Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

White supremacy is terrorism.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Let there be snark.

I was promised a recession.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

This blog will pay for itself.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Republicans in disarray!

The revolution will be supervised.

Not all heroes wear capes.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

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  2. 2.

    JPL

    As I mentioned in a lower thread, I need to take a shower, since I’m cheering for the one who is not quite as racist as the other.

  4. 4.

    Hunter Gathers

    If Cochran wins, we may get Peak Wingnut. Especially if it any reporting shows that AA voters won it for him.

  5. 5.

    srv

    How come we don’t have standards for States?

    Mississippi should be a territory, not a state.

  7. 7.

    catclub

    Another amusing note. Pearl River County, right next door to John C Stennis Space Center, the giant government installation in the region,… goes 73-27 for McDaniel.

    You know all those stories of libertarians who turn out to be government employees?
    or maybe they all voted in the Democratic primary.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: Not sure I’ll lose sleep over this one, but anything that gets us even a slim chance to take the seat in the fall is better than nothing. The one I might lose sleep over is Crist in Florida.

    I don’t know what he’s done that so many here think he’s slimy, but he beats the hell out of any republican.

  11. 11.

    JPL

    @catclub: Well are they white workers or black workers. That might make a difference.

    McDaniel is one that thinks the blacks are taking money from the whites.

  12. 12.

    Zam

    @srv: We’ll definitely see some scary stuff from the tea party types on black people, but if it happens it should really serve to show that its these extremists dominating the republican party that is driving away black people not the promise of “free stuff.” Of course that won’t happen because psychopaths like these aren’t capable of self reflection.

  14. 14.

    Anoniminous

    Holy _____!

    87% reporting and it is 50/50 with a 1,500 vote difference.

    ETA: Cochran still has the lead.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    This is the first election cycle that I have not had to cover as part of my job (I was, among other things, the political officer for the Canadian Consulate General in Atlanta, and for 25 years I reported regularly on campaigns, election results, and state legislature and Congressional votes for six Southeast states). Feels odd to be watching returns come in from Mississippi and not be sitting cross-legged in bed taking notes so I could file a report first thing the next morning.

    You can take the girl out of the political minutiae, but you can’t ….

  19. 19.

    amk

    EJ Dionne

    MT @AriMelber: Cochran has gone from running anti-Obama ads to begging Dem voters to save his career. @kasie (paraphrasing) to @craigmelvin

  20. 20.

    madmommy

    @catclub:
    The Stennis Space Center is about an hour away from NOLA, so it is possible that quite a lot of their employees live in Louisiana rather than Mississippi. There’s really nothing in Pearl River County other than the space center, it is nothing but swamp and woods. As a Louisiana resident, we take a certain comfort in the fact that no matter how bad it gets here, Mississippi is worse. I was in Long Beach MS over the weekend and saw quite a few Cochran signs, but nothing for McDaniel.

  21. 21.

    Anoniminous

    Perry county hasn’t reported and it’s smack in the middle of McDaniel country. Holmes and Pontotac haven’t reported either. If Perry goes big for McDaniel – and I have no idea how many votes there are, there – McDaniel could win this thing.

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    @rikyrah: Can you spare a few words on why he is a human oil slick? I don’t think betty cracker likes him, either. You don’t live in florida, do you?

  26. 26.

    Anoniminous

    @Baud:

    Wouldn’t that be fun?

    I’d love to have either one win and then lose in a recount. Nice set-up for a faction fight.

    ETA: @The Dangerman: ding, ding, ding we have a winner

  28. 28.

    Suffern ACE

    In defense of Mississippi using a random trivia, I recently learned that Mississippi’s department of transportation was responsible for developing the principles behind the shape of street signs, including the eight sided stop sign.

  29. 29.

    JPL

    92% and Cochran is still leading by a percent and a little over 4,000. This is a nail biter. Time for a shower.

  30. 30.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @WaterGirl:

    Many of my election reports began one of two ways:

    “As widely expected, …. ”

    or

    “In a stunning upset, …. “

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    I got a zillion bug bites this morning, and they are suddenly itching up a storm. I am going to try to interrupt the itch cycle by taking a shower. I would like election returns to be complete and all races settled by the time I return, please. Thank you.

  33. 33.

    pseudonymous in nc

    I’m definitely cheering on the prospect of a bitter recount with lots of coverage of $500k/year teabaggers complaining about Those People voting.

  36. 36.

    gbear

    I’m kind of hoping that we find out tomorrow that not one black person showed up to vote in the republican primary.

  37. 37.

    Anoniminous

    @JPL:

    Part of that was Pontotoc county. Perry county did go McDaniel but not enough votes (yet) to push him over.

    We’re running of votes now.

  41. 41.

    Morzer

    94.2% Cochrane’s lead collapses to ~1,100

    Supposedly the last big chunk of votes from Jones haven’t yet come in, which could be very bad news for Ol’ Thad.

