Democrats Hope to Defy Odds in Mississippi - NY Times

[steve2470]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/us/politics/18miss.html?ref=us

JACKSON, Miss. — As a Democrat running for the Senate in the Republican stronghold of Mississippi, Ronnie Musgrove faces a challenge that was summed up in the angry words of a middle-aged white voter doing business at the courthouse here this week.

“I wouldn’t vote for him if he was the last man on earth,” said Roger Case, an employee of a fire-extinguisher company, as Mr. Musgrove campaigned a few yards away. Blacks in the courthouse beamed at Mr. Musgrove, a lanky former governor; whites, mostly, looked the other way.

Mississippi has not elected a Democrat to an open Senate seat since 1947, but that is not stopping the Democratic Party from heavily financing a major effort here, one of a handful of states — including North Carolina, Minnesota and possibly Oregon — it thinks it can pull from Republicans this fall in a reach for the filibuster-proof 60-vote majority.

More than $3 million has been spent by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to support Mr. Musgrove; turn on a television here and the candidates can be found flailing at each other’s ethics, morals and probity in what local analysts say is a never-seen-before barrage of negative advertisements.

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[Bicoastal]

1. Mississippi is a few decades behind the rest of us, face it.

[ladjf]

3. If you look at the U.S