Just for fun:
If you reset the black vote in this poll to 20% Cochran, 65% Childers, 15% Undecided (which would still be an unbelievably poor showing for Childers if that's what it looks like on Election Day), it becomes 34-34 dead heat with 28% undecided.
This may explain why Childers has gone on the stump for Obamacare. He's trying to bring the black vote back into his column and then hope McDaniel does the rest of the work for him.
Do you believe Childers has any serious chance at winning?
I cannot see McDaniel voters casting a ballot for a Democrat. I just can't.
Cochran will almost certainly win. Childers' chances are on the order of Gillespie's or Bellows' at best. The only way Childers could win is if the McDanielites make good on their threat not to vote for Cochran, either by staying home, voting for O'Hara, or voting Childers. Surely they won't, but you just can't put anything past those loons.
There's nothing Childers can do to encourage this, I don't think. It's entirely out of his hands.
However, even if that were to happen, Childers would still lose unless he gets the typical black showing for a Mississippi Democrat. That's why I speculate Childers is going after the Republicans for not expanding Medicaid. He's got to get the black vote back in his column
just in case the Tea Party decides to spitefully burn the house down.
