In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a Democrat on Tuesday. Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Travis Childers beat out Republican candidate Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven, by a 54%-46% margin, ...
GOP's Miss. loss bigger than W. Va.
msnbc.msn.comFound 51 days, 16 hours, 48 minutes, and 30 seconds agoThis latest loss for the GOP makes the House 236 Democrats to 199 Republicans. Can cash and campaigning stop the bleeding come November?
Democratic Victory May Be a Bellwether
washingtonpost.comFound 52 days, 1 hour, 2 minutes, and 21 seconds agoA Democrat won the race for a GOP-held congressional seat in northern Mississippi yesterday, leaving the once-dominant House Republicans reeling from their third special-election defeat of the spring.
Dem beats Republican in a race that may predict November
edition.cnn.comFound 51 days, 22 hours, 17 minutes, and 26 seconds agoBased on early returns, CNN projects that Democrat Travis Childers defeated Republican Greg Davis in a Tuesday special election for an open congressional seat in northern Mississippi.
Mississippi Democrat Travis W. Childers gains a seat in the House
latimes.comFound 51 days, 18 hours, 59 minutes, and 29 seconds agoThe post, which had been in Republican hands for 14 years, is that party's third big loss in the chamber this year. The win also gives the Democrats a 236-199 majority in the House -- if only for a few months, until November's general elections. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent $1.
DCCC links Davis to KKK founder's statue
thehill.comFound 51 days, 14 hours, 22 minutes, and 10 seconds agoNational Democrats distributed a racially charged flier on the eve of Mississippi's special House election, tying the Republican candidate in the race to the Ku Klux Klan in a last-minute effort to win the crucial contest Tuesday. Republicans immediately decried the Democratic Congressional Campaign ...
We Are Totally Frakked
corner.nationalreview.comFound 51 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes, and 57 seconds agoIf the GOP can't hold on to a House seat in the Deep South that Bush won by 25 points, it's going to be 1974 all over again. I'm just hoping that Rahm Emanuel has recruited enough pro-sovereignty, Heath Shuler-style Dems so that we can head off amnesty. ...
GOP scrambles after Mississippi loss
politico.comFound 51 days, 12 hours, 56 minutes, and 36 seconds agoTom Davis says Bush "brand" could lead to November bloodbath. But sources who attended the "awkward" leadership meeting said that not one word was said about the GOP's electoral woes or the steps party leaders might take to address them. Hillary also takes ALL her MI votes and gives NONE to Obama - fair ...
Mississippi Win Gives House Dems Three Victories In A Row
huffingtonpost.comFound 51 days, 15 hours, 2 minutes, and 20 seconds agoJACKSON, Miss. - It's becoming a disturbing trend for Republicans: losing traditional GOP strongholds to Democrats in some hard-fought congressional races. It happened again Tuesday, as Travis Childers beat Greg Davis in a special election to replace Republican Roger Wicker, who served in the House ...
Democrat Wins Mississippi Special Election
blog.washingtonpost.comFound 52 days, 3 hours, 35 minutes, and 38 seconds agoChris Cillizza joins washingtonpost.com as the author of a new politics blog called The Fix. Cillizza will provide daily posts on a range of political topics, from the race for control of Congress in 2006 to scrutinizing the 2008 presidential contenders.
Democrats take another Republican seat
weblogs.baltimoresun.comFound 51 days, 22 hours, 29 minutes, and 26 seconds agoFollowing special election victories in Illinois and Louisiana, it's the third time in less than three months that the Democrats have taken a seat from the Republicans. Chris Van Hollen, the Marylander who chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Travis's victory proves that a Democrat ...
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
dccc.orgFound 51 days, 22 hours, 40 minutes, and 7 seconds agoWith tonight's win, the Democratic majority in Congress has expanded to 236-199. "Congratulations to Travis Childers on his stunning victory. It is yet another rejection of the House Republican agenda, the Bush Administration's misguided policies, and John McCain's campaign for a third Bush term.
"The sky is falling on House Republicans and there is no sign of it letting up."
americablog.comFound 51 days, 20 hours, 28 minutes, and 8 seconds agoOh, the House Republicans are so screwed. The Hill has yet another look at GOP prospects -- and the potential for GOP leadership changes. It's delicious: The sky is falling on House Republicans and there is no sign of it letting up. ...
