AP: Childers wins 1st District for Democrats

[brooklynite]

Source: Clarion-Ledger

Democrat Travis Childers has defeated Republican Greg Davis in the runoff for the District 1 congressional seat, The Associated Press has projected.

With 80 percent of precincts reporting, Childers leads Davis 51 to 49 percent.

Read more: http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080513/NEWS/80513035&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

[rurallib]

1. happy dance

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :beer:

[NoodleBoy]

2. w00t

now hopefully he'll add a few more shades of blue to that district and state.

[usaftmo]

40. Absolutely!

Things are so red in this state, I thought communism took over!

"we can support the troops without supporting the President" Trent Lott
- So true! Of course, Lott said that while The Big Dog was in office...but that saying applies now.

[Endangered Specie]

3. The Republican Revolution is about to be silenced.

[lisa58]

4. YES!

[myrna minx]

5. K&R. This is fantastic news. n/t

[panAmerican]

6. Woo-hoo! Kicking some red a$$!!!!!

[crimsonblue]

7. looks like the Obama connections are working just as planned.. mwaha mwhaha

mwahahahaha. I bet the NRCC is stoked.

[Robbien]

8. Aw poor Dick Cheney. To lose after all the trouble he went through

At his fundraiser Darth said: "What we need in Washington is a strong conservative congressman from Mississippi, not another Democrat going to bat for Nancy Pelosi"


:BigGrin:

[Mz Pip]

18. Why the Republicans

would bring in someone who is polling at 19% on a good day to boost their turnout is beyond me.

The must be beyond delusional.

[BR_Parkway]

41. Who do they have polling any higher they could bring in? It's down

to the mad-hatters - the rest of us are sick of this shit (some of us have been for a long while now).

[rpannier]

27. Gotta feel badly for elmer

I mean, having to get out of his coffin, leave his cave and fly down to MS to campaign.

And then lose.

All I can say is... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! HA HA HARDY HAR HAR!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[Lasher]

54. I knew they had made a big mistake when they sent Lord Vader in.

I mean, isn't he the most unpopular person who has ever lived?

[FVZA_Colonel]

64. I think syphilis out-polled him at one point.

So with the exception of Hitler, I'd say yes.

[OmahaBlueDog]

9. I'll believe it when 100% are counted, but DAMN this is sweet!

I believe I have read that the House Republicans were supposed to have a "come to Jesus" meeting if this seat was lost. I believe that this loss, if it remains a loss, is widely believed to portend disaster in the coming months.

[Doctor_J]

10. True. MS is right next to Siegelman's AL

the votes could be re-counted at 3:00 AM and the race given to the fascist.

[ejbr]

11. yippee kiyay mutha f&cka!!!! n/t

[downindixie]

12. uh! wait a minute

what kind of voting machines do they use down there? Who is in charge of the tabulators?

[santamargarita]

13. The KKK only counts votes after midnight!

If this is true - that's 3 wins in right-wing districts.

[sofa king]

14. That's too damned close. They're gonna steal it.

Just wait until tomorrow morning and let's see if it still goes our way.

[OmahaBlueDog]

15. It's up to 6% now with about 93% counted

[sofa king]

45. Well slap my ass and call me Sally.

My cynicism, while undoubtedly in the right place, is a little short-sighted. Davis promises to be back in November.

As usual, I'm quite pleased to be wrong... again. Someone could get rich betting against my predictions. I'd stop making them if they didn't provide me with such perverse amusement down the road.

[Ken Burch]

16. Great. And the best part is, this proves linking a candidate to Obama doesn't hurt that candidate.

Even in Missifreakinssippi.

Great news all around.

[Barack_America]

17. Discussion of the same title from the *other* site.

I normally don't, but I couldn't help indulging tonight.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015603/posts

[NM Independent]

39. Thanks for posting that link

That was a real treat seeing the absolute devastation, disappointment, and temper tantrums that were posted over there.

Here's a real gem...

"To: Alter Kaker
it’s seriously time to think of a contingency plan should Obama win with a filibuster proof Congress. Maybe the military should step in and have VP Cheney as head of government. As someone said, the Consitution is not a suicide pact.



180 posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:17:23 PM by balch3"

What was that Dick? You shouldn't be posting on "the internets."

It's TOTAL PANIC, but I knew there were people on that side thinking about this treasonous BS.

[Mike Daniels]

46. Appears the mods weren't too keen on that comment as it's been deleted

#181 has been 86'ed as well so I wonder what little germ of wisdom that one contained.

