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« on: November 11, 2012, 02:19:16 AM » |
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The only hope the Democrats have for winning elections in Mississippi outside of local offices and their one VRA-protected congressional district is if the Tea Party takes over the state GOP. Mississippi is a poor state and even its conservative Republicans always make sure to send some pork down home. Thad Cochran is basically the Robert Byrd of the Gulf Coast.
If through some bizarre chain of events they sent a bunch of "true believers" to Congress who actually drank the FreedomWorks Kool Aid and didn't send a dime of federal money back to Mississippi, the Democrats might actually have a shot. When talking to black voters, they'd talk about all the local programs that were being neglected; when talking to white voters, they'd talk about how "Mississippi's hard-earned taxpayer dollars are being used to pay for handouts to folks in New Jersey and California" (not really true but it gets the blood boiling).
It'd be nice to see Ray Mabus back in state government there.
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