  42. 42.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @WaterGirl:

    Something bitey seems to be chewing me up in my sleep recently. I’m not aware of … whatever it is … while they are taking chunks out of me, but I am waking up in the mornings with great itchy swollen welts on my cheek or forehead, or right next to my eye. They make me crazy for a couple of hours, then subside. I assume I have a mosquito on the loose, but they don’t usually go for my face, so I dunno.

  44. 44.

    rikyrah

    @WaterGirl:
    I don’t live in Florida. Crist is what could be called a thinking Republican. The reason he is called a thinking Republican because the rest of the party is frigging insane. I have to give credit to Crist for the following:
    1. He restored felon voting rights
    2. He didn’t purge voter rolls
    3. He extended early voting

    All of these mean a great deal to me

    I consider him a Human Oil Slick cause a heavily rumored gay man got married to a woman, which says a great deal about his ambition.

  45. 45.

    dnl

    I graduated from high school in MS when Trent Lott, then Senate majority leader, spoke at our quite small school. With Thad Cochran you had a relatively small state with the number 1 and perhaps number 3-5 senators in the US. One of the most potentially powerful combinations a state of our size has had in Congress.

    Even then, post Contract of America, people were talking about term limits in MS as a way to fix government. I just couldn’t fathom it. Didn’t they understand the years of federal funding the state needed to catch up with the rest of the country? The US could decide to actively fix its lagging states, such as MS and LA, either directly or targeted by class in a new war on poverty, by tripling the money we spend there on education, infrastructure, and job creation. It would take 30 years to make a dent.

  47. 47.

    Morzer

    ‏@samrhall
    DeSoto County with 87% in, and McDaniel has 6,400 vote lead. Huge turnout there. Already surpassed primary totals.

  48. 48.

    lamh36

    If Cochran pulls this thru, or even gets close, it would seem it may be on the backs of African American voters in MISS, literally.

    Cochran was down in the polls or within neck and neck with McDaniels so who did he go to…he went hat in hand to Black neighborhood and courted their votes.

    And from what I’m reading already, it would seem that African American turnout is more than usual.

    @TPM 55m
    NYTimes reporter: Turnout appears to be up in African-American-heavy areas http://bit.ly/1iv05Zc #MSSEN

    As a fellow African American, here’s hoping that those African Americans who came out in larger numbers than usual to vote for GOP candidate in Mississippi also comes bout in large numbers for the general election.

    I suspect thought that if he does win, then Cochran will not be courting the same African American voters in the general.

    @RLM_3 51m
    Thad Cochran will take his victory and give black Mississippians the middle finger, just like he did for the last 40 years. #Mississippi

  50. 50.

    Morzer

    94.8% Cochrane ahead by ~2,400 – BUT Jones county is pretty much done.

    Might be that Bestiality will hold off the last surge by Lunacy.

  51. 51.

    pseudonymous in nc

    Oh, no statutory recount provision in Mississippi, but you can seek a recount through the courts. Pass the popcorn.

  52. 52.

    James E. Powell

    Look, we all know that Mississippi is honeycombed with Black Panther and ACORN sleeper cells – unfunded but undaunted! Well, acting on direct orders from Obama himself, these anti-American & anti-God forces mobilized to nominate Cochran. Obama did this for Cochran in exchange for Cochran’s agreement to vote in support of Obama’s plan to impose Shari’a Law throughout these United States.

    I swear, I read it on the internet!

  53. 53.

    ruemara

    These days? What goldens days of unfuckitude are you pining for? It’s fucking Mississippi.

  55. 55.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @catclub: If McDaniel wins, I think President Obama should oblige the sesech and close Stennis, and maybe give the spoils to Huntsville Alabama provided the Alabama congressional delegations kneel before him.(I know I know, but can’t guy get a Walter Mitty revenge fantasy?)

  56. 56.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JPL:

    More than cordial. I’ve had Tom come up to me at receptions and give me a BIG {{{hug}}}! Impressed the hell out of some of my colleagues :-)

    (On a more pleasant note, John Lewis has done the same. But he seems a more huggy type, so while it was very nice, it wasn’t unexpected.)

  57. 57.

    James E. Powell

    If Cochran pulls this thru, or even gets close, it would seem it may be on the backs of African American voters in MISS, literally.

    Is there anything that the white ruling class in Mississippi has that was not gained from the backs of African-Americans, literally?

  59. 59.

    Anne Laurie

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I am waking up in the mornings with great itchy swollen welts on my cheek or forehead, or right next to my eye. They make me crazy for a couple of hours, then subside.

    Sounds like an allergic reaction — you changed anything in your pre-sleep skincare routine recently? Or even the laundry detergent you’re using on your linens?

  60. 60.

    ⚽️ Martin

    @lamh36: I’d be willing to bet that almost no african americans turned out. The GOP attacks on voting rights tells you they understand how important voting is just as much as black voters. Threatening to have black voters come out in MS is a great GOTV strategy. Low turnout elections always favor the challenger. The better the turnout, the better the odds for the incumbent.