[NM Independent]

62. It's a cover up...

:tinfoilhat:

[KamaAina]

55. The "Consitution"? Is that written in our "offical" language?

:dunce:

[LSK]

49. "Can anything be done to keep Bush from speaking at the Republican National Convention this year?"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[pnorman]

19. Just spotted over at Freek Republic:

"Can anything be done to keep Bush from speaking at the Republican National Convention this year?": http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015603/posts

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

pnorman

[JohnnyCougar]

37. LOL. Here's another one:

I really wish I drank alcohol, because I could really use some right now.

49 posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:59:19 PM by Clintonfatigued (Karl Marx supported free trade. Does that make him a free market conservative?)

[KSinTX]

20. Keep on rollin' Dems

:kick:

[OmahaBlueDog]

21. With tonight's result in mind, take a look at these articles from earlier in the week

"The stakes in the 1st District special election couldn't be higher, strategically or symbolically. The loss of a traditionally GOP seat to a Democrat would be the third in a special election this spring and the second in the Deep South after the May 3 victory of Rep. Don Cazayoux (D-La.).

Rank-and-file Republicans say that would force a day of reckoning for their leadership.

"When you connect three dots in anything, that's a bad thing. This connects the dots. At that point, everybody's got to come together and have a come-to-Jesus meeting," said Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), a retiring centrist who will help form a new advisory panel at the National Republican Congressional Committee."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x358514

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/10/AR2008051002441_pf.html


"The dark clouds hovering over House Republicans hold one silver lining for Minority Leader John A. Boehner, GOP Whip Roy Blunt and National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole: Expectations for November are now set so low that a loss of fewer than 10 seats could be seen as a sort of victory.

But if Republican losses break into the double digits, the three leaders could find it hard to hold on to their jobs, and rank and file members could throw their support behind a new generation of members — reformers who say their party should be making dramatic changes to prove to voters that it has learned the lessons that cost it the majority in 2006."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10140.html

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

22. May you live in interesting times...

Looks like that wish is coming true.

Strange days, indeed....

[Elidor]

23. This actually is hugh!!1

Josh Marshall says: "Late Update: Scratch that. With 99% in, it's an 8 point spread. Not even close."

Mississippi! Woot! You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Out with the pigs.

[williesgirl]

24. Dem won by 8 points w/100% reporting. Great news. rec'd

[mzmolly]

25. Dean's 50 state strategy

vindicated once again?

[Zambero]

26. Their heavy-handed Swiftboat ads were ineffective

Just as in the Louisiana special congressional election -- they attempted to morph the Democratic candidate into Obama and Rev. Wright. These failures might prompt the GOP to start running positive campaigns, but then again that would be impossible since they have no positive accomplishments or vision to speak of.

[DinahMoeHum]

28. Don't forget: Ronnie Musgrove (D) is running for Trent Lott's old seat, too.

If the former Mississippi governor wins the Senate seat - Mississippi could turn purplish blue, which means SERIOUS inroads for the Democrats in the "Deep South". Yet another benefit of Howard Dean's 50-State Strategy.

Who among us remembers the ridicule Dr. Dean drew from Paul Begala after he announced his strategy and said that badly needed $$$ and trained staff would rebuild the Mississippi Democratic Party?
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/11/sitroom.01.html
(snip)
BLITZER: Very quickly, is Howard Dean in trouble?

BEGALA: No. I think Candy's report was spot on.

He -- yes, he's in trouble, in that campaign managers, candidates, are really angry with him. He has raised $74 million and spent $64 million. He says it's a long-term strategy. But what he has spent it on, apparently, is just hiring a bunch of staff people to wander around Utah and Mississippi and pick their nose. That's not how you build a party. You win elections. That's how you build a party.
(snip)
:kick:
Well, Dean's insistence on rebuilding the Party in states long neglected, like Mississippi and Nebraska, is bearing fruit:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-dean1-2008may01,0,3690828.story
(snip)
The investment, Dean and his supporters say, has already paid off. In Nebraska, for instance, the Democrats gained three legislative seats in 2006 and several local offices. In Mississippi, where the party hadn't trained a precinct captain in a decade, the Democrats captured the Senate in 2007 and solidified control of the House. "I can't say enough good things about the job he's done," Mississippi Democratic Chairman Wayne Dowdy said of Dean.
(snip)

:kick::kick::kick:

Yep, it's finally gonna be great to be a Democrat - and it's gonna suck BIG TIME to be a Republikkkan for years to come.

