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In their pre-election newsletter, Mississippi Right to Life included this chart on how they rate Congressional candidates from the four districts in Mississippi: As we mentioned in the past, the National Right to Life endorsed Democrats Gene Taylor and Travis Childers over the summer. The only challenger they endorsed in Mississippi was Bill Marcy, who…
Last Wednesday I said this: “We haven’t seen an endorsement from the Daily Journal yet, but I will save the suspense: they will also be backing Travis Childers.” The next day the paper formally backed Childers adding to his list of endorsements. In addition to the Daily Journal, Childers has also picked up the backing…
Here are what I believe will be the last set of ratings from whom I consider the best political handicappers in the business. The Rothenberg Political Report has MS-01 rated Tilt Republican (where it has been for months) and MS-04 a pure toss-up (which is a recent move in Steven Palazzo’s favor). Larry Sabato’s Crystal…
Gene Taylor is not a bad guy. Heck, he’s not all that bad of a Congressman if you judge his body of work through a narrow lens, which is exactly what his campaign wants you to do in this November 2nd election. But the future of South Mississippi and America are about something bigger than…
Friday night’s debate between Gene Taylor and Steven Palazzo has taken an interesting couple of turns this week, but we have the latest. The fact that anything got planned is a minor miracle. Taylor’s group wanted no studio audience, while Palazzo wanted a studio audience and for the debate to be unedited. The WKFK deal…
Each week, political analysts pay close attention to the independent expenditures from the national parties- especially the DCCC in this case. Simply put, it is as good of a barometer as anything on how they feel about a particular race. If they pull out a district, it is pretty tough to spin that as anything…
The Bill Marcy camp released their latest round of internal polling. The JMC Enterprises poll shows Bennie Thompson leading Bill Marcy by a slim 42-41 margin (certainly within the polls’ 4.5 percent margin of error). This mirrors a poll from a month ago, but with less undecided’s this time around. Before moving further, I’ll point…
After Gene Taylor disclosed that he voted for John McCain in 2008, the question then turned to whether he supported George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004. Taylor responded by saying, “I’m not being evasive. I just don’t remember.” Steven Palazzo’s camp wasn’t buying it, issuing this statement: “Taylor’s desperate attempts to make people forget…
Travis Childers can now claim two endorsements from a couple of the biggest newspapers in North Mississippi. So far, the Commercial Dispatch and the Commercial Appeal have sided with Childers re-election. I will admit I never heard anyone say they voted for a candidate because of their newspaper endorsements, but it is still one of…
Alan Lange has an excellent blog post examining the effort from many in the Mississippi Democratic Party to de-certify George Dale three years ago in retaliation for his support of George W. Bush in 2004. Initially successful, the Democrats finally lost in this attempt but the message rang loud and clear. They didn’t want members…