Miss. Democrat wins House seat in special election - The Associated Press
ap.google.comFound 51 days, 20 hours, 59 minutes, and 19 seconds agoCBS News Miss. Democrat wins House seat in special election The Associated Press - 1 hour ago JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - It's becoming a disturbing trend for Republicans: losing traditional GOP strongholds to Democrats in some hard-fought congressional races. ...
Democrat takes back 1st District seat in Congress
commercialappeal.comFound 51 days, 21 hours, 10 minutes, and 25 seconds agoDemocrat Travis Childers overcame Republican Greg Davis' commanding lead in his home county of DeSoto Tuesday night to capture Mississippi's 1st District House seat. Republican Greg Davis dominated in DeSoto County but lost the special election for the 1st District congressional seat. "We are still excited ...
McCain seen as cure for House Republicans
feeds.feedburner.comFound 51 days, 17 hours, 4 minutes, and 22 seconds agoJohn McCain, as their hope for staving off disaster in November. "Candidates who hope to succeed must show that they're willing and able to join McCain in a leading movement for reform," House Minority Leader John Boehner, Ohio Republican, said in the wake of Democrat Travis Childer's victory in Mississippi's ...
Democrat wins in Mississippi Republican stronghold
guardian.co.ukFound 51 days, 5 hours, 28 minutes, and 26 seconds agoA Democratic congressional victory last night in what had been a Republican stronghold showed the failure of long-successful Republican efforts to nationalise the race by linking both candidates to high-profile political figures, political observers say. The result in Mississippi's first district also ...
horsesass.org
Note to Republicans: be afraid. Be very afraid.
When Democrats won a special election in March for former Speaker Dennis Hastert's seat, an R+6 district the GOP had held for three decades, it was cause for a celebratory fuck you to Republicans who only four years ago taunted D's with talk of a ...
Found 51 days, 17 hours, 30 minutes, and 4 seconds ago
swingstateproject.com
Only seven Democrats sit in comparably red seats - and not a single Republican sits in a seat as blue as this one is red. And almost every major prognosticator (at least at the start) treated this as a safe seat. The "every man for himself" mentality that has taken hold amongst the GOP will become even ...
Found 51 days, 16 hours, 37 minutes, and 26 seconds ago
dailykos.com
And yet what happened? Despite all this, Travis Childers just became the newest member of the Democratic Caucus with a resounding 54-46 win. It's utterly unspinnable. Even Tom Cole knew not to try .
But a sober press release only sees him through a single night. At dawn the next day, he has to face the same vast universe of problems that existed even before Childers won, except they will loom much larger and much more sharply. Almost every potentially contestable Republican seat is in play now.
Found 51 days, 18 hours, 26 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
washingtonmonthly.com
REPUBLICAN LOSING STREAK CONTINUES.... Mississippi's 1st congressional district may be a longtime Republican stronghold, but as usual this year, that didn't matter: Travis Childers, a conservative Democrat who serves as Prentiss County chancery clerk, defeated Southaven Mayor Greg Davis by 54 percent to 46 percent in the race to represent Mississippi's 1st Congressional District, which both parties considered a potential bellwether for the fall elections.
....House Democrats now hold a 236 to 199 majority, up from 203 seats they controlled two years ago.
Found 52 days, 1 hour, 2 minutes, and 20 seconds ago
digbysblog.blogspot.com
.... even in Mississippi:
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edcone.typepad.com
"There is no district that is safe for Republican candidates," says DCCC chair Chris Van Hollen. Hyperbole, to be sure, but you can see why he's excited .
Found 51 days, 21 hours, 25 minutes, and 19 seconds ago
scrappleface.com
(2008-05-14) -- An ebullient Sen. John McCain told a crowd of supporters today that the Republican loss of a Mississippi Congressional seat Tuesday bodes well for his presidential hopes in November.
"Travis Childers, who beat the Republican in Mississippi, ran as a conservative Democrat and will now join the liberal Democrat coalition in the House," said the presumptive Republican nominee. "What does that signal if not the triumph of the McCain strategy?"
Found 51 days, 19 hours, 10 minutes, and 35 seconds ago
dailypundit.com
RealClearPolitics - Articles - GOP Stunned By Loss in Mississippi
Really? Stunned? Why?
You RINO morons have been brewing this onrushing disaster since 2004. You've nominated a liberal who is trying to destroy the GOP's conservative base, and you wonder why you can't raise money, volunteers, or win elections. If you really are stunned, maybe you are too stupid to survive.