  61. 61.

    Tommy

    @efgoldman: I am a midwest person, but cause of my father’s government service and college I’ve lived in the deep south. Louisiana and Texas. I can usually put my finger on the pulse of an area but I am at a lost for the deep south. I live in a pretty blue dog district but we have nice things. Really nice things.

    We tend to vote for our interest. I don’t know how you live in a state where by every measure you are close to last or last in the nation and not think to yourself this is FUBAR. Maybe we need to vote for somebody else.

  62. 62.

    max

    GrooveSDC @GrooveSDC · 6m
    Unfortunately these are the choices many Black people face at the polls. Vote for the guy who hates you or the guy who really hates you?

    max
    [‘171,971 Cochran, 169,445 McDaniel, 95% reporting’]

  63. 63.

    pseudonymous in nc

    Why, in American state-wide elections, is there always one fucking county that declares long after all the others?

    Put the damn results in a box, send them to the state capital, and announce the total there.

    Seriously, people, you’ve been full of helpful hints these past weeks about how to change the rules of association football, so maybe take that spirit and apply it to elections?

  68. 68.

    WaterGirl

    @rikyrah: Thanks for the reply. The marriage thing doesn’t bother me, and neither does ambition. I don’t think you get to be governor without a good deal of ambition.

  70. 70.

    Anne Laurie

    In other election news, POLITICO says Lankford (the Ginger) beat Shannon (African-American/Chickasaw):

    Lankford received 56 percent of the vote – well over the 50-percent threshold need to avoid the runoff, while Shannon received 36 percent, according to the Associated Press, with 74 percent of precincts reporting. Former state Sen. Randy Brogdon received 4 percent and the rest of the candidates received roughly 4 percent combined.

    Shannon’s failure to push the race to a runoff is a blow to prominent conservative groups, who invested $1.7 million into the race but mostly focused on the Mississippi Senate runoff in the closing weeks.

    The former state House speaker, who is biracial — an African-American member of the Chickasaw Nation — had been seen as a rising star in the Republican Party, which has struggled in making inroads with minorities. At a rally in April with Shannon and Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, Sarah Palin called Shannon “the whole package.”…

    Another proof of Palin’s (negative) ability to pick winners.

  71. 71.

    lamh36

    @⚽️ Martin: So far the reporting is that all the increases are in AA areas and that their seems to be an increase.

    Also too…this:

    @ppppolls 41s
    Our last public statewide poll in MS Cochran’s approval was 43/43 with African Americans, pretty unheard of for GOP pol

    We’ll see if this falls out

  72. 72.

    Anoniminous

    Only Holmes county to report and it’s doubtful there are enough votes left for McDaniel to win.

  73. 73.

    dnl

    @efgoldman:

    Sometimes I feel that way too, especially when I hear secessionist/sedition bullshit from TX or LA governors. However, like several other southern Tea Party dominated states, you are affecting the lively hood of a significant population of the disenfranchised poor. The state political machines there could use a crashing, but I’m torn on throwing them to the wolves.

  74. 74.

    Cacti

    @lamh36:

    I also suspect that if black Mississippians put Cochran over the top, he’ll do two things for them.

    Jack and shit.

  75. 75.

    JPL

    OMG, Bad repub up by 4,000 with 95% reporting and WHACKOo repub still close. This is really a tough race.

  76. 76.

    Morzer

    @samrhall · 41s
    Already surpassed 340,000 votes, which is more than primary. Unbelievable. #MSSen

  77. 77.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @PhoenixRising:

    I don’t think so, honestly. I’ve never seen a sign of bedbugs, and having spent a lot of time in hotels when I was working, I got kind of paranoid about checking bedclothes for signs of infestation. Also, I would expect bites on my legs and torso and arms, not a couple of places on my face. I’m thinking mosquitos or those little harmless but annoying spiders. If it persists, I’ll check with my dermatologist.

    ETA: “having spent a lot of time in hotels when I was working” didn’t come out quite right! LOL!

  78. 78.

    juststoppingby

    folks, you might also want to pay attention to the results out of NY-13, the Harlem/Washington Heights district that Charlie Rangel has ruled since Achilles was a pup. as of this writing Rangel is up by about 500 votes (out of about 15,000, or 48%, with 34% reporting). couple of dark horses are siphoning off a few thousand votes. Rangel has stuck around too long and lost the hop on his fastball yonks ago, but his main opponent, Adriano Espaillat, is an opportunistic scumbag. i held my nose for Charlie, and i didn’t even get a lousy t-shirt.

  82. 82.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: I’m not sure what to think about that one.

    Edit: That one = that election result. Not that one by john mccain’s definition.

  83. 83.

    Getsmartin

    @madmommy: I live in Long Beach …. Believe me, although we’re not as top heavy here on the coast with the hard core winger numbers as upstate, McD support is substantial (driving by polling locales this afternoon was telling). Whatever the outcome, I’d vote for an Aardvark before I’d vote for a Republican.

