OFFICIAL Mississippi U.S. Senate Election RESULTS THREAD

[YesI'mALiberal]

Let me ask you, did McDaniels make any effort to make foreign policy an issue in the race? Hmm? (It is a Senate race you know) Did he come out forcefully say no U.S. troops or any more money spent in Iraq and a vote Cochran is a vote for war, especially since Cochran had attacked Ron Paul? Had he done so don't you think he might have prevented some black voters from turning out for Cochran (after all, who's going to vote for a war monger?) and might have won the election? Hmmm, anyone down there think of that?

Win an election by appealing to the most voters?!? What a novel thought!

Here you all are objecting to Cochran reaching out for the black vote and yet who do we all know is trying to do the same thing? Seems to me either way Rand Paul was going to come out ahead tonight and that's pretty smart politics.

Prediction: if the McDaniels camp/Tea Party groups contest this election, Rand Paul will be called on to disavow them (including firing Ken Cuccinelli) or be labeled a hypocrite.

 

[Bastiat's The Law]

At least we're one step closer to leaving the GOP. Paleos, libertarians and TPers need to get the hell out.

There's no viable third party though. If there was one it would be interesting because libertarians would likely be at the forefront of it, but and here's the rub, we'd only be locking ourselves into a perpetual bridesmaid role because the democrats would either win everything outright, or the establishment republicans would join with the dems to block us.

Now if that enormous political realignment happened it might work to our favor long-term, but it would still take a lot of waking up and educating. Not sure if we have that much time left. It would be exciting and helluva lot less confusing to the average person though. You would definitely know which party was for big government and which advocated for liberty.

 

[Bastiat's The Law]

They should do the opposite. Pile on, use this to galvanize people and bury the establishment for good

You mean boot the establishment progressives from the republican party?

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

Write in time... if that means the demonrat candidate wins then so be it...

 

[klamath]

McDaniel should have Out did Cochran at his own game. McDaniel should have starting hitting every black district in MS heavily campaigning.

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

I think I'll have a sign made up - Thad Cochran: The strongest Democrat in the Republican party!!

 

[William Tell]

Compare the Primary to the Runoff on number of votes:

Primary:

[h=5]Republican[/h] 100% Reporting

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[TABLE="class: results-table"]
[TR="class: type-republican"]
[TH="class: results-name"]Winner* C. McDaniel[/TH]
[TD="class: results-percentage"]49.5%[/TD]
[TD="class: results-popular"]155,040[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: type-republican"]
[TH="class: results-name"]Winner* T. Cochran (i)[/TH]
[TD="class: results-percentage"]49.0%[/TD]
[TD="class: results-popular"]153,654[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: type-republican"]
[TH="class: results-name"] T. Carey[/TH]
[TD="class: results-percentage"]1.5%[/TD]
[TD="class: results-popular"]4,789[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

Runoff:

[h=2]Overall Mississippi Senate Primary Runoff Results[/h]
[h=5]Republican[/h] 100% Reporting

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[TABLE="class: results-table"]
[TR="class: type-republican"]
[TH="class: results-name"]Winner T. Cochran (i)[/TH]
[TD="class: results-percentage"]50.9%[/TD]
[TD="class: results-popular"]191,508[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: type-republican"]
[TH="class: results-name"] C. McDaniel[/TH]
[TD="class: results-percentage"]49.1%[/TD]
[TD="class: results-popular"]184,815[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

 

[mosquitobite]

Guess those crossovers voted for him after all:
http://www.politico.com/2014-election/results/map/senate/mississippi/#.VFr9BjTF-So