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[Oblivion]

Actually, came across this, which is funny considering how Carson shot up to conservative stardom:

Yeah, I remember seeing a video of that one on the youtubes.

 

[benjipwns]

That's because Republicans pander to what big business want

True. But there are exceptions within the party like immigration reform. (And health insurance reform and raising the minimum wage.)

short-term profits at the expense of our nation's long-term health....I don't think knowing what business wants and how best to improve our economy in the future is mutually exclusive. Frankly, it seems a lot more different than similar.

They are, knowledge about the present is possible, knowledge about the future isn't.

Any large enough organization almost always operates in the interests of short-term profits at the expense of likely long term health because all the incentives and knowledge exist only for the former. Big business and government being two perfect examples.

 

[PhoenixDark]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/481592793156964353
jeez. I doubt Thad is a model citizen on race relations but he's better than that at least, and more importantly he's better than this tea party POS. Even if McDaniel gives dems a 10% chance of winning, the mere fact that that he'd be a senate candidate would disgust me too much. Fuck him.

also, LBJ displaying his non-racist qualities for dax.

 

[RustyNails]

 

[Aaron Strife]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/481592793156964353
jeez. I doubt Thad is a model citizen on race relations but he's better than that at least, and more importantly he's better than this tea party POS. Even if McDaniel gives dems a 10% chance of winning, the mere fact that that he'd be a senate candidate would disgust me too much. Fuck him.

also, LBJ displaying his non-racist qualities for dax.

Thad Cochran would be much better for African-Americans in MS. But Travis Childers would be about a thousand times more.

As despicable as McDaniel's stunt is, it's pretty shitty how Cochran all of a sudden wanted to reach out to black voters, because his white Republican base rejected him for not being a big enough dickhead. If he wants Democrats to support him, he should be a Democrat. Not slip by as a Republican and continue to block every major Dem initiative.

 

[speculawyer]

This is so fucking awkward.

But at least they are making an effort, I guess.

 

[Aaron Strife]

Cochran's doing great. Good for MS I guess.

 

[PhoenixDark]

@Nate_Cohn

In the handful of completed counties, turnout is up by about 40% in black areas, but less in white areas

mwuahahaha

My twitter feed is full of conservatives arguing that McDaniel is going to get an onslaught of votes soon though. We'll see. This doesn't sound good:

‏@Shaftan 2m

ALCORN COUNTY flips from Cochran to McDaniel! #MSSen

Big, white county that was close during the original primary. McDaniel targeted it hard during the last few weeks.

edit:
@Redistrict 3m

Turnout up 61.9% (!) in heavily black Humphreys Co., Cochran winning w/ 79%. Up 61.2% in nearby Sharkey Co, Cochran at 82%. #MSSEN

 

[KingGondo]

Pleasantly surprised to see that the OK Senate race avoided a runoff.

Lankford sucks immensely, but Shannon is terrifying.

On a coincidental note, Lankford must not have been too worried about the result. I saw him wandering around the mall alone last night.

 

[RustyNails]

Happy that MS is holding on.

 

[benjipwns]

So much for that Tancredo comeback:

Former Rep. Bob Beauprez has won the four-way Republican primary in Colorado to challenge Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, The Associated Press reports.

Beauprez was the GOP's 2006 nominee for governor. He prevailed over Tom Tancredo, another former congressman, whom national Republicans worried could hurt their candidates in congressional races. Hickenlooper is favored to win the governor's race in November.

With 70 percent of precincts reporting, Beauprez led Tancredo, 31 percent to 26 percent. Secretary of State Scott Gessler was at 23 percent, and former state Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp was at 19 percent.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Lol MS

 

[PhoenixDark]

Lol MS

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewi...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

[Lemonz]

http://www.clarionledger.com/longform/news/politics/2014/06/24/election-results-gop-runoff/11330947/


92.6% reporting

Thad Cochran (Incumbent)
50.8% 159,885

Chris McDaniel
49.2% 155,072

 

[benjipwns]

Just found out there's a Yazoo County and...

It is named for the Yazoo River, whose name, legend has it, comes from an Indian word meaning "River of Death."

noice

 

[NYCmetsfan]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewi...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Its so close the dems really could have swung it if the 1000 vote holds

 

[benjipwns]

The county with no results, Holmes is 83% black.

