more national the election the more voters in that same polling location show up. So just because you got a million registered voters does not mean all of them will show up.
 
Buck Ewer said:
Are you saying that I should have supported the racist Tancredo because he would be easier to defeat than Beauprez?
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Yes--as awful as that is--would you prefer Hickenlooper or Beauprez--and how will that change things in CO?
And who did Ken Buck upset in the recent past ?
 
SocialDemocrat said:
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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Despite having pretty much the best candidate in Childers, McDaniel was still a 90%+ favorite of winning. IMHO if I were a Democrat I'd vote for Cochran as someone slightly closer than McDaniel to my point of view.
 
NIMBY said:
Every time Cochran votes to support McConnell's filibuster, I'll remember what a RINO he is .
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To the Far Right Wing nuts, anybody who actually believes in governing the country and is a Republican is a RINO. To be a 'true Republican' in their narrow little fantasy-land, you actually have to believe that Obama is the Anti-Christ and must never, ever, be treated as the President. They are so filled with hate and so wrapped up in their warped view of the world that if you don't believe what they believe, you are a RINO.
 
Buck Ewer said:
Are you saying that I should have supported the racist Tancredo because he would be easier to defeat than Beauprez?
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Tancredo is a complete, absolute nutcase of the ultra far right. Best not to ever cast a vote for someone that crazy, on the off chance that his challenger might die or something.
 
NIMBY said:
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 .
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Agreed. The Right wing loon would have been far easier for the Democrats to defeat. However, given that this is Mississippi, I don't think the Democrats have a hope in hell of winning that election regardless of who the Republican candidate was. Cochran is far less dangerous to the nation than the right wing loon.
 
what are the liberal journalist going to do now that the tea party didn't get its win in Mississippi? OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
jamesrage said:
Can people vote in party primary run-off elections in parties they are not a member of?
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It depends on the state.
Only 84,000 DEMs voted the 1st time around, since the DEM candidate Childers was understood to win.
Only these 84,000 Dems could not vote in this primary.
All other dummy Dems could vote for Cochran, making the general practically impossible to win.
Its all voters in general.
Although I think it is more due to a combination of being to lazy to pay attention to politics and apathy.
It even happens with registered voters.
You can look at any polling location and see that it is true.
The more local an election the lower amount of voters in that polling location show up and the more national the election the more voters in that same polling location show up.
So just because you got a million registered voters does not mean all of them will show up.
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More than 60,000 more people voted in this run-off than in the GOP primary .
 
NIMBY said:
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 .
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The Dems were not going to beat McDaniel in Mississippi. Letting Cochran back-in is really a preferable outcome Dems; the proverbial lesser of evils.... or, since we are speaking of Mississippi, the lesser of two weevils.
 
mtm1963 said:
what are the liberal journalist going to do now that the tea party didn't get its win in Mississippi? OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Laugh their asses off.
 
upsideguy said:
The Dems were not going to beat McDaniel in Mississippi. Letting Cochran back-in is really a preferable outcome Dems; the proverbial lesser of evils.... or, since we are speaking of Mississippi, the lesser of two weevils.
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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 .
 
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Wiggen said:
Agreed. The Right wing loon would have been far easier for the Democrats to defeat.
However, given that this is Mississippi, I don't think the Democrats have a hope in hell of winning that election regardless of who the Republican candidate was.
Cochran is far less dangerous to the nation than the right wing loon.
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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 ?
 
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Anagram said:
Despite having pretty much the best candidate in Childers, McDaniel was still a 90%+ favorite of winning. IMHO if I were a Democrat I'd vote for Cochran as someone slightly closer than McDaniel to my point of view.
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True, but when a Tea Party or other candidate from the right-wing end of the Republicans win the primary and is exposed to the media, they can make a controversial comment and crash and burn (like Todd Akin.) IDK I might be wrong, and there's no way to find out if that would occur now.
 
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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.
 
Thrilla said:
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.
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We learned it from you righties in the early 1980's, after righties started the cultural war against far lefties.
 
upsideguy said:
The Dems were not going to beat McDaniel in Mississippi. Letting Cochran back-in is really a preferable outcome Dems; the proverbial lesser of evils.... or, since we are speaking of Mississippi, the lesser of two weevils.
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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.
 
Ray410 said:
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.
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All it takes is one vote over 50%. That's called democracy.
 
beefheart said:
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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thank you for expressing this sane observation
scary when folks with whom i am normally aligned become outraged because dems voted to prevent the biggest kook in the campaign to run for office in the general election
 
Thrilla said:
great... another lifelong politician keep his job as a lifelong politician.


mah, he's not my congrescritter, so it doesn't really matter.
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It does matter. But that's for another thread.
 
SocialDemocrat said:
True, but when a Tea Party or other candidate from the right-wing end of the Republicans win the primary and is exposed to the media, they can make a controversial comment and crash and burn (like Todd Akin.) IDK I might be wrong, and there's no way to find out if that would occur now.
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careful what you wish for. mississippi - and the nation - could have ended up with a kkkook in office
 
Hopefully this is a wake up call for Cochran. He's not going to win in November without the folks that voted for McDaniel.
 
When you're the GOP winner, and hard leftist are happy you won, the country loses.
 
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