Mississippi: A Blue State?
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.
May 14th, 2008 at 6:37 am
There must be a Fat Lady in the GOP who can lead the singing on the evening of the first Tuesday in November.