  84. 84.

    Violet

    @SiubhanDuinne: Get checked for shingles! My dad is struggling with it and they can affect your eye. If you catch it within the first 72 hours of the lesions showing up, the anti-viral medication is effective. Otherwise not so much. Shingles near the eye can be dangerous for your eyes. Worth getting checked.

  86. 86.

    max

    @pseudonymous in nc: Why, in American state-wide elections, is there always one fucking county that declares long after all the others?

    Because those are usually the very poorest of the black, Hispanic or Native American counties where the government is starved of funds and there are not enough staffer, not enough voting equipment, and the equipment they do have is obsolete.

    And if you watch individual precincts in urban counties, the poorest (and most minority) ones come in last, particularly in the South.

    You’d almost think there was some kind of intentional government neglect applying to voting in minority areas.

    max
    [‘Naw. Couldn’t be.’]

  87. 87.

    ⚽️ Martin

    @lamh36: Well, there’s about 350,000 votes in this race, in a state of 3 million, 1.8 million registered voters. That means 1 million white registered voters. So we get this outcome with only a 35% turnout of white voters and not a single black voter showing up.

    So maybe black voters did turn out, but statistically this outcome doesn’t require it.

  88. 88.

    catclub

    4000 votes is 1%. I will be surprised at a recount changing that.

    Holmes county still not reporting, but it is likely to favor Thad.

  90. 90.

    Morzer

    @AmyKremer

    If Cochran wins this #mssen race, the GOP is done. They teamed up with Dems to steal a race. Kiss the base goodbye.

    Looks like the teabaggers are being their usual gracious, happy selves.

  91. 91.

    WaterGirl

    @SiubhanDuinne: When I was 13, my older sister wanted to make a romantic dinner for her boyfriend on an upcoming Friday night. My mom was concerned about what I would do, and I couldn’t understand what the problem was when I said, “That’s okay, I’ll go walk the streets”.

    A bunch of us kids would just walk the streets in the evening, hanging out, what was wrong with that??

  92. 92.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Violet:

    I had a nasty attack of shingles four or five years ago, and this ain’t it (mercifully). This is just random bites.

  96. 96.

    Mike E

    @PhoenixRising: If it’s a bed bug infestation, heat is the only course of house treatment: raise the interior temp to above 110° for a couple of days and put clothing in a hot dryer for good measure, too.

    Trust me.

  99. 99.

    catclub

    @Morzer: Erick Erickson was saying that if McDaniel won, the establishment GOP would sabotage him in the general. Maybe the tea party will sabotage Cochran in the general!

    Projection and all that.

  100. 100.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: I didn’t know until yesterday when I read that Barack Obama did not come out as supporting Rangel. When I saw that, I figured something was going on there.

  102. 102.

    Morzer

    96.8% Cochrane leads by ~4,300

    DeSoto and Jones are both done, Holmes is in – hard to see where Lunacy finds the votes to turn this around.

  103. 103.

    dnl

    @efgoldman:
    I wouldn’t be here if Congress hadn’t passed TVA. So would a lot of other people, and the country would be much poorer. It’s the leaders of white old boy MS that screwed and have been screwing over the state. Things will get worse, much worse, for African Americans (37% of the population) and poor whites (who vote Republican because they hate blacks) when things get worse. If the latter could be hit hard with a harsh economic reality without once again hurting the former I would be all for it.

  105. 105.

    Gordon, the Big Express Engine

    This reminds a lot of the Pappy O’ Daniel/Homer Stokes race back in the 1930s.

    Mississippi politicians had integrity and values back then. Heck, Pappy O’ Daniel invented moral fiber!

  106. 106.

    Violet

    @SiubhanDuinne: Glad to hear it. Sounds like you’ve got some kind of a nest of something near your bed. Maybe vacuum around everywhere at the head of the bed and wash the covers in addition to changing the sheets would help.

  107. 107.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    I would like to go to RedState and (not so)Free Republic to see the reactions, but I don’t enough disinfectant to delouse.

  108. 108.

    Tommy

    @WaterGirl: I live now in the town I went to high school in. As a kid I was outside all the time. Day. Night. You name it. Still pretty much the case with kids in my town. On a weekend there are a lot of kids out. Going to the parks. Walking around. One of the reasons I live here. I like that.

  109. 109.

    Anoniminous

    By my calculation there are ~11,000 votes left and McDaniel will have to get around 66% of ’em to win. It’s doable but highly unlikely.

  110. 110.

    jibeaux

    @Morzer: lol, what kind of threat is “you’ll lose your base” supposed to be to a a republican in Mississippi? It’s a really deep fucking bench.

  111. 111.

    madmommy

    @Getsmartin:
    I was only there for a few hours, took the kids over to visit with my mom as she was in town for her HS reunion. We drove around and saw the sights and I noticed the various yard signs. It’s been since before Katrina that I’d gone over there, amazing to see how different the coast looked!

  113. 113.

