{"id":13242,"date":"2014-07-16T01:06:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T08:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13242"},"modified":"2014-07-16T01:06:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T08:06:17","slug":"blacks-beat-the-bagger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/blacks-beat-the-bagger\/","title":{"rendered":"Blacks Beat the Bagger"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is now sufficient evidence that shows that mostly black Democratic voters, who voted in Mississippi\u2019s Republican primary allowed Thad \u201cFarmyard Fun\u201d Cochran (R-MS) to defeat Chris \u201cBagger\u201d McDaniel.  The InsaniTEA and Theocon wings of the party are screaming bloody murder, saying that only Republican votes should have counted.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"SenateNewly released data of the Mississippi runoff for U.S. Senate between Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) and state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) reinforce the claim that Cochran won through a surge of votes from African-Americans and Democrats.<\/p>\n

Since the runoff McDaniel and his supporters have complained that McDaniel actually won the Republican vote in the runoff and Cochran was only the winner through getting African Americans and Democrats to vote for him. <\/p>\n

As The New York Times’ Upshot blog notes<\/a>, Cochran won 92 percent of the votes in the precincts that are Democratic strongholds. President Barack Obama won 99 percent of the vote in those precincts in 2012. Cochran won those precincts by 3,889 votes, or more than half of his margin of victory in the runoff over all. With those votes, Democratic votes in other parts of the state could have cleanly brought Cochran over the finish line in the runoff, even with Republican voters in those precincts going for McDaniel. <\/p>\n

An important data point to keep in mind also is that in historically Democratic-dominant places like Hinds County, one of the most densely populated counties in Mississippi, turnout wasn’t especially large (7.4 percent of the 2012 general election numbers) \u2014 but with runoff voters going 92 to 8 for Cochran, it would be enough to move the race in Cochran’s favor\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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McDaniel’s complaint appears to have  some merit.  It doesn\u2019t make a whole lot of sense to have an open primary, until you understand it\u2019s true purpose.  Historically, before Republicans sowed the wind by embracing hate-filled TEAbuggery, Republican primaries have featured an uncontested or barely contested candidate, while Democratic primaries have often been more hotly contested.  In states with open primaries, Republican voters have crossed the line for years to ensure that the least worthy candidate becomes the Democratic nominee.  In some states the Democratic nominee is nothing more than a Republican plant, such as Alvin Green in SC in 2010.  Republicans have been trying for years to get Oregon to adopt an open primary without success.  <\/font><\/p>\n

So what we have here is nothing more that an old Republican dirty trick at work.  That it is causing Republicans grief could not be more appropriate.<\/font><\/p>\n

Anyway, now we know how to keep Thad Cochran off the Senate floor.  Just put a \"Black  in the Senate cloak room.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is now sufficient evidence that shows that mostly black Democratic voters, who voted in Mississippi\u2019s Republican primary allowed Thad \u201cFarmyard Fun\u201d Cochran (R-MS) to defeat Chris \u201cBagger\u201d McDaniel.  The InsaniTEA and Theocon wings of the party are screaming bloody murder, saying that only Republican votes should have counted. Newly released data of the Mississippi […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}