TRAVIS CHILDERS WINS CONGRESSIONAL SEAT!!!!

[Seen the light]

AP projects

Mississippi 1st District special race

Seismic! Cook PV R+10! Republican since 1994!

[bronxiteforever]

1. MONSTER D Wave in November!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TexasLady]

2. AWESOME!@!!!!

[Happyhippychick]

3. FRIGGIN' A!!!!!

[rusty quoin]

4. This is great news. n/t

[myrna minx]

5. That is amazing.

Wow!

[Coexist]

6. woot!

[LiberalAndProud]

7. Woot!

Dems RULE!

[bigwillq]

8. YAY!

:bounce:

[dave29]

9. WOW

wow wow wow

[AtomicKitten]

10. Heads up, America. A change is coming!!

[mcctatas]

11. Woo fucking hooo....

:applause:

[Tatiana]

12. Republicans ran last-minute negative ads trying to paint him as an Obama liberal.

FAIL!

[DerekJ]

35. EPIC FAIL n/t

[JasonHill]

54. haha

[Tatiana]

56. HA HA! The one lying on the ground must be the Repuke.

:rofl:

[terrell9584]

57. I should point out that

Childers publically came out and distanced himself from Obama, said he had not recieved an endorsement from Obama.

Just a point.

And this is not that extraordinary. North Mississippi remains one party Democratic at the county level, it is a cabal from that part of the state that runs the legislature, and since Reconstruction, as far as I know, it's had one Republican representing it, Wicker.


So essentially, this was the Mississippi Democratic Party, running a courthouse ring candidate, winning a Congressional race that was only held by the Republican because Mississippi has a tendency of re-electing you indefinitely once you've won your first re-election (Pork, and this is a common trait in most southern states)

This was a race that turned entirely on geography and Childers had the better geography. It is a win though. Don't expect this part of Mississippi to be voting for Musgrove in the fall, because they'd love nothing more than to have two of their own in the U.S. Senate. The U.S. Senate race is going to be fought in everything that is south of Pontotoc. We should win it, because it is a terrible political faux pas in this state to have two U.S. Senators from the same damned town, which they are. Wicker won't play well on the coast, even as he does pander. The senate seat is more Musgrove's to lose, because geography is on his side

[Tatiana]

60. Musgrove is way conservative, but he's probably the best MS has to offer.

Like Arkansas, I think we have to take what we can get. I'm nervous, given Wicker is the incumbent and MS (and pretty much most southern states, I think) like to re-elect the incumbents. However, my fundie family in Jackson just adores Musgrove and think he was a fantastic governor.

I don't know. I hope we can win the seat, but I'm not counting on it.

[terrell9584]

61. That's the point, he's an economic Democrat

You don't win in Mississippi by running social liberals. This state, like most of the South, leans to the left on economics, to the right on social issues, and this is reflected in the Mississippi legislature, and in Childers himself.

All Musgrove has to do is paint this as him running against Pontotoc. Thad Cochran is our elder statesman. People actually refuse to run against him out of respect. He's still from Pontotoc, and so is Wicker. Musgrove will do very well in every part of the state that is not Pontotoc because there is a feeling in MS that this particular part of the state maintains an unfair hammerlock on everything in it. There are actually good reasons to believe that too.

It's a war of geography, and given that there is not a single thing that Musgrove is liberal on, there is nothing, nothing at all, with which Wicker can attack him on. His appointment, geographically, just makes no sense, no sense at all, because there is always one senator who plays to either the coast or the delta (or a combination of the two) and one to that area around Tupelo.

There is simply no way Musgrove can lose it.....not with gas as high as it is when combined with who he is

[graycem]

13. Yay!!!

:woohoo: :toast: :party: And they said the Democratic party had problems... :rofl:

[Condem]

14. Thanks for the news, Seen!

[Occam Bandage]

15. Hey, Republicans! November's gonna be a blowout!

[KingFlorez]

16. A sign of very good things to come

This is an enormous. Second Democratic pickup of a GOP southern congressional seat in as many weeks.

[rusty quoin]

17. Huckabee says that McCain can't run the Republican brand.

What's he got left?

[Spazito]

18. AWESOME!!!

That's THREE, count em, THREE in a row long held repub seats they have lost!

Congrats to District 1 Mississippi!

[Zachstar]

19. Hell yes!!! The real race of today comes to victory!!

Another big blow to the republican plans!

[bobbert]

20. That's because Repubs tied him to Obama

Let's see, if I'm a congressman in a swing district, who do I want to be associated with?

[writes3000]

Did they? I love it!!!! n/t

[bobbert]

Yes apparently he hasn't claimed any ties to him, but the Repubs aired commercials

linking the 2 of them

[writes3000]

36. How sickening. I love that it's backfiring! Love it! n/t

[Tatiana]

27. And the irony is that he doesn't really even KNOW Obama! n/t

[BlooInBloo]

47. I'll be curious to see if they try to tie the next one to Clinton instead...

Since tying them to Obama hasn't worked for them 3/3 times now.