Well, that's okay, too. If you go under (and lord knows, you deserve to) we'll build a smart party on the rubble. Probably be easier that way anyway.
Found 51 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes, and 31 seconds ago
boomantribune.com
It was an earthmoving election night .
"No one could have imagined the tsunami that just crashed on Republicans in Mississippi," Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said in an interview after the victory. "There is no district that is safe for Republican candidates.
Found 51 days, 18 hours, 30 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
thecarpetbaggerreport.com
House Republicans meet every Wednesday morning to talk about strategy and direction, and most of the time, the meetings seem to improve GOP morale. Two weeks ago, Roll Call noted that Minority Leader John Boehner received a standing ovation when he explained to the caucus that they had nothing to worry about.
At a minimum, he said at the time, Republicans know precisely how to keep open "red" districts in GOP hands -- nationalize the races, tie the Dems to Obama and Pelosi. Winning over "blue" districts is trickier, the Republican leadership said, but holding onto existing seats isn't nearly as difficult.
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firedoglake.com
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seeingtheforest.com
-- by John Emerson
In a Mississippi special election the Democratic Congressional candidate won by 8% in a district which had gone for Bush by 20%+. Granted that white Southern Democratic Congressmen are usually more conservative than Democratic Presidential candidates (and Northern Democratic Congressmen), that's a tremendous swing.
What strikes me here is that the voters, including the fabled "heartland voters", are rejecting the Republicans even though the media still is not. To my knowledge, on national commercial TV and radio only Keith Olberman is reliably anti-Republican.
Found 51 days, 20 hours, 59 minutes, and 12 seconds ago
ronmwangaguhunga.blogspot.com
Out: The Republican Brand. First: Cazayoux ; Now Travis Childers , a Conservative Democrat, beat a Republican in Northern Mississippi! This is beginning to have "special House races" shades of 1974 , when Democrat Richard Vander Veen won Gerald Ford's House seat in a special 1974 election.
Found 51 days, 18 hours, 1 minute, and 56 seconds ago
cdrsalamander.blogspot.com
UPDATE: Via Allah , I think we have a nice view of the NRCC after the MS-01 loss.
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politics.nashvillepost.com
Last night , the Democratic Party captured its third straight victory this year in a special election for U.S. Congress. Democrat Travis Childers came away last night triumphant in a historically conservative district which routinely elects Republican Presidents and has been held by the GOP since 1994. Terry Frank argues that the loss can be chalked up to bad brand management:
Republicans who have been losing their national brand name as the party of smaller government and low taxes, have relied on the very group they are often embarrassed of to propel them across finish lines:
Found 51 days, 21 hours, 10 minutes, and 4 seconds ago
freerepublic.com
RealClear Politics ^ | 5/14/2008 | Reid Wilson
Found 51 days, 20 hours, 58 minutes, and 6 seconds ago
strata-sphere.com
The fall out from the purity wars launched by the far right in the GOP continues to rack up successes - for the Democrats .
In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a Democrat on Tuesday. Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Travis Childers beat out Republican candidate Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven, by a 54%-46% margin, a spread that several Republican strategists on Capitol Hill characterized as a startling wake-up call for a party in dire straits.
Found 51 days, 20 hours, 58 minutes, and 3 seconds ago
radaronline.com
Following recent losses in previously impenetrable districts in Illinois and Louisiana, Republicans gave up another congressional seat last night, this time in Mississippi. Travis Childers won a runoff to serve out the term of Roger Wicker , who was appointed to the Senate when Trent Lott resigned. It's a devastating loss for the Republicans- George Bush carried the district with 62% of the vote in 2004, and Childers' opponent pretty much ran on the slogan "Travis Childers will bring Jeremiah Wright down here to say bad things about white people.
Found 51 days, 20 hours, 39 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
rightrainbow.com
The party has now lost three consecutive special elections, all of them in (formerly) Republican districts.
My friends, we're going down like a $5 whore on Royal St. I predict a loss of 40 seats in the House and six in the Senate.
Found 52 days, 3 hours, 35 minutes, and 38 seconds ago
delawarewatch.blogspot.com
Mississippi Democrat Travis Childers won a special election to Congress on Tuesday, helping his party to a third victory in recent months for seats long in Republican hands. The victory puts Childers into the seat vacated by Roger Wicker, a Republican appointed to the U.S. Senate when Trent Lott resigned. The win also pushes the Democrats to a 236-199 majority in Congress _ if only for a few months until November's general elections. With all precincts reporting, Childers had 54 percent to Republican Greg Davis' 46 percent.
