Aimee Belgard, Alabama, California, Chris McDaniel, Don Norcross, Gary King, Gov. Dennis Daugaard, Gov. Robert Bentley, Gov. Susana Martinez, Iowa, Joe Baca, John Driscoll, John Lewis, Joni Ernst, Mark Jacobs, Matt Schultz, Mike Rounds, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pat Murphy, Rep. Bruce Braley, Rep. Buck McKeon, Rep. Gary Miller, Rep. Gene Taylor, Rep. Henry Waxman, Rep. Spencer Bachus, Rep. Steve Palazzo, Rep. Tom Latham, Rep. Travis Childers, Rick Weiland, Sen. Jeff Sessions, Sen. Thad Cochran, South Dakota, Staci Appel, Steve Lonegan, Swati Dandekar, Ted Lieu, Tom MacArthur
In Election Analysis on June 2, 2014 at 11:38 am
Voters in eight states go to the polls tomorrow, making June 3rd the largest single voting day on the primary election calendar.
Mississippi
We begin our analysis in the south, with the premier race of the day. Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran fights to win renomination against state Sen. Chris McDaniel in order to continue his long political career. Cochran was originally elected to the Senate in 1978 and became the first modern-day Republican to represent a Deep South state. He won his House seat six years earlier, in fact on the same day that Richard Nixon was re-elected president.
The latest public opinion polls actually showed McDaniel leading the senator, perhaps as a result of a unified front of national conservative organizations falling in line behind the challenger and spending Continue reading >
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Mississippi, Rep. Alan Nunnelee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, Rep. Gene Taylor, Rep. Gregg Harper, Rep. Travis Childers, Sen. Thad Cochran
In Election Analysis on March 3, 2014 at 11:05 am
Candidate filing closed in Mississippi on Saturday and two former US congressmen, both defeated for re-election in 2010, will return to appear on the federal ballot again this year.
In a move that had been speculated upon for several weeks, former 1st District Rep. Travis Childers, defeated 55-41 percent by current Rep. Alan Nunnelee (R) in 2010, officially entered the US Senate race. Childers won an upset victory in a 2008 1st District (Tupelo; Columbus; Memphis suburbs) special election after then-Rep. Roger Wicker (R) was appointed to the Senate. He was re-elected to a full term six months later, serving a total of two and one-half years in the House.
But former Rep. Gene Taylor’s political comeback is more surprising. The former congressman won a special election back in 1989 after Republican incumbent Larkin Smith died in a plane crash, and then served 21 consecutive years as a Democrat in a deep red conservative district before losing Continue reading >
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