    Morzer

    96.9% Cochrane leads by ~4,400

    I anticipate some quality hootin’ and hollerin’ as Thad Cochrane leads Mississippi towards a bright new era of sharia law.

  115. 115.

    Anne Laurie

    @juststoppingby:

    Rangel has stuck around too long and lost the hop on his fastball yonks ago, but his main opponent, Adriano Espaillat, is an opportunistic scumbag. i held my nose for Charlie, and i didn’t even get a lousy t-shirt.

    The NYTimes had a big wet kiss of an “interview” with Rev. Walrond yesterday. If Sen. Rangel loses to Espillat by less than 7%, I have the sneaking suspicion Walrond will *not* be a popular guy in his community… but then, I haven’t been a New Yorker for the past 40 years!

  116. 116.

    Morzer

    98.1% Cochrane leads by ~4,500

    Bestiality moving toward the finish line confidently now.

  119. 119.

    JPL

    Why hasn’t the MS been called? The only reason, imo, is that they still think McDaniel can win.

    @SiubhanDuinne: As long as you shower, ha, why don’t you get a bug bomb and stay with me a few days.

  122. 122.

    juststoppingby

    @Anne Laurie: that was such a weird story. if you’re going to do a beat-sweetener, shouldn’t it be with someone who (putatively) matters?

  124. 124.

    Morzer

    AP has called the race for Cochrane. Should be a fun next 24 hours as the teabaggers go into full ragegasm mode.

  126. 126.

    dslak

    According to Twitter, Cochran’s victory doesn’t count because he only achieved it with help from Democrats. I may not have enough popcorn.

  129. 129.

    pseudonymous in nc

    @max:

    You’d almost think there was some kind of intentional government neglect applying to voting in minority areas.

    Point taken, and Homes County is 80% black, total population 21,000. Still, if it’s not poor minority areas in the south where the county board’s equipment budget extends to a blunt pencil, it’s some weird part of the midwest where the elected head of the county board compiles results with Excel 2002 and set of post-it notes.

  130. 130.

    lamh36

    @Nate_Cohn · 2h
    Turnout was up 45 percent in Cohoma County, which is 71 percent black . Great sign for Cochran.

    @teddyschleifer · 4h
    182 votes cast so far at New Hope church in Jackson’s Precinct 83. Only 41 total votes in heavily black precinct in first June election.

  131. 131.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JPL:

    Thanks, JPL! I must have made it sound much worse than it is! Just an itchy welt or two on my face when I wake up in the morning, nothing at all serious.

    But thank you, seriously.

  132. 132.

    max

    @Morzer:

    @AmyKremer
    If Cochran wins this #mssen race, the GOP is done. They teamed up with Dems to steal a race. Kiss the base goodbye.

    The ultra-crazies aren’t done, and the right-wing will continue to push rightwardly as always, but the Second Great Neo-Confederate Rebellion part is toast.

    Sayonara and kiss my race traitor ass, O Konfederate Kheer Korps.

    max
    [‘So we have got that going for us.’]

  133. 133.

    JPL

    @dslak: that is what the NYTimes is saying but in not that way. There was a concern about education among the minorities.

  135. 135.

    lamh36

    @DavidCornDC 13m
    I am tickled by conservatives whining that it is playing the race card for black voters to choose one white guy over another. #mssen.

    ‏@DavidCornDC 6m
    Remember this Tea Party Rs, you were sold out. You were betrayed. You were stabbed in the back by GOP establishment. Don’t accept that.

  138. 138.

    WaterGirl

    @JPL: Hey, you’re up to 19/31 people in favor of your book review. I mentioned on the other thread that that seems like a lot of action for a book review, especially this late in the evening. Someone from the dark side must have some people voting, as well.

    Someone replied to your review and was negative about the book, and their comment got hidden. I clicked to see it and clicked to say I thought it contributed to the conversation, so it’s visible again.

    Did you read the book? Because one person says that you didn’t say you read the book, so who cares about your opinion anyway? (I do, of course.)

  139. 139.

    lamh36

    Dave Wasserman ‏@Redistrict 6m
    Looking at county data, Cochran’s #MSSEN win is almost entirely attributable to a large turnout increase among black voters b/t 6/3 and 6/24

  141. 141.

    Anoniminous

    @lamh36:

    hee

    That’s going to send the TeaBaggers in general and the McDaniel people completely around the bend.

  142. 142.

    WaterGirl

    I’m glad efgoldman let me know that the Crist primary isn’t until august. I would have gotten awfully tired trying to stay up waiting for the results on that one!

  143. 143.

    gbear

    @lamh36: I’ve been reading David Corn tweets on a couple of blogs this evening. He’s having altogether too much fun with this.

  144. 144.

    JPL

    @dslak: hmm what? Maybe some of them understood that there was a candidate that didn’t believe in federal funding for education.

