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"The Cochran campaign, through race-baiting, took us back 50 years."

—Chris McDaniel's campaign attorney Mitch Tyner, on racial messaging used in the Cochran-McDaniel senate election.

Why it Stinks: We're unsure if Tyner is confusing the Cochran campaign with himself, since he recently told reporters that Democrats who voted in the Republican runoff—the ones the Cochran campaign engaged to help him win—"diluted the vote." In other words, black Democrats who helped Cochran win the election somehow tainted the results. Cochran and, by extension, his agents like Bishop Ronnie Crudup have less-than-clean hands when it comes to race-baiting. Still, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.