Holmes County has the lowest life expectancy of any county in the United States, either for men or women

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Dems intimidating scared white voters

 

[Oblivion]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewi...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

What does he mean by that?

 

[benjipwns]

It's going to be real tight looking at the first primary results for the outstanding counties.

You've got two split counties, one that went heavy for Cochran, one that went heavy for McDaniel and one that McDaniel has flipped so far from 51-48 to 56-44.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Lol at republicans blaming 'race baiting' for Cochran's win

 

[benjipwns]

Two of the heavily black counties they were looking at went like this:
Jefferson:
Cochran - 55.3% - 121
McDaniel - 43.4% - 95
to
Cochran - 74.3% - 321
McDaniel - 25.7% - 111

Claiborne:
Cochran - 59.0% - 161
McDaniel - 41.0% - 112
to
Cochran - 72.5% - 295
McDaniel - 27.5% - 112

So definitely a few crossovers.

 

[PhoenixDark]

@costareports 3m

95% in, McDaniel 5k behind, his supporters have long faces, hands on faces, arms around shoulders

haha

 

[thepotatoman]

So much for that Tancredo comeback:

Beauprez is the guy that speculated if Obama is pushing the bounderies of civil war, and was one of the guys speculating that Obama maybe wasn't a US citizen because he just doesn't seem American.

It's funny how republican primary voters treat colorado like a deep red state instead of a swing state. They'd really be doing a lot better here if they just moderated a little bit.

 

[benjipwns]

Holmes, the other heavily black county came in:
Cochran - 58.4% - 365
McDaniel - 41.1% - 257
to
Cochran - 69.3% - 668
McDaniel - 30.7% - 296

 

[PhoenixDark]

NY Times, 1984

He has supported HBCU funding for decades apparently. Didn't know that, but it makes sense. Blacks make up 37% of the vote in MS now.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

NY Times, 1984

He has supported HBCU funding for decades apparently. Didn't know that, but it makes sense. Blacks make up 37% of the vote in MS now.

How much in a GOP primary?

 

[Diablos]

McDaniel legitimately creeps me out, he's a bit of cross between a shady businessman and evil comic book villain. I hope he loses.

 

[bodyofanamerican]

Well, the AP just called it for Cochran.

 

[Axelhortsemchi]

How much in a GOP primary?

Mississippi's an open primary state, and anyone who didn't vote in the Democrat primary a few weeks ago can vote in this one. I don't have an actual percent, but enough to potentially make a difference.

 

[Joe Molotov]

NY Times, 1984

He has supported HBCU funding for decades apparently. Didn't know that, but it makes sense. Blacks make up 37% of the vote in MS now.

Only if they can get to the polling places.

 

[kehs]

I really hate how stupid stewart/colbert are about tech. The overall idea that they're incompetent is right, but when they drill down...no.

150 megs = 5 pictures? the fuck .

 

[Diablos]

I really hate how stupid stewart/colbert are about tech. The overall idea that they're incompetent is right, but when they drill down...no.

150 megs = 5 pictures? the fuck .

What compelled them to talk about that?

 

[kehs]

What compelled them to talk about that?

Today's hearing, where they asked how the hard drives were destroyed....ergo you can get a USB drive for like 5 bucks.

Like...just no.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Glad to see the new black panther party is alive and well down in MS

#tcot #RIPfreedom

 

[Chumly]

LOL at Mississippi. The bitter tea party tears are going to be delicious for the next month.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Setting my DVR for hannity tomorrow

 

[PhoenixDark]

How much in a GOP primary?

Haven't seen those exit polls for tonight yet but it seems like it'll be quite noteworthy.

tea party meltdowns on twitter oh boy.

 

[benjipwns]

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/381162/looking-good-mcdaniel-henry-olsen

Looking Good for McDaniel
By Henry Olsen
June 24, 2014 10:15 PM

Cochran is gaining votes in the Delta, but he’s running behind his June 3 performance in the northeast and most other non-Delta counties. In two counties (Wilkinson and Amite) in the SW of the state where results are in, McDaniel won with larger percentages and higher turnouts than on June 3. When Jones and DeSoto start reporting large numbers, Thad’s lead will evaporate. It will be close, but as of now I think McDaniel wins by 1-3 points.

Scott Wilson des111168 • 27 minutes ago
The Republican senate candidate in one of the deepest red states has just been selected by Obama voters.

