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Entries for June, 2014

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Childers Comes Out Swinging Vs. Cochran

Verbatim statement from the Travis Childers campaign: "One thing is clear tonight; Senator Cochran does not have the confidence of his state, let alone his own party. The majority of Republicans voted for change in Washington. And if we are going to change Washington, we will need to change who ...

Chism Strategies Poll: McDaniel Leads Likely GOP Voters By 8 Points

Verbatim release from Chism Strategies: Last night we conducted the final track of our MS Senate GOP runoff surveys. We surveyed 697 voters statewide. The MOE was +/- 3.8%. The survey was restricted to voters from the GOP primary on June 3rd. It does not include potential voters who did ...

Hendrix and Sweet Head to Ward 6 Runoff

Tyrone Hendrix and Dennis Sweet IV will be heading for the Ward 6 City Council Election, which is scheduled for July 1. In yesterday's election, Hendrix came out on top with 546 votes. Sweet was only nine votes behind with 537 votes total. Rashaad Crisler came in third place with ...

Study: Miss., the South Most Corrupt in Nation

Mississippi may be in the midst of the nation's slimiest political contest, the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. Now, a new study purports that Mississippi is indeed the crookedest state in the union. Researchers at Indiana University and University of Hong Kong "studied more than 25,000 convictions of public officials ...

Ron Paul Backs Chris McDaniel for #mssen

The campaign of state Sen. Chris McDaniel issued the following statement about McDaniel's latest high-profile endorsement for U.S. Senate: Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Mississippi today announced he received the endorsement of former U.S. House Representative and presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul. "Ron Paul has been an inspiration to ...

On apathy and not giving a damn: My new column in The Guardian on Senate race

I've been asked a couple times recently by national media to comment on the Senate race between Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel (and, oh, Travis Childers). I begged out of an MSNBC request a couple weeks ago because I just couldn't get excited to talk about it. But when The ...