The Bell Tolls For Thee, GOP

[maddezmom]

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on the special Congressional election in Mississippi, the results are complete, Democrat Travis Childers defeated Republican Greg Davis by a 54% to 46% margin last night.

As I mentioned yesterday, the Republicans old tactics of screaming "liberal" and trying to tie Childers to Barack Obama didn’t work. In fact the association with Obama had just the opposite effect, it increased the turnout of black voters and assured Davis’ defeat. Back to the drawing board GOP.

As an example of Republican thinking, they brought in Dick Cheney and Trent Lott to make last-minute pitches for Davis. What was the result of those endorsements? Turnout in heavily Republican precincts was down. More brilliant strategy. For more details on spending and campaign tactics read this at Swing State (thanks eljefebob).

Tom Cole, head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, couldn’t spin this one away, issuing this statement:

"We are disappointed in tonight’s election results. Though the NRCC, RNC and Mississippi Republicans made a major effort to retain this seat, we came up short."

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[NJmaverick]

1. Obama going to have long coat tails in Nov

This is what our Country needs to undo the damage done, over the last 8 years, by Georeg Bush and the repukes.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Maybe the Dems could hire a Cheney lookalike

to come & campaign for Republican candidates in other states.

[mod mom]

3. From Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells":

III

Hear the loud alarum bells -
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor
Now -now to sit or never,
By the side of the pale-faced moon.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear it fully knows,
By the twanging
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows;
Yet the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells -
Of the bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells -
In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!

[Botany]

4. It is going to bloody for the repugs this fall

The breeder where I have got my lab from ... a big time repug
told me last month "bush is a fucking idiot and I will never vote
for a republican again. We have to change the direction of this
country and Obama will show the world we have grown up."

BTW she has a signed picture of Reagan on her desk.

[Doctor_J]

5. I predicted in another thread yesterday that the NRCC would quietly

ask * to go completely dark soon. McSame seems to love having him around his neck, but the not-so-stupid ones are going to need to pull the plug to avoid complete disaster the November.