It will also give the Democrat, Childers, a real “chance of a lifetime” to win, if Democratic GOTV is heavy and many Republicans don’t vote for Cochran.
the even more threadbare argument that Mississippi law bans primary voting by those who do not intend to support the party in November
I’ve seen wingnuts enthusiastically advancing that very argument in multiple comment threads already. It’s about all they’ve got.
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Because both over the bridge and under the dam would be catastrophic when discussing water.
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And the counter to that is that most people register as Republicans because the Republican primary is where the actual election takes place. And, of course, you cannot legislate against people changing parties at will, either.
If Republicans don’t want Democrats voting in “their” primaries, then what they need to do is to stop trying to gerrymander the Democrats out of existence, have more competitive districts so that you have meaningful primaries on both sides, and that will give Democrats more to gain from choosing between Democrats than from choosing between Republicans.
Well, we know that won’t happen. It defeats the purpose of winning.
Michael Tomasky has the best analysis and commentary on this one:
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I was about to make the same point, but I will add that I have to watch myself on that score, too, because I am prone to get it the wrong way around if I write without thinking about it.
Sad Thad … not sad now! McDaniel haz’ a sad, huh? ___Cue the howls of pain and anger from the Tea Potty’ faithful!
Mississippi: “We prefer the depraved old GOPig loon over the completely batsh*tcrazee’ Bagger”
Pass me the popcorn and a large cup of shadenfreude! Mmmmmm!
And I’m sure these are the same people who were enthusiastic supporters of Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” in 2008.
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And in that case, they have to accept the consequence that Democratic sympathizers are going to be voting in their primaries, if that’s the only way to have a voice in the election.
Hear, hear. You nailed it.
It could definitely happen in Alabama.
I would love to see Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III in a struggle for his political life.
The difference is, I wouldn’t mind him losing.
The old GOTV made the difference. That is the Democrats lesson from this.
If we don’t, and I know that none of us do, want the nuts running the country, then we all have to vote against them. It’s that simple.
OccamsRazor2: Because both over the bridge and under the dam would be catastrophic when discussing water.
Not to mention a spatial relationship between dam and bridge that would be best described as Escher-like.
Democrats were not winning this seat and McDaniel is worse than Cruz. It is a good thing that he lost.
Primary sabotage is the new voter fraud, starting now. Look for the drumbeat to intensify in 2015, with more restrictive primary registration rules in place for the 2016 cycle. I predict Republican voters will be the first ones burned by their own party’s burdensome restrictions, some time in 2016.
Thanks for the link. Partisans are the worst possible judges of who or what the majority of people will find crazy.
I lived in Mississippi from 1955 to 2007 and I agree with the author of this piece. Mississippi has it’s own way (far too scary in most cases) and at least last night, it might have accidentally saved the state from complete insanity. Democrats there have few white voters (I was one of those) and the GOP is just the old segregationist that was known as Dixiecrats which left the Democratic Party in 68 for racial reasons. They know Cochran will get Mississippi much needed government income (funny how they aren’t angry at the Governor who is refusing Medicaid Expansion that would bring in the needed money) and McDaniel will give the state more of what it has too much of now, gutter mouth talk and more poverty. Mississippi should wake up but it has been in this self inflicted wounds mentality too long to change now.
“McDaniel” not “McDaniels.” Sorry to say. As both a McDaniel and a southerner of the non-white-supremacist variety, I thank you Ed for giving that race-baiting cracker a derivative spelling. But Scots-Irish code requires a correction.