Almost half of Mississippi Republican voters polled said interracial marriage should be illegal

[Stuckinthebush]

83. I've been fighting for years

I have been part of the Alabama Democratic Party inside and outside. I have seen the shift and how it was accomplished. We have blue pockets in the State but those are diminishing. The Alabama GOP has been masterful in restricting who votes and, as a result, even those blue pockets are getting smaller and smaller.

I have seen Democratic candidates become de facto Republicans to win. I have worked with campaigns in identifying likely voters in the counties and congressional districts. Over the years the Dem numbers are shrinking - especially as redistricting has shifted lines to dilute the Democratic vote.

Can I say that Alabama is forever Republican? No, of course not. But it will be a very long time before it becomes a swing state - much less a blue state.

I was talking to an old colleague the other day who is a grizzled veteran of Democratic campaigns as a strategist. She even said, "What's the point? Let's focus on local races and judicial races and not even think about state-wide or federal."

I voted this morning at 9 am. I was the first Democrat to vote and I am in one of those swing islands in the state.

Just tired...so tired.