:kick::kick::kick:

[calimary]

33. Let's hope so!

How I love the smell of republi-CONS self-immolating in the morning. When some of 'em wake up and read the tea leaves about a third consecutive loss in Congressional special elections - as our friend tom davis would say, that's connecting the dots alright.

:toast:

[rpannier]

36. I remember that very well

If this is what nose picking accomplishes, we should have been picking a long time ago.

[juno jones]

29. K&R!

[New Dawn]

30. K&R

[ekwhite]

31. Excellent!

Another Republican seat picked up for the Democratic Party!!! :bounce: :party: :party: :bounce:

[jzodda]

32. My Favorite Quote from Freeper Land

I love that thread! Its great to read the despair of those nuts!

Post 49

"I really wish I drank alcohol, because I could really use some right now."

HAHAHA! :D

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015603/posts?q=1&;page=1#1

[Sunnyshine]

34. K&R- Its Unbelievable baby! Repubs are getting sick nervous. n/t

[jtrockville]

44. They should be relieved.

They're in the process of being saved from their own ineptitude.

[rpannier]

35. Interesting note on the election

Unless I missed something, Childress won all but 4 counties.

He got stomped in the the two largest counties, but he won nonetheless.

That's a good sign.

on edit: (the report by county)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2008/by_county/MS_Page_0513.html?SITE=MSJADELN&SECTION=POLITICS

[Zachstar]

38. Great news!

[many a good man]

42. LOL

Love this graphic one of them posted

[Vinca]

43. Wow! That's huge! nt

[DainBramaged]

47. A sure sign of things to come

[LSK]

48. K&R

[jpak]

50. Obama not so much a Dem Liability in Republic Mississippi

:evilgrin:

[debbierlus]

51. Dean's 50 state strategy is working

Great news.

Republicans must be shitting bricks (that would be a GREAT smiley)!

[sasquatch]

52. EAT IT YOU RACIST FUCKS!!

And stay down!:woohoo:

[CaptJasHook]

53. The only down side

is that they had to find a Pro-Life, Pro-Gun Democrat. Sigh. But at least he will vote Dem on some issues or at least DLC style.

[Zambero]

61. He's as liberal as one can be...

and still get elected in that part of the country. From a practicality standpoint, I have no problem with that. And Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is no doubt beside himself right now (hee-hee!). It's the Joe Lieberman type pro-Bush DINO that somehow manages to get re-elected from a seemingly "progressive" state -- Now THAT defines the ultimate downer for me.

[happygoluckytoyou]

56. GOP.... PARTY FOR THE NEW CENTURY...... (THEY WON'T BE SEEN UNTIL 2100)

JOHN "THE REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN..... HIS HANDLERS HATE TO SEE HIS NAME AND PARTY ON THE SAME LINE
JOHN "THE REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN..... HIS HANDLERS HATE TO SEE HIS NAME AND PARTY ON THE SAME LINE
JOHN "THE REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN..... HIS HANDLERS HATE TO SEE HIS NAME AND PARTY ON THE SAME LINE
JOHN "THE REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN..... HIS HANDLERS HATE TO SEE HIS NAME AND PARTY ON THE SAME LINE
JOHN "THE REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN..... HIS HANDLERS HATE TO SEE HIS NAME AND PARTY ON THE SAME LINE

[mike_c]

57. not sure I understand all the celebration....

Unless I'm mistaken Childers is a DINO among DINOs. Is that not correct? He opposes womens' rights, opposes gun control, supports the war against Iraq, and so on. Who is this a victory for?

[happygoluckytoyou]

58. in MISSISSIPPI..... any dem is a win..... some areas need a centrist others a liberal

[mike_c]

59. I think "centrist" is overly kind if what I've heard about Childers is correct....

Mind you, I live in the west so I certainly haven't followed that race closely. But what I've heard makes me want to run away for Childers as fast as I can. I'm shocked to see so much celebration about this. Sure, a "democrat" won, but he doesn't sound like someone I'd want in office anywhere.

[kentj44]

60. you cannot understand how

us democrats in mississippi feel and the word is that if the house seat fell the senate seat will fall in nov.and get this 30% of the registered voters are black which means that obama would need 21% of the white vote to carry the state.what an exciting time to live in mississippi.

[philly_bob]

63. Yahoo! Imagine panic at Halliburton, DOJ, White House, etc.

Third straight Democratic special election win in predominantly Republican district.

(P.S. Proud to say, I donated to Childers.)