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And today's headlines: Thad Cochran mobilized black voters to beat back a Tea Party challenge

On Tuesday, yet another incumbent Republican senator beat back a Tea Party challenger, as Thad Cochran edged out a victory in a closely-fought runoff election in Mississippi, according to the Associated Press. Though state senator Chris McDaniel had tried to portray Cochran as out of touch with Tea Party conservatives, the 76-year old incumbent won just over 50 percent of the vote and is likely headed for a seventh Senate term.

McDaniel ran on a platform of fiscal conservatism, criticizing Cochran's long record of support of government spending projects and earmarks — but the incumbent argued that Mississippi needed help from the government, and didn't retreat from making that case in the runoff. Indeed, Cochran appealed for the votes of Democrats and African-Americans. According to RL Nave of the Jackson Free Press, Cochran's campaign emphasized "his support for historically black colleges and universities, the Jackson Medical Mall and Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, formerly called food stamps" in mailings to majority-black neighborhoods.

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Ermagawd, Those People!!!! Was there not enough poll watchers??? Don't people read idiot sites like Breitbart to know it was illegal for Dems to vote in a Rep primary....when it's really not ---- say what?

Thar be much tears in the tea this morning!
 
Who could have known the shill would be out today with a thread about this primary?

Does anyone recall any time the right got so interested in democrat primaries?

The one thing I'll say in this primary is that there were apparently a large percentage of individuals who voted in the democratic primary a week or so before. It shouldn't be hard for someone to match those people up and see how many of them voted in the republican one - which in LA is illegal.
 
More tea has been spilt:

James Lankford Beats T.W. Shannon In Oklahoma GOP Senate Primary

Rep. James Lankford defeated former Oklahoma Speaker of the House T.W. Shannon in the state GOP primary on Tuesday to replace retiring Sen. Tom Coburn (R), the Associated Press reports.

Shannon received endorsements from numerous high profile tea party figures like former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, as well as Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah).

Had he won the primary, Shannon would have likely been the first African American and Native American senator from the state.

Below, more from the Associated Press:

Two-term U.S. Rep. James Lankford emerged from a crowded primary field Tuesday to win the Republican nomination for Oklahoma's open U.S. Senate seat, avoiding a runoff despite a well-funded challenge from a tea party-backed candidate.


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OMG, whitey in Oklahoma just couldn't elect one of Them!
 
What is surprising is how afraid you've become of the Tea Party that you rush to post any possible victory that can be had against it.
 
I don't get people being against the Tea Party. Its principles are what America was founded upon and what made America a great country. US citizens are against that?

Adhering to Tea Party principles is the only hope America has of not declining into a Communist-like government and economy.

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Scataphagos said:
I don't get people being against the Tea Party. Its principles are what America was founded upon and what made America a great country. US citizens are against that?

Adhering to Tea Party principles is the only hope America has of not declining into a Communist-like government and economy.

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It's their inflexibility. Even American business can't put up with them. We have sales to make and we can't have a bunch of gooves (goofs?) shutting down government, or threatening to not pay the bills.
 
state Democratic Party chairman Rickey Cole said McDaniel should challenge the election results. “Clearly there was some sloppiness to say the least, and probably some failures to comply with the law,” Cole told Breitbart News.

Cole said the most likely error in favor of Cochran could be where Democrats who voted in the June 3 Democratic primary were allowed to vote in the GOP primary runoff on Tuesday. “That’d be the very first thing I’d look for,” Cole said. “And that’s the easiest error that poll workers can make—whether it was an honest error or deliberate, I wouldn’t know. But that’d be the most common error that happens in a runoff—where voters who weren’t qualified because they participated in the other party’s primary would be allowed to vote by mistake.”

Cole specifically noted the extensively high turnout in Hinds County, a predominantly Democratic area of inner-city Jackson where a key Cochran ally already accused of engaging in suspicious activity on Cochran’s behalf. “I’ve never seen a Republican primary with that many voters in it in Hinds County,” Cole said.

There were 24,889 votes cast in Hinds County in the runoff—17,927 were for Cochran and 6,962 were for McDaniel—but only 20,567 Republican voters are listed in Hinds County, according to the well-known Labels and Lists Voter Data Base. The extraordinarily high turnout in Hinds County is much more than what happened in Hinds County in the primary just a few weeks ago, when 16,640 total votes were cast—10,928 for Cochran and 5,621 for McDaniel.

Cole added that any and all illegal activity that may have happened should “absolutely” be prosecuted. “I would say that if my brother were involved, if anybody I know was involved,” Cole said. “If there was any illegality, then they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law—regardless of who it is or who it favors or who it disfavors. Integrity in our elections is paramount. If people don’t believe in elections, they won’t participate in the process—and that defeats the whole purpose of having elections. People have to trust the integrity of the process.”
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Wow, what a rarity - a democrat that believes in a fair electoral process! :)
 
So Coverbanality,

Which candidate do you suppose the Dems REALLY want to run against?

The bat-shit crazy TeaPartier, or the other guy, the one that has a good chance of getting elected? :D
 
Arnie said:
So Coverbanality,

Which candidate do you suppose the Dems REALLY want to run against?

The bat-shit crazy TeaPartier, or the other guy, the one that has a good chance of getting elected? :D
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Exactly! The rabid left is afraid that the Tea Party talking points are resonating, and they need to make sure that the candidate that runs against theirs is as flawed and has almost no distinction.
 
Tsing Tao said:
Exactly! The rabid left is afraid that the Tea Party talking points are resonating, and they need to make sure that the candidate that runs against theirs is as flawed and has almost no distinction.
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I'm sure you don't believe the US Chamber of Commerce is part of the "rabid left", yet something about the tea party has made them odd bedfellows.
 
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