  145. 145.

    cmorenc

    AP has called the Miss. R Senate runoff for Cochran, who has over a 4k lead with over 98% of precincts reporting, and nearly all McDaniel-friendly areas already in. And it’s quite apparent that Cochran won with the help of black voters turning out in Mississippi’s open primary and runoff elections, even though 99% of them will vote for his democratic opponent in November.

  146. 146.

    Morzer

    @gbear:

    David Corn @DavidCornDC · 12m
    Remember this Tea Party Rs, you were sold out. You were betrayed. You were stabbed in the back by GOP establishment. Don’t accept that.

  147. 147.

    lamh36

    Erick Erickson ‏@EWErickson 3m
    At this point it looks like the tea partiers are the RINOs and the GOP will use Democrats to hold on to power.

  148. 148.

    lamh36

    @samrhall 54s
    First blush analysis: Cochran’s win is going to be more about GOP increases than Democratic outreach. #MSSen

    @chrisLrob 8m
    I have serious doubts black Democrats affected this race. I absolutely LOVE the idea, though! #mssen

  149. 149.

    Morzer

    David Corn @DavidCornDC · 20m
    I am tickled by conservatives whining that it is playing the race card for black voters to choose one white guy over another.

  150. 150.

    dslak

    @JPL: I misunderstood. I thought you meant there was “concern” about the “education” of the minorities among the teabaggers. I understand what you meant now.

  152. 152.

    lamh36

    @DanaHoule 31s
    Libs complaining about black turnout: 2012 it was higher than white turnout…despite being harder for blacks to vote. Knock it off

  153. 153.

    catclub

    The breaking news headline at the Clarion Ledger is “Thad Cochran wins re-election to U.S. Senate.” which is technically not yet true. I am still voting for Childers in the fall. I wonder if any of the things McDaniel used will bite in the fall. Old, out of touch, possibly has dementia. I doubt it.

    I think this means Haley Barbour is our senator in two years.

  154. 154.

    JPL

    @WaterGirl: Honestly I didn’t read the book because I wouldn’t. The reason I wrote the review was because it was featured on Insider’s edition or one of those shows. I had the TV on mute and looked up and it was highlighting the book. So maybe the person who accused me of not reading the book, knows that Hill and Bama spent time in the Lincoln bedroom. hmmm

  155. 155.

    Getsmartin

    @madmommy: I feel more “connected” with nola than I do with this state in which reside (living an hour from New Orleans makes living in Miss. tolerable). I feel like an alien when I venture any distance north of I-10.

    Indeed – Katrina wrecked this area. Thank the FSM federal relief!

  157. 157.

    Citizen Alan

    You can talk about “passing the popcorn,” but Travis Childers only hope was for McDaniels to win. There will be no big donors for Childers against Cochran. The Teabaggers are mad now, but they’ll come home in November because “better a RINO than a Marxist” (which is what they genuinely believe the conservative Childers to be). My expectation is that Childers will basically shut his campaign down next week and just keep his name on the ballot in case Cochran keels over dead or something.

  159. 159.

    The Dangerman

    @Morzer:

    They teamed up with Dems to steal a race. Kiss the base goodbye.

    The chance of the base not turning out for the Republicans in November is roughly the same as the lobster in the tank at Red Lobster finding freedom.

  160. 160.

    Tommy

    @Getsmartin: I bet. My grandfather started a tradition when he was stationed in TX during WWII of spending a week in NOLA. I was born in Baton Rouge when my father was at LSU. Went to grad school there myself. My love of the state is hard to put into words.

  161. 161.

    lamh36

    @Citizen Alan: Or maybe Childers can at the very least try to IDK get boots on the ground in the same Black neighborhoods that Cochran seemed to do in the past 2 weeks? I mean if he gonna lose anyway, what has he got to lose. Go out, and ask African Americans for their votes, don’t just assume you got them or they’ll come out. Go to the neighborhood and do it and who knows maybe just maybe you can galvanize that vote.

    Doesn’t Mississippi have the largest percentage of African American votes in the south (or in the nation I thought). It’s better to try and fail, than to not even try at all…right?

  162. 162.

    madmommy

    @Getsmartin:

    I remember going there every summer as a child to visit the grandparents, so we drove by the old house this weekend. I have vivid memories of playing in the sprinkler in the front yard, swinging in the swing my Poppa made for us and hung in the big oak tree out back. When we got to the house I couldn’t believe how tiny it was, and the front yard was miniscule. I know when you’re a little kid everything seems bigger but…it is the house my mom grew up in, so if she says that is the place, I have to believe her!

  163. 163.

    lamh36

    @NerdyWonka 40m
    That moment when Republicans use legislation to suppress the vote of African-Americans, then beg them to vote in the Mississippi GOP Primary

    @AdamSerwer 4m
    So when the night is over, possible a black Dem in Harlem may win thanks to white voters and a white Rep in Miss because of black voters?

  166. 166.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Citizen Alan: I get that, but I feel like McDaniel is a true believer pod person like Ted Cruz, and I do not want someone like that anywhere near the sausage factory of government. He has that creepy College Republican / vacation Bible school affect that’s somehow both phony and all too real.

