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tgards79

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Tue Nov 27, 2018, 11:07 AM Nov 2018

BTRTN Mississippi U.S. Senate Runoff Prediction and Call to Action: Last Chance to Make a Difference

Can Cindy Hyde-Smith hang on (no pub intended) despite her many racist gaffes? And will you make any calls to help Mike Espy win?
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/11/btrtn-mississippi-us-senate-runoff.html

"In the post-Election Day period, she declared that if a supporter “invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the first row,” and then she expressed support, publicly, for voter suppression of activities targeting liberals. There is also a controversial picture of her from her younger days attending an all-white private school, a so-called “seg school,” created to allow parents to avoid sending their children to integrated schools. The picture shows her posing with her fellow cheerleaders, arrayed around a man dressed up as a Confederate general, holding a Dixie flag.

All of this has apparently tightened the race. Polling had shown Hyde-Smith ahead by double digits. But while there has been no public polling since the gaffes, there is a report of a private, internal GOP poll that has the margin at a mere five points..."

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