#somethingiswrong

Richard Reed • 17 minutes ago
With 97% of the vote in, McDaniel is losing by just under 4300 votes. McDaniel would have won rather easily, had just Republicans voted. But Cochran's typical RINO, last minute trick of soliciting liberal Democratic voters to jigger the GOP primary (even though that is illegal in Mississippi, unless you plan to vote Republican in November) seems to have worked. The left has chosen our candidate for us in Mississippi.

The GOP Establishment, just like their lawless colleagues on the left, will use any corrupt trick to protect their privilege and position. For me, this is the last straw, as far as they are concerned.

This one warms my heart:

Matt E Richard Reed • 13 minutes ago
I remember back in 2004 when I was young and naiive and used to like guys like Barbour and Karl Rove. These guys are evil SoB's - kind of like the Chamber of Commerce. Too many low information voters. Too many people don't understand the stakes.

 

[thepotatoman]

NY Times, 1984

He has supported HBCU funding for decades apparently. Didn't know that, but it makes sense. Blacks make up 37% of the vote in MS now.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/07/u...est-republican-mississippi-senator-holds.html

National attention had focused on the race because Mr. Clark, a black man, was given a good chance of becoming the first black Congressman from the state in 100 years. Extensive efforts to register voters in the district, which is 58 percent black, managed to increase the voter turnout by 25,000 votes over two years ago, but increases in the turnout of black voters appeared to have been outpaced by corresponding increases among whites.

Seems like there's a good reason he thought he had to court blacks in 1984 that's quite different from the reason he had to today, and in the end it turned out he didn't even need to do it.

 

[Aaron Strife]

It would have been nice for Democrats to be able to compete in Mississippi, but Childers would have been an underdog anyway.

Fuck off Chris McDaniel

 

[Oblivion]

I'd like to take the opportunity to remind everyone that Thad Cochran's a massive tool as well.

 

[PhoenixDark]

A source close to McDaniel told Breitbart News that is considering legal challenges over ballots. Democrats who voted for Cochran on Tuesday but voted three weeks ago in the Democratic primary in the state were not allowed to vote in Tuesday’s election.

Election results indicate Cochran's late appeal to Democratic voters paid off, with the incumbent senator picking up sizable vote totals in precincts with heavily black populations. Partisanship in Mississippi is largely polarized on racial lines, and Cochran allies paid key Democratic operatives to help turn out the vote.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/24/Cochran-McDaniel-Results-Legal-Challenges/

here we go

 

[RustyNails]

What a bunch of sore crybaby losers. It's a democracy. EAT YOUR SHIT TACOS.

 

[bodyofanamerican]

@costareports
McDaniel goes there... "Republican primary [was] decided by liberal Democrats!" Crowd cheers...

Doesn't sound like a concession is coming anytime soon.

edit: no, definitely not.

"There were dozens of irregularities reported," McDaniel says, as crowd says, "tell us! tell us!"

"It's our job to make sure the sanctity of the vote is upheld." McDaniel seems to NOT be conceding....

McDaniel ends speech, does not concede, "we'll see you soon"

 

[benjipwns]

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/07/u...est-republican-mississippi-senator-holds.html

Seems like there's a good reason he thought he had to court blacks in 1984 that's quite different from the reason he had to today, and in the end it turned out he didn't even need to do it.

He probably assumed that it was a good idea since he was elected in 1978 with only 45% of the vote because an independent black candidate split the Democratic vote almost in half.

Though I can't be assed to pull up the exit polls for 1984 in MS to see what the black vote was.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

https://twitter.com/costareports/status/481643145742929923

Doesn't sound like a concession is coming anytime soon.

edit: no, definitely not.

Of course there were irregularities, we all know the black votes only are worth 3/5th #constitutionalconservatism

 

[PhoenixDark]

I guess wooing voters of the opposite party is only right when Reagan did it (Reagan Democrats, Oakland County, etc). And meddling in primaries is only right when Rush Limbaugh tells you to do it (Operation Chaos).

 

[thepotatoman]

It would have been nice for Democrats to be able to compete in Mississippi, but Childers would have been an underdog anyway.

Fuck off Chris McDaniel

This could be what guarantees a Democrat win if McDaniel runs third party. That "concession" speech suggests he might.

 

[benjipwns]

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/24/Cochran-McDaniel-Results-Legal-Challenges/

here we go

Don't mind if I do...