  168. 168.

    lamh36

    Wow, tea party types are really not taking Thad’s win well…

    @poo_picker 3h
    I can forgive Cochran for banging sheep. But he ought to burn in hell fire for recruiting democrat voters with money and race bait #mssen

  170. 170.

    Getsmartin

    @Tommy: Nice…. I know Red Stick well. My GF lives in Nola, so I’m there nearly every weekend. It’s truly one of the great cities in this country. I always bring friends to places not on the typical tourist itinerary just to gauge their reaction. It’s dreamy.

  172. 172.

    lamh36

    @donnabrazile 1m
    “@perrybaconjr: Cochran speaks for about 2 minutes, shakes a few hands and heads out. Seems like least excited person in the building.”

    [email protected] Let’s see how @SenThadCochran votes on the new VRA bill. Getting hearing in senate judiciary committee tomorrow.

  173. 173.

    lamh36

    Oooh, McDaniel’s not happy…wonder why….

    @mikememoli 1m
    McDaniel: “There is something a bit unusual about a Republican primary that’s decided by liberal Democrats”

    @BrettLoGiurato 2m
    McDaniel’s speech does not much sound like a concession. “We’re not done fighting.”

  176. 176.

    Getsmartin

    @madmommy: Speaking of Oaks, remember the Friendship Oak on the old Gulf Park College campus (now a southern miss. satellite campus)? It’s a 500 year old beauty.

  177. 177.

    lamh36

    @kasie 1m
    “There were literally dozens of irregularities reported all across this state,” McDaniel says

  179. 179.

    lamh36

    @kasie 2m
    SIREN: McDaniel: Before this race is over we have to make absolutely certain the republican primary was won by republican voters

  180. 180.

    Betty Cracker

    @WaterGirl: FWIW, I don’t dislike Crist; he wasn’t a terrible governor, and unlike some Blue Dogs, he defends Obama and the ACA. He’s a rank opportunist, but he doesn’t seem like a bad guy. I’ll vote for him if he’s the nominee.

  181. 181.

    Tommy

    @Getsmartin: My best friend there was from Vermont. I guess my home state is IL. We spent countless hours driving around the south of the state. It was like a foreign world for us. I don’t dislike NOLA but the rest of the state. Wow!

    They would often call me a “Yankee” and say I talk funny. Then be the most inviting people I’ve ever met.

  182. 182.

    PhoenixRising

    Does the FSM love us enough to provide a write-in campaign for McDaniel?

    Salt that earth, true believers. You were robbed by the ni-CLANG lie-berals in Jackson.

  184. 184.

    lamh36

    Whoa, that McDaniel “concession” speech was dog-whistling all over the place!!

    @kasie 4m
    Supporter shouts: “send their ass to prison ”

    @JackieBodnar 11m
    “If the only way the K Street wing of the GOP estab can win is by courting Dems to vote in GOP primaries, then we’ve already won.” – @mkibbe

    @NerdyWonka 1m
    McDaniel: “There’s something a bit unusual about a Republican primary that’s decided by liberal Democrats.”
    Black people ..Say it, McDaniel

    @costareports
    McDaniel ends speech, does not concede, “we’ll see you soon”

    Shorter McDaniel…”The South Will Rise Again!”

    @owillis 2m
    shorter mcdaniel: we just have to look at all the cochran voters, to make sure theyre the right col– er, party. right. party.

  185. 185.

    lamh36

    David Corn has been on fire all night.

    @DavidCornDC 45s
    Count only white votes? RT @ZekeJMiller McDaniel doesn’t concede. Sounds like he wants to challenge results. But how?

    @DavidCornDC 1m
    Poll test! MT @kasie McDaniel: Before this race is over we have to make absolutely certain the GOP primary was won by republican voters

  187. 187.

    GregB

    @lamh36:

    Irregularities, is that what they are calling Black people now?

    I think this whipsawing of the Republican Party may be causing some serious stress fractures.

  191. 191.

    Mike in NC

    Who really gives a flying shit about Mississippi, one of several of America’s assholes, to include Texas, Louisiana, South Carolina, and many others?

  192. 192.

    Getsmartin

    @Tommy: Not surprised by your impression of “beyond” NOLA ( which is an Oasis). These are the people who elected Jindal – and RE elected Vitter!

  193. 193.

    GregB

    McDaniel’s general election write-in catch phrase:

    Like a yeast infection, the South will rise again.

  194. 194.

    Tommy

    @GregB: I’ve said this a few times. My mom runs elections in her district. She is not a liberal. She calls me after every election in tears more individuals don’t vote. She doesn’t care the color of your skin. Your age. Heck your political ID. She just wants people to vote. Vote. Maybe why my parents who are not liberal raised a liberal son. Can I say it again. Vote.

  195. 195.

    Chickamin Slam

    Someone’s bemoaning on one of those blog sites monitored that “Thad Cochran is the Al Franken of the Republican Party”

  196. 196.

