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The important election victory today didn't belong to Hillary in the West Virginia primary, but to Travis Childers in Mississippi's first Congressional district. Childers, a Democrat running in a deep-red GOP district (it went for Bush 62-38 in 2004), faced an opponent who ran ads linking Childers to Barak Obama, had Dick Cheney and Gov. Haley Barbour campaigning for him, and even used autodialer messages from Laura Bush. Childers crushed him, 54-46.
This is the third special election in just a couple of months in which the GOP has failed to hold a seat in a deep-red district (the other two were in Louisiana and Illinois), and the second one in which attempting to invoke Obama as some kind of bogeyman hasn't worked at all.
In other words, this is really bad news for the GOP.
Rest of story at http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g...yK9cwD90L6CP02
This is the third special election in just a couple of months in which the GOP has failed to hold a seat in a deep-red district (the other two were in Louisiana and Illinois), and the second one in which attempting to invoke Obama as some kind of bogeyman hasn't worked at all.
In other words, this is really bad news for the GOP.
Miss. Democrat wins House seat in special election
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS – 1 hour ago
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Democrat Travis Childers won a special election to Congress on Tuesday, helping his party to a third victory in recent months for seats long in Republican hands.
The victory puts Childers into the seat vacated by Roger Wicker, a Republican appointed to the U.S. Senate when Trent Lott resigned. The win also pushes the Democrats to a 236-199 majority in Congress — if only for a few months until November's general elections.
With all precincts reporting, Childers had 54 percent to Republican Greg Davis' 46 percent.
Earlier this year, Democrats captured the Illinois district long represented by former Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert, who resigned from Congress, then earlier this month, claimed a seat in Louisiana that Republican Rep. Richard Baker left.
Marty Wiseman, a political scientist at Mississippi State University, said if Democrats can carry districts that traditionally have been safe bets for the GOP, "Republican strategists have to be terrified."
"If you think about the House and the Senate ... and the number of Republican Senate seats that are exposed, this could turn into something bigger than the presidential race this fall," Wiseman said Tuesday night.
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By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS – 1 hour ago
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Democrat Travis Childers won a special election to Congress on Tuesday, helping his party to a third victory in recent months for seats long in Republican hands.
The victory puts Childers into the seat vacated by Roger Wicker, a Republican appointed to the U.S. Senate when Trent Lott resigned. The win also pushes the Democrats to a 236-199 majority in Congress — if only for a few months until November's general elections.
With all precincts reporting, Childers had 54 percent to Republican Greg Davis' 46 percent.
Earlier this year, Democrats captured the Illinois district long represented by former Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert, who resigned from Congress, then earlier this month, claimed a seat in Louisiana that Republican Rep. Richard Baker left.
Marty Wiseman, a political scientist at Mississippi State University, said if Democrats can carry districts that traditionally have been safe bets for the GOP, "Republican strategists have to be terrified."
"If you think about the House and the Senate ... and the number of Republican Senate seats that are exposed, this could turn into something bigger than the presidential race this fall," Wiseman said Tuesday night.
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So true. They could use CG technology to produced a photo that morphs FDR, Truman, and JFK! 
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