GoAwayLib • 26 minutes ago
55k new voters and NONE of them are Democratic voters from June 3rd? BS!
More liberal corruption. It is illegal for Dem voters who voted on 6/3 to vote Republican in a run off. ILLEGAL & CORRUPT!

Glorious_Cause Cleatus Van Damne • 19 minutes ago
Massive voter fraud.

McDaniel won this race, I guarantee it.

Challenge every single vote!!

Captain_America • 21 minutes ago
The same black race voters (most of them illegal Democrat voters) that vote race over logic helped this lying jerk over the line out of being told McDaniel "hates" Obama because of his race, not realizing that the tidal wave of illegal aliens that RINO filth like Cochran support is going to utterly wipe them out in employment, opportunities, and even welfare programs. Stupid suicidal behavior is typical of these idiots.

Richard V • 21 minutes ago
I'd challenge also. McDaniel won the first time. These runoff elections are a scam. Close primaries to only those party voters. This doesn't bother me am an NP voter surely can wait to November to make my choice have sat and waited for 25 years for my chance to vote Pennsylvania has closed primaries. It should be that way throughout the whole nation.

bedr1 • 13 minutes ago
It will be easy to see who voted in the original Democrat primary and then the GOP primary because they must sign the election book when getting their ballot.

You can't vote twice for the same election, essentially they are getting 2 votes, one for the Democrat and one for the GOP candidate. Total vote fraud

Wolf Moon NOWAY • 14 minutes ago
If they can toss Democrat party switches in the recount, and there are enough of them, it could be McDaniel. I agree. Recount, with a cross-check of the first primary vote.

J Kevin Brent • 4 minutes ago
Don't be at all surprised if the final result is the Democrat picking up this seat. The RINO Establishment are perfectly happy with that, because one Leftist is the same as another. As long as they keep McDaniel out, Karl RINOve is happy. Just ask Ken Cuccinelli.

bedr1 • 13 minutes ago
I would ask a federal judge to throw out the election because of vote tampering.

whatitism • 8 minutes ago
Live in Ms. and you can rest assured several thousand minority voters voted for thad who have no intentions of voting republican in the election and that's illegal. Our government and voting process is corrupted beyond redemption. Voting has become useless if this stands. Ashamed of the lack of morals and integrity in my state.

1Pippin • a few seconds ago
Cochran does not even understand that this latest INVASION will leave ALL of those USEFUL IDIOTS WHO VOTED FOR SENILITY out in the cold.......INVADERS COME BEFORE US CITIZENS.......and Blacks just voted for the Plantation....AGAIN!...FOOLS!

JMO • 3 minutes ago
McDaniel BETTER CHALLENGE THIS FRAUD OF AN ELECTION. The GOP needed DEMOCRATS in order to beat the Tea Party. Illegal. Time for some accountability. Paying black democratic voters to cast a ballot for Cochran, knowing full well they won't vote for him in Nov.

Wavshrdr • 5 minutes ago
Un effn' believable. I can't believe this travesty. I am not voting for a single Republican ever again unless they are truly conservative. What damn difference is Cochran from a Democrat? I work my butt off and get shafted on the amount of taxes I pay just so some lazy a$$ can suck off the public teat. Anyone in favor of amnesty for illegals needs to be removed from office. What point is swearing to uphold the constitution as an oath of office if you just ignore. This race was the tipping point for me. I don't give a rat's tush if the tea part candidates don't have a chance in hell of winning, I'll never vote for anything but someone who is very fiscally conservative and against illegal immigration.

Dolphieness • 8 minutes ago
I hope McDaniel does launch a legal challenge. Voting is sacred territory and what Cochran, Barbour et al did with this election is beyond disgusting. It is revolting, corrupt, dishonest and illegal. McDaniel needs to challenge this legally for MS, VOTERS IN GENERAL, USA and Voter sanctity & Integrity.

pinkelephant22 SoWhatBubb • 6 minutes ago
In other words, play right into Dems' hands who helped put Cochran over the top so that Repub voters will do exactly what you're suggesting.

You're not a very bright individual, are you?


SoWhatBubb pinkelephant22 • 4 minutes ago
You slobbering Rino imbecile,
voting the RNC Backstabber ticket.
You are the cancer in the Republican party.


Liberty2Day pinkelephant22 • 5 minutes ago
no difference betwen RINO and Dum, it is not as if the RINOs will ever indict Obama over anything or stop the border invasions or eradicate satancare.