Mississippi 2003

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Urrgh... nasty.

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As a Mississippian, let me put in a few cents:

Barbour (R) played the race card the whole election.  He accused Musgrove (D) of trying to change the state flag, which is absolutely not true as Musgrove put it to a vote.
Musgrove responded stupidly by not running his decent record.  He simply attacked Barbour the whole race.
Barbour and Musgrove both ran very bad campaigns, but Musgrove's was worse.
I'm glad it's all over really so I don't have to see attack adds on every channel.  They got pretty bad. . .  ("Washington lobbyist Haley Barbour is poisining our kids . . . ")

Barbour was endorsed by the "uptown Klan"(the CoCC) if I remember correctly...

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Is Mississippi really that straight down the line?

Only when the race card is played.
Current polls show Bush neck and neck with a generic Democrat in MS.

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Poll was by AP:

Bush 49% certainly Democrat nominee 29% consider Democrat nominee 20%
Total Democrat 49%

www.dcpoliticalreport.com

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consider is not voting.

I would answer considering too and I am behind Bush all the way.  

You always look at everyone and then decide.  

Next, Bush won't be running against a generic Democrat but a named one and Bush leads by 10 points or more almost everywhere when you add a name and sometimes 20 points depending.

Wrong

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You need to learn how to read polls.
At the moment the election is a referendum on the president, so the number to look for is what % Bush is getting. Ignore "leads" etc.
If he is in the low 50's he's in trouble, under 50 he could be in serious trouble.

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I personally find the GOP whipping up racial tensions to win close races in the Deep South(ala Barbour 2003) even more disgusting.
Divide and Rule.

Urgh...

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Do you realize how racist your posts on this thread look(I'm not calling you a racist but the stuff you wrote looks bad)
I accept that this will cause an enraged responce, but the tone of what you wrote seems to me to be quite unsettling.
No offense ment.

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The way you talk about "blacks" voting stupidly, I guess. It's a little careless, perhaps, I myself did not react much but I can see how one definitely could. Maybe you should just think about it.

Exactly.

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I know that a lot of Black people vote Democrat by reflex, and that a lot of White people vote Republican because of that.
Both of these things really irritate me.
I realize that Memphis is very bad for racial voting, but look on the bright side, it's better than Birmingham, AL...

Over here it's true that most old mining communities would vote for a donkey if it promised to kick in the right direction, but the only party that actually fights for the old mining communities is Labour(although the Liberal M.P for Ludlow does as well)

However certain Tories have been exploiting racial tensions worse than Barbour did in MS.
Look at Bradford West or Bethnal Green and Bow.