    Suzanne

    Once again, one of the many sons of Senator Flake behaved badly, and this time, there are twenty dead dogs. Even Joe Arpaio says this is shady.

    I’m a little sad that McDaniel lost. I sorta want to get to witness Peak Wingnut. I want to have something to tell my grandkids.

  197. 197.

    lamh36

    @ajjaffe 1m
    McDaniel’s campaign suggesting there may have been misconduct in Hinds County, w/large black population, where Cochran expanded lead.

  198. 198.

    Betty Cracker

    O/T: Does anyone know where I can stream Borgen? I could swear I recently heard it was available, but I can’t find it on Amazon or Netflix.

  199. 199.

    David Koch

    BWHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH

    Between this and McCarthy succeeding Cantor, we’ve had a nice reminder lately that nothing ever really changes #dontvote

    — @allahpundit

  202. 202.

    lamh36

    Who would have thunk a negative campaigner like McDaniel would be so ungraccious…oh…everyone…okay then.

    @TPM 39s
    Tea Partier McDaniel won’t concede: We must be sure “the Republican primary was won by Republican voters” http://bit.ly/1jMXR20

    ICYMI: @cspan 6m View translation
    VIDEO: Chris McDaniel (@CMForUSSenate) speech http://cs.pn/Tux8kg #mssen

  203. 203.

    David Koch

    Markos Moulitsas ‏@markos 17m

    #PleaseDont! MT @allahpundit: Between this and McCarthy succeeding Cantor, nice reminder that nothing ever really changes #dontvote

    *

    dka ‏@dka78 1h

    @baltimoresun @ltgovbrown @Hogan4Governor Going to the voting booths only legitimizes our corrupt system. #DontVote

    *

    Gmo4982 ‏@Gmo4982 8h

    Government is nothing but a gang of violent thugs. When you vote, you’re choosing in which direction the thugs point their guns. #DontVote

  205. 205.

    TooManyJens

    @lamh36:

    We must be sure “the Republican primary was won by Republican voters”

    I can’t wait to see how they try to do that. “Look at all these votes for Cochran in black districts! We all know black people aren’t Republicans!”

  206. 206.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    another GOP civil war…

    Amy Kremer @ AmyKremer
    If Cochran wins this #mssen race, the GOP is done. They teamed up with Dems to steal a race. Kiss the base goodbye.

    She’s a prominent Tea Bagger, I guess, maybe the one who was on Tweety the other night saying she wanted to cut waste and increase spending to balance the budget. Is there a race where a small number of Baggers staying home will have any real effect. Maybe GA, NC or KY? My inner Eeyore says they’ll fall in line by Labor Day. This war will mostly involve a lot of shouting on Morning JOe.

  207. 207.

    max

    @FlipYrWhig: I get that, but I feel like McDaniel is a true believer pod person like Ted Cruz, and I do not want someone like that anywhere near the sausage factory of government. He has that creepy College Republican / vacation Bible school affect that’s somehow both phony and all too real.

    Yeah. There is an excellent argument for encouraging the R’s to elect nuttier candidates, particularly in purple states. The odds that Childers could eke out a win possibly would have increased greatly… from nearly nil to very small. Set against six years of a guy who is not enough Sarah Palin and entirely too much Bull Conner.

    The part where they thought it was a real good idea of break into a old folks home and take pictures of a demented old lady to win a campaign strongly suggested entirely too much of the vilest kind of ratfucking for my taste.

    max
    [‘Already got one Ted Cruz, and he did in fact beat his Democratic opponent. So.’]

  209. 209.

    max

    @PhoenixRising: Does the FSM love us enough to provide a write-in campaign for McDaniel?

    Now *that* would REALLY improve Childers’ chances.

    max
    [‘Ya never know…’]

  210. 210.

    ⚽️ Martin

    This is an interesting conundrum the GOP is in. They argue that they are the rightful party for african americans to support because Lincoln, but as soon as an african american votes for a Republican they scream fraud.

    So which is it? I’ll note that the former is always carefully laid out in strategy documents and the latter in the heat of electoral battle. One is a more honest message from them.

  211. 211.

    Tommy

    @max: I live in a blue dog district. Our three decade Democrat house member retired. If the Republicans would have put up a semi-sane person they might have won the district. They put up this tea party loon. He got trounced.

  212. 212.

    Bubblegum Tate

    @GregB:

    Irregularities, is that what they are calling Black people now?

    Teabagger I know is trying to spin this as “successful conservative outreach to black voters.” His optimism is just precious, isn’t it?

  213. 213.

    max

    @Tommy: Our three decade Democrat house member retired. If the Republicans would have put up a semi-sane person they might have won the district. They put up this tea party loon. He got trounced.

    Ayup. Works like a charm.

    max
    [‘Unfortunately, that also meant that in the Deep South they were working themselves up to nominating Zombie Hitler (‘Vote for the Pure Conservative!’). Enh.’]

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