MS Megathread: Hyde-Smith wins by 8

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This is it. This is where we finally need to run Jim Hood.

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I'm in the dark. Do we know what these elusive health problems are specifically?

Sounds like the onset of dementia. Evidently, he's been existing in sort of a daze for the last few months - making the wrong votes, uttering non-sequiturs during debate, etc.

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After last night, I wonder what an open Presley vs McDaniel race would look like in 2018...

Pretty sure McDaniel would go down. Mississippi is a lot friendlier territory than ol' Bammer.

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Speaking of McDaniel: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/12/13/roy-moore-mississippi-fallout-chris-mcdaniel-cant-catch-break/948061001/

It sounds like Bannon is courting him and it's working.

I wonder what a Gene Taylor vs. McDaniel would look like


If the GOP nominates McDaniel and somehow manages to give Democrats another senator from the Deep South, I don't think I'm ever going to stop laughing

Yeah. And Presley's a pretty popular figure in northern Mississippi. The state has a higher black vote than Alabama so He's have more room for error with white voters.

Presley, Bredesen, O'Rourke, Graham, Evans... could be the return of the southern white Democrats next year. With Jeff Jackson in 2020 too.

In a perfect world, Mississippi will have Senators Presley/Mabus and Governor Hood by 2019.

I think Gene Taylor would win as well against McDaniel, the question is how he wins the primary

Especially considering he's a Republican now.

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Yeah, this is the seat McDaniel wants. He's gonna bounce from the Wicker race as soon as the special election is called.

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The last time this actually happened was when Minnesota Governor Wendell Anderson resigned and had his LG appoint him to fill Walter Mondale’s seat in 1977. The only governor to appoint himself to the Senate and win the seat for himself was Kentucky Governor Happy Chandler in 1939.

Joe Manchin would like to have a word with you.

Actually, Manchin appointed Goodwin as a seatwarmer before hopping up into the special election himself. His intentions were blatantly obvious, but he didn't just flat-out appoint himself.

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MS isn't electing a black man statewide.

Espy would need something like only 20% of white voters with strong black turnout.

Exactly that. And both of those things are very likely when the most apparent GOP nominee is an out-and-out Neo-Confederate.

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Espy is a C-list candidate at best (really D-list because he's such a nasty and notoriously corrupt individual).  The only way this could be competitive is McDaniel vs. Presley.

Espy was exonerated of all wrongdoing in the corruption charges against him.

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Is CHS a former Democrat or something?

Brandon Presely or Jim Hood need to get off their ass and run.

Actually she is. Like Parker Griffith and Artur Davis, she jumped ship in 2010 and joined the Republicans.

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Taggart is not joining the race. Seems like Hyde-Smith is successfully consolidating the establishment Republicans behind her.

Just like Luther Strange.