Will Jim Hood go Down?

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Concern troll is concerned.

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Leaning no because he's already won reelection in post-Obama MS.

Rahall and Barrow had already won reelection in a post-Obama environment, but they weren't able to win in a post-post-Obama environment

Mississippi elections are being held in "odd-numbered" years, therefore not coinciding with either midterms of presidential elections, which pretty much makes its excluded from nationwide political waves.

That's something to bear in mind..

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Again, Mississippi off-year elections are much less likely to be influenced by the national mood, whether unfavorable for Democrats or the opposite. So there's little point in making "post-Obama" and "post-post-Obama" cases like West Virginia or Georgia.

Naturally, Mississippi Democratic Party is not doing well, as her sister parties in other Deep South states, but it appears stronger than her counterparts in, let say, Alabama or Florida.

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Hood will be reelected. He should run for Senator in 2018.

And lose? What for? He, probably, wants to be undefeated in his political career. And 2018 will be a midterm year, we all know what usually happens there. Wicker is a solid conservative, but will not make McDaniel blunders.

Even with (unlikely) McDaniel blunders, it's still Mississippi we're talking about, not Missouri, not even Indiana, where such blunders made a difference.

There's a difference between running as Democrat for state office in Republican state, and running for Congress.