[Tatiana]

50. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[wileedog]

21. I hope everyone realizes this was a much more important election tonight than WV

Yes?

[IDemo]

22. Huckabee just now: "That is not a good sign."

:rofl:

[DerekJ]

33. Where?!

[IDemo]

43. Where not a good sign, or where did he say it?

Not a good sign for the Republicans this November, MSNBC.

[burythehatchet]

23. apparently ChezNi campaigned all day for the pube

:rofl:

[malik flavors]

24. How could they already call it? Got a link?

[Spazito]

39. Here's a link to the Clarion-Ledger count, they have ticked his name

as the winner:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2008/by_county/MS_Page_0513.html?SITE=MSJADELN&SECTION=POLITICS

[BlooInBloo]

25. Isn't that like the 3rd republican stronghold seat we've won in like the last week or 2?

[Happyhippychick]

30. Yes, yes it is!

:)

[roseBudd]

46. And the 2nd where they tried a macaca move to defeat the dem & failed

It's like Bizarro World! The GOPs racist shit is backfiring!

[mohc]

26. Finally

The delegates needed number moves back to a nice round 2025, that .5 had been bothering me.

[uponit7771]

28. K & FREAKIN R!!!!!

[AllentownJake]

29. This is a Unity Thread

EOM

[uponit7771]

62. YEAPERS

[That Is Quite Enough]

31. Good times, good times.

Good times.


Great times.


*Excellent* times...

[cali]

32. 3 for 3 in special elections for congressional seats this year!

Now that's exciting and it bodes extremely well for dems in November.

[milkyway]

34. President Obama will have a heavily Democratic Congress to work with.

[Doctor_J]

37. This is HUGH!

+10?!?

Even if McSame lucks (wink-wink) into the WH, he can be kept under thumb.

[billyoc]

38. 3 for 3 in special elections this year.

I look forward to a fucking bloodbath in November. :woohoo:

[Neshanic]

40. Huckabee looked ill when asked about it on Tweet's show.

[Seen the light]

44. He campaigned for Davis heavily in that district

So did Cheney.

[Overseas]

41. Too Exciting !! Congratulations !! //k&r

[Lefty-Taylor]

42. Hallefreakinlujah!

:bounce:

[Tatiana]

45. Let's hope Republicans don't wise up and keep running ads linking Dem candidates to Obama.

Seems to be a winner for us!

[carpe diem]

58. i really think all they're doing is

energizing the Black vote...

[thewiseguy]

48. Go democrats!

:applause:

[quantass]

49. INCREDIBLE!

[Raine]

51. HURRRAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!

:bounce:

[last_texas_dem]

52. Awesome!

Three Repug districts have gone "D" in recent special elections; the Repugs can't be looking forward to November very much right now!

Also, the Repugs' attempts to bring down the Democrats in these conservative districts (MS and LA) by trying them to the national party failed, which is more good news.

[DerekJ]

53. kick

[thewiseguy]

55. Freepers are going insane about this one...

:rofl:

[fishwax]

59. wow, that's huge!

:woohoo:

[Barack_America]

63. From the *other* site:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015603/posts

My favorite thus far...


"By picking a state house delegate, and then we promptly lost the house delegate seat to the democrats.

We’ll probably lose a republican seat in Virginia in november as well.

Nobody wants to be a republican anymore.

I’ve never seen a party self-destruct so quickly."

:rofl:

[eleny]

64. "Nobody wants to be a republican anymore"

A moment of clarity - over there!

[Spazito]

65. SOLID win too! 54% to 46%, with one precinct left to report! n/t

[uponit7771]

66. people, this is HUGE!!!! This is like Pelosi losing her seat or something...This is HUGE!!

[FrenchieCat]

67. Yes it is! HUGE!

:woohoo:

[opihimoimoi]

68. The Pubs have set themselves up for the Fall....what with backing 2x the greatest fuckup in our

History...George w Bush...the PPl are not Happy with Pubs and their screwy ideas and BS

[Ioo]

69. Sweet!!!!

[Thrill]

70. Read this article. Wonder how these idiots feel now?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/us/politics/13mississippi.html?_r=2&ref=politics&oref=slogin&loc=interstitialskip&oref=slogin

8 point win. Playing the race card. Goes down the drain again.

[Barack_America]

71. New graphic from FreeRepublic.

They are shitting themselves over there. It's only the third time or so I've trolled that site, but damn am I enjoying myself!

[David Zephyr]

72. Mississippi Goes Blue! The GOP is doomed.

Smell the sulphur! Yes!

[mystieus]

73. A GOP House leadership aide told Politico last week that

“if we don’t win in Mississippi, I think you are going to see a lot of people running around here looking for windows to jump out of.”

lol