MS Megathread: Hyde-Smith wins by 8

[Stranger in a strange land]

Barbour is pretty much the personification of the Swamp, and Double Down hinted that he had “peccadilloes” in his past, which is usually a beltway political journalist euphemism for extramarital affairs, so I doubt he could make it through a primary these days: he’d probably lose to McDaniel or another bomb-thrower.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Mississippi is 40% African-American (the highest % in the country if I'm not mistaken).  If African American voter-participation rate goes up, it would turn into a blue state.  But it probably won't happen in 2018.  It doesn't hurt to try of course.

Even if Blacks turn out according to their share in the population (40%) and Espy wins all of them, he would still need some 15-20% of Whites to win ... which is hard in MS.

This is actually the bigger problem: if whites in Mississippi even voted like whites in Oklahoma, it would be a Blue State.