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Dear everyone - McDaniel is almost certainly going to win. These Mississippians are that goddamned stupid and myopic.
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Mississippi is tea party country much like Texas. I would bet that the tea partier is leading right now. I don’t care who wins this primary they are both republicans and both will be a terrible representative for Mississippi the poorest state in the union. If Mississippians wonder why they have the poorest schools, the lowest wages, the worse healthcare look no further than your republican representatives including federal and state. I quit feeling sorry for those in Mississippi because you get what you reap, and boy they are reaping crap. This is someone saying this that was born and raised in Mississippi and thankfully no longer live there. Not to say that Florida is doing a heck of a lot better in some ways where I live now. I have relatives in Mississippi who have loved ones on Medicare and yet say that we should do away with Medicare. How insane is that?? That is the kind of mentality that you find in Mississippi.
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I’m not sure whether to be upset or happy over this. MS is not going to go Democratic this cycle even if we ran Jesus.
But if the Rethugs win the Senate, Cochran might be slightly better to have in office than McDaniel - in the same way that the flu is better than pneumonia.
I disagree…let McDaniel win and represent, in all his Tea Party glory, the state of Mississippi.
Let Teh Crazy® run rampant, for all the world to see. The more nutbags we have up there spouting Teh Crazy®, the easier it will be to point out the lunacy. We’ll never get the 30 percent of the nation that is lock, stock and barrel committed to the GOP brand of insanity, but the higher their freak flags fly, the more visible they are to anyone with a brain.
I say bring it on, and let them feel the pain in 2016.
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It’s the mean-spiritedness. They don’t want someone they can have a beer with; they want someone who they can kick and piss on their perceived enemies with.
The nursing home scandal is just what he needed to convince MS voters that he’s just like them.
Especially if we ran Jesus. Like that dirty liberal pacifist knows what’s good for Mississippi.
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Stupid & myopic … and a bit twisted … get the feeling that McDaniel would be pulling way ahead if only the photos of Cochran’s wife had been more gruesome and had stayed posted up on the Internet… think about it - this is a contest to win the hearts of the one of the most fiercely right wing branches of the GOP - the meaner & nastier you are - the more intrigued they are with you.
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Exactly.
“…67 percent said the story had no impact…”
The “values voter” contingent of the Republican Party.
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Cochran 57%
McScandals 42%
Mississippians love their bulldogs and scoundrels. McDaniel is just a good “ole” junk yard dog.
Ditto…
It’s a fool’s errand to watch polls too closely. Trying to peg minor shifts in polling data based on the day-to-day news cycle, is not particularly useful.
And that McDaniel dude is totally a racist. At some point, the GOP is going to have to jettison the racists in their party. At this point, they’re not yet ready to do so, and therefore will continue to be dragged down by them.
At this point, the GOP is uncompetitive on the national stage.
Oh well.
This is great how the Tea Party is forcing moderate Republicans to side with Democrats. Whether they like it or not, Got to love it
So, with “a tiny 1.4 percent” poll and a margin of error of 3.4 percent, Republican Thomas Carey could actually wind up with negative votes!
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What moderate Republicans? They’re as numerous as unicorns.
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Not if the majority of Republicans are racist. Which they are.
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I think you’re right. There are times in history this tactic has hugely backfired, but in 2010 and 2012 you could point to individual races where Republicans nominated loony extremists who lost the general. (“I’m not a witch.”) People who follow politics know the Republicans have become radical nihilists, but the general, disengaged mass of voters still say “They’re all bums” and so forth. Until they really see how nuts the Republicans are, we’ll still have this gridlocked mess to live with.
I have a tendency to agree with you as well, although I seldom think “nominating the extremist” is a good position, because in the end you want the best representative possible, no matter their party.
But…nothing is getting done in the Senate now and won’t unless the Dems get 60+ votes. That’s just an objective reading of the reality. So what changes if the Republicans take the Sentate, or if they elect Tea Party nuts like this? Nothing changes. So, let them have it, let them spend the next two years investigating and stonewalling and throwing out the crazy in buckets. I can’t imagine any better situation for a Democrat in 2016, and I would bet that Hillary and Barack are both crossing their fingers for a Senate loss this fall.