Found 51 days, 14 hours, 58 minutes, and 45 seconds ago
voxday.blogspot.com
I've been predicting a serious Democratic landslide for some years now, it looks like the massacre might even exceed my expectations :
Found 51 days, 12 hours, 9 minutes, and 9 seconds ago
residualforces.com
Things are looking very ugly for Republicans this election. It appears that Congressional campaign leadership is losing the faith of its members . We have a Presidential candidate that is purposefully disenfranchising segments of the conservative base. And on the Senate end of things, it seems that even with a slim single digit minority, Republicans are unable or unwilling to fight toe to toe with liberal Democrats and instead proud to be working with them.
Found 51 days, 16 hours, 47 minutes, and 45 seconds ago
bearingdrift.com
By Chris | May 14, 2008
Filed Under Campaigns and Elections , Congress | 6 Comments This is bad.
Republicans have now lost three special elections for previously GOP-held Congressional seats this year. Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend my friends. Read more
Found 52 days, 3 hours, 34 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
rrwr.blogspot.com
For the third time a Republican has gone down in flames in a special House election. We're 0-3. These are generally indicative of how the party will perform in the normal elections. What's worse, the latest loss was in a district that Bush carried by a whopping 25% in 2004. Yet they couldn't win even there.
Found 52 days, 3 hours, 34 minutes, and 28 seconds ago
redfellow.blogspot.com
In 2004 George W. Bush took Mississippi's First congressional district by a full 25% and a handsome plurality : The district, which voted 62%-37% for President Bush in 2004, was vacated when incumbent Republican Roger Wicker was appointed to the U.S. Senate. Then a curious thing happened three weeks ago, when Democratic nominee Travis Childers led Republican Greg Davis 49%-46% in the first round of voting, but just short of the 50% needed to avoid a runoff. Both parties have given this race a lot of attention.
Found 52 days, 1 hour, 2 minutes, and 17 seconds ago
rjwaldmann.blogspot.com
The result of the stunning victory of Travis Childers (D-Miss now) in Mississippi's 1st congressional district (which Bush won by 25% in 2004)
Found 52 days, 1 hour, 2 minutes, and 19 seconds ago
betsyspage.blogspot.com
And the loss of the Republican congressional seat in Mississippi does not augur well for the Republican prospects in congressional elections this Fall.
Found 51 days, 22 hours, 34 minutes, and 44 seconds ago
raisingkaine.com
If you're a Democrat, you've gotta love stories like this one :
A Democrat won the race for a GOP-held congressional seat in northern Mississippi yesterday, leaving the once-dominant House Republicans reeling from their third special-election defeat of the spring.
Travis Childers, a conservative Democrat who serves as Prentiss County chancery clerk, defeated Southaven Mayor Greg Davis by 54 percent to 46 percent in the race to represent Mississippi's 1st Congressional District, which both parties considered a potential bellwether for the fall elections.
Found 51 days, 22 hours, 34 minutes, and 44 seconds ago
bornatthecrestoftheempire.blogspot.com
After the loss in the Mississippi special election last night, NRCC chair Tom Cole issues a memo which can only be taken as a directive for his GOP charges to panic .
Found 51 days, 21 hours, 10 minutes, and 51 seconds ago
holycoast.blogspot.com
This item at Politico spells out how dangerous the political atmosphere is for Republicans this fall: Following the victory by Democrat Travis Childers in tonight's special election, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (Okla.) issued what can only be called a declaration of surrender. Here is Cole's statement, which I found simply amazing:
Found 51 days, 21 hours, 10 minutes, and 55 seconds ago
midsouthblack.wordpress.com
Travis Childers Defeats Divisive Republican Campaign in Mississippi! Travis Childers wins Mississippi 1st District House Seat in Congress. Mr. Childers defeated Greg Davis, who is the Mayor of Southaven, Mississippi who ran a shameless campaign based on negativity. Mayor Davis' campaign ads consisted of clips attacking Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Senator Barack Obama, instead of ads targeting the bread and butter issues that turbulent economic times should command!
This one may be bad news for the Republicans this year.
Found 51 days, 21 hours, 9 minutes, and 53 seconds ago
towleroad.com
A bellwether for November?
