Mississippi: A Blue State?

May 13th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: Politics

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by Mark Adams

3 out of 4 House seats are now in the Democratic Party’s hands!

With 89% of the precincts reporting Democrat Travis Childers won Mississippi’s 1st District 52% to 48% in this traditional GOP stronghold. This is the third Republican district to embrace the Democrats in as many months, Robo-calls by the President and Laura Bush or John McCain couldn’t save it, a surprise appearance by Dick Cheney couldn’t save it.

Not even race baiting comparisons to Barack Obama worked there, unlike what seems to have happened in West By God — which evidently still prides itself on it’s bigotry despite owing its very existence to a rejection of the break-away slave-owning Confederacy.

If I were an aid to a Republican politician, one thing I’d set aside time to do this summer is updating my resume.  It’s going to be bleak for these folks.


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  1. Ara Rubyan May 14th, 2008 6:26 am :

    This is a very significant race — but not because the Dems think they can win every one of these in the Republican base districts. Instead, they think they can drain the coffers of the Republicans by forcing them to play defense in districts that should be untouchable.

    The Democrats already have a significant financial edge going into the election cycle….and it just got a whole lot bigger.

  2. Mark Adams May 14th, 2008 6:57 am :

    Can’t think of a better way for them to waste their ill gotten gains. Defending their base enclaves instead of fighting in the purple areas.

    Those aging Deaniacs (those DFH’s) are going to break their arms patting themselves on the back, congratulating themselves on “their” 50 state strategy.

  3. Ara Rubyan May 14th, 2008 8:45 am :

    Hold on — I know success has a thousand fathers (and failure is a lonely bastard) but who else is on the short list of 50-state-strategy claimants?

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