It will have been 16 years of Republican rule, and Hood seems to have built his own brand.
I'm hoping this will factor in, but I have zero faith in the state party.
Hood would need to pretty much sweep all of the Dixiecrat counties in the NE corner of the state (Reeves is kind of an awful candidate for NE MS - Millsaps grad from Rankin County), because South Mississippi will go heavily for Reeves.
It can be done, but I don't feel great about it.
Me too. Reeves may be disliked by many, but - he doesn't have David Vitter's scandals behind his back. In the South that's usually enough for Republican victory. In substantially more liberal North Carolina Cooper was barely able to beat McCrory despite HB2 publicity...