A stunning win for Democrat Travis Childers in the 1st congressional district in Mississippi , where Cheney and Huckabee campaigned for Republican Greg Davis.
AP: "It happened again Tuesday, as Travis Childers beat Greg Davis in a special election to replace Republican Roger Wicker, who served in the House since 1994 and was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the seat vacated by Trent Lott. Childers' win will give him the chance over the next several months left in the seat's two-year term to build a fundraising and publicity advantage as he heads into November's general election.
Found 51 days, 20 hours, 59 minutes, and 10 seconds ago
blog.beliefnet.com
Ruh-roh! The Republicans just lost a third House seat in a special election -- this one in Mississippi. When they lost Denny Hastert's seat in Illinois and Richard Baker's seat in Louisiana, they blamed weak candidates. Whose fault is this one, geniuses? The GOP threw all the Jeremiah Wright stuff it could at Childers, a conservative Democrat, and still lost in a heavily conservative district. It wasn't even close. Excerpt:
[L]osing heavily Republican seats in the Deep South is a big blow to the Washington GOP.
Found 51 days, 20 hours, 58 minutes, and 2 seconds ago
downwithtyranny.blogspot.com
This big story in the morning's Hill couldn't be more ominous , literally: "The sky is falling on House Republicans and there is no sign of it letting up." That was the first paragraph. The second, talking about a party "in shambles," offers that the light some Republicans claim they see at the end of the tunnel is actually "the Democratic train that is primed to mow down more Republicans in November."
Found 51 days, 19 hours, 57 minutes, and 7 seconds ago
bidinotto.journalspace.com
big-government-Republican McCain administration than we did, say, under Reagan during his battles with Tip O'Neill's Democrat congress. For one thing, we now face a whole new avalanche of environmental laws and regs for the next four years no matter who is elected, McCain or Obama.
Found 51 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes, and 22 seconds ago
hillbillywhitetrash.blogspot.com
From Real Clear Politics :
Found 51 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes, and 24 seconds ago
brownpelicanla.com
A Startling Wake-Up Call For a Party in Dire Straits
Found 51 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes, and 3 seconds ago
bluehampshire.com
Yeah, couldn't be farther from the Granite State.
But this is now the third special election in the House in a red district that Democrats have won. And that the NRCC has spent lots of money they don't have defending.
This literally makes my week. The nation stands ready to hold Bush's Republican Party accountable for the last eight years. Next November will be a sea change, if these three races are indicative of anything.
(And remember, a President Obama is much less effective without a filibuster-proof Senate, so we've got to reach that number, too.
Found 51 days, 18 hours, 59 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
joshingpolitics.blogspot.com
From The LA Times :
Found 51 days, 18 hours, 59 minutes, and 25 seconds ago
swingstateproject.net
And yet what happened? Despite all this, Travis Childers just became the newest member of the Democratic Caucus with a resounding 54-46 win. It's utterly unspinnable. Even Tom Cole knew not to try .
But a sober press release only sees him through until tomorrow morning. Then he has to face the same vast universe of problems he had before him today, except they will loom much larger and much more sharply. Almost every potentially contestable Republican seat is in play now. The "every man for himself" mentality that has taken hold amongst the GOP will become even more firmly entrenched, dooming already-weak NRCC fundraising.
Found 51 days, 18 hours, 59 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
dailykos.com.
And yet what happened? Despite all this, Travis Childers just became the newest member of the Democratic Caucus with a resounding 54-46 win. It's utterly unspinnable. Even Tom Cole knew not to try .
But a sober press release only sees him through a single night. At dawn the next day, he has to face the same vast universe of problems that existed even before Childers won, except they will loom much larger and much more sharply. Almost every potentially contestable Republican seat is in play now.
Found 51 days, 18 hours, 26 minutes, and 19 seconds ago
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
14 May 2008 12:16 pm
Krikorian despairs after Mississippi. Quinnipiac shows both Obama and Clinton beating McCain easily. Obama-scares in the Deep South went nowhere, as Larison explains: The public mood is so bad and so hostile to the national GOP that
drawing direct connections between their candidate and the national
party, as they did constantly, seems to have done more to doom Davis'
chances than help them. The ham-fisted attempt to link Childers to
Obama ("Childers said nothing!") gave off the scent of desperation, and
rural Mississippians in the district who were already inclined to vote
for one of their own against a ridiculous-looking suburban mayor
weren't buying it.
