MS Special Election/Mike Espy (D) internal: Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) down by 2

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Lol. I'm confident Espy will get at least 39% of the vote.

Lots of junk polls today.

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Just another reminder that folks here were seriously arguing that Espy should drop out because he's black.

I mean he shouldn't, but let's not kid ourselves either, if Doug Jones was black, Roy Moore would have won.

I mean, that just blatantly forgets how Jones won in the first place. Jones only won 30% of the white vote, which is rather average for Democrats. What was the difference was the fact that Jones won the Black Vote by historic margins, as much as Obama did. And they turned out. If Jones were black, its possible that more Black Dems would have turned out, and he likely still would have won.

Obama lost by 21 points in 2008 despite black turnout because he only got 10% of the white vote. 30% is nowhere near the average for a Democrat in Alabama. If it was, it would be a swing state.