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[Spectator]

No shot. It’ll be single digits, but no shot it flips if it couldn’t be done in 2019.

[Spectator]

A mental exercize: would Jim Eastland-type candidate (i mean Eastland of 1970th, not 1950th, i.e. - conservative, but, essentially, not overly racist anymore) win governor election NOW (suppose - he is running unopposed in primary, and nomination is guaranteed), or Democratic label would sink even such candidate? Does final result depends on candidate and his/her views or purely on party membership?

This happened in 2019

Hood? He was much more liberal then Eastland. I meant real conservative, not a person whom liberals call "conservative". For some even Dianne Feinstein is a "conservative" (i laughed heartily when i read this....)

Hood defended the states abortion laws in court and was adamantly pro-life and pro-gun. He was as culturally conservative as they come. He did everything right from an ideological perspective and still couldn’t come within the last 5 points.

[Spectator]

The Democrat will lose, whether it’s a gay black liberal greenie or Theodore Bilbo’s ghost. Pressley will decisively lose.

That's because Theodore Bilbo would be too economically liberal for Mississippi if he were alive today.

Bilbo was likely the most vile rascist ever in either House of Congress, but he was also an FDR Democrat and a down-the-line New Deal supporter.

That was exactly the reason i used James Eastland not Bilbo in my "mental exercise". Eastland was substantially more economically conservative while only slightly less racist. Even better example would be John Bell Williams, who was all around conservative: economically, socially and racially, but i think it would be extremely difficult to even find such Democrat today...

What would the point of being a Democrat even be then if they have to be as conservative as a Republican to win?