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MS-01 Redux

Posted by DAVID SCHRAUB, Assistant Editor in At TMV.
May 13th, 2008 | Comments

Last time I reported on election results in the 1st Mississippi Congressional District, it was competing with the Pennsylvania Primary. The race went into a run-off, and today it competes for attention with the West Virginia Primary — which Clinton won handily to no effect whatsoever.

Just to review: the Mississippi 1st is one of the reddest districts in the country — even more than the Louisiana 6th where Democrats scored an upset victory to flip a seat a few weeks back. In the first election, Democratic candidate Travis Childers came within a few hundred votes of winning outright over Republican Jeff Davis. The run-off is today, results being posted here. The counties to watch are DeSoto (Davis’ base) and Prentiss (Childers’ base).

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The race is over, Childers wins by 8 percentage points — a landslide for a Democrat in this district. Republicans better watch their backs. If they’re not safe here, they’re not safe anywhere.

461/462 Precincts Reporting
Childers (D) — 56,982 (54%)
Davis (R) — 49,285 (46%)

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Around 65% of precincts in, and Childers has the lead. Over two thirds of DeSoto has come in, Prentiss still hasn’t reported, and Childers is running ahead of his last outing. Good signs for the Democrats.

304/462 Precincts reporting:
Childers (D) — 35,140 (52%)
Davis (R) — 32,185 (48%)

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153/462 Precincts reporting:
Childers — 15,570 (53%)
Davis — 13,670 (47%)

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SteveK

Mississippi - U.S. House - District 1 - General

Dem whoops Rep in one very 'Red' State...

With 430 of 462 precincts reporting the Clarion-Ledger declares Democrat T. Childers winner with 54,029 votes (53%) compared to Republican G. Davis with 47,361 votes (47%)

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/20...

'The Perfect Storm' is brewing for the Republicans this year and all they seem able to talk about is Clinton and Obama... Maybe that's why the storm is coming.

superdestroyer

I always thought that the Repubicans were become irrelevant when the changing demographics of the U.S. would overwhelm white voters. Then I thought that that the Bush Administration's failures would sped up the process.

Now we are seeing a political party that is working very hard to make itself irrelevant. and it could happen as soon as November 2008.

I wonder when the political pundits catch up to the political trends of the U.S and start writing about the collapse of the Republicans and the fact that the U.S. is a one party state.

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