Found 51 days, 18 hours, 6 minutes, and 47 seconds ago
economist.com
DEMOCRATS are crowing about their win in the race for a Republican-held congressional seat in Mississippi last night. The party's candidates have won all three special elections this spring, no small feat considering the typically Republican districts the victories came in. In Mississippi, Travis Childers (pictured), a courthouse official, won in a district that gave George Bush 62% of the vote in 2004. But should traditional Democrats be concerned? The party has been winning lately by co-opting Republican values.
Found 51 days, 17 hours, 25 minutes, and 31 seconds ago
brothersjuddblog.com
McCain seen as cure for House Republicans (Stephen Dinan, May 14, 2008, Washington Times)
Found 51 days, 17 hours, 4 minutes, and 21 seconds ago
opovet.blogspot.com
Lost in all the media coverage of Hillary Clinton's huge win in West Virginia was this story : In one of the most conservative districts in Mississippi, Travis Childers,
Found 51 days, 16 hours, 48 minutes, and 20 seconds ago
supremeirony.blogspot.com
Over at The Corner they seem to think so :
Found 51 days, 16 hours, 25 minutes, and 52 seconds ago
demfromct.dailykos.com
election; Update: Panic time, say Boehner, Cole
Red State : Clean House at the NRCC
RCP : GOP Stunned By Loss in Mississippi
NRO :We Are Totally Frakked [Mark Krikorian]
Add this to the mix:
Politico : Cole issues surrender declaration following Mississippi loss
This whole statement is an admission by Cole that he does not now how House Republicans can win in November as a group, so each member better protect himself or herself. To his credit, Cole has been warning his members that they need to run as outsiders this fall, but beyond that general admonition, the Oklahoma Republican can't show them a path to victory.
Found 51 days, 16 hours, 14 minutes, and 43 seconds ago
sweetness-light.com
From The Hill :
Found 51 days, 14 hours, 22 minutes, and 6 seconds ago
thepiratescove.us
Right Of Mississippi catches the DCCC playing the race card, and the folks who keep telling us the Left is smarter then everyone else get it wrong
Southaven Mayor Greg Davis said Thursday he would be willing to display the Jefferson Davis statue , which is in Downtown Memphis, near City Hall at the end of Northwest Drive.
Horn Lake Mayor Nat Baker also said he would take the statues of Davis and of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest "in a heartbeat, even if we'd have to find some privately owned land to put them on.
Found 51 days, 14 hours, 21 minutes, and 47 seconds ago
nydailynews.com
, which could provide Obama with a boost among white, working-class voters.
The blogosphere spent much of the afternoon on high alert for the Edwards announcement.
Sean Penn thinks Obama's voting record is "phenomenally inhuman and unconstitutional."
Obama was in Michigan , trying to woo the kinds of blue-collar voters that have so far largely preferred Hillary Clinton (many of whom also used to really like Edwards).
Found 51 days, 12 hours, 56 minutes, and 33 seconds ago
raggedthots.blogspot.com
UPDATE: Recriminations aplenty among House Republicans.
Found 51 days, 12 hours, 56 minutes, and 33 seconds ago
mcblogger.com
The Republicans are trying to fix the NRCC . The good news, at least for us, is that it appears to be working . If you mean 'fix' in the sense of neutering a pet. This should bode well for Skelly, Doherty and even Lampson (can you tell I'm working on that whole 'being derisive toward our candidates' thing?).
Found 51 days, 5 hours, 28 minutes, and 23 seconds ago
rightfromtheright.blogspot.com
GOP Stunned By Loss in Mississippi
Found 51 days, 18 hours, 34 minutes, and 36 seconds ago
rightfromleft.blogspot.com
Illinois . Louisiana . And now Mississippi . Reading these tea leaves, it doesn't bode well for Republicans. Although it's always fascinated me how Democrats always seem to campaign as conservatives.
Found 51 days, 18 hours, 1 minute, and 49 seconds ago
tammybruce.com
GOP Stunned By Loss in Mississippi
In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a Democrat on Tuesday. Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Travis Childers beat out Republican candidate Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven, by a 54%-46% margin, a spread that several Republican strategists on Capitol Hill characterized as a startling wake-up call for a party in dire straits.
Found 51 days, 18 hours, 1 minute, and 41 seconds ago
anti-contrarian.blogspot.com
Found 51 days, 18 hours, 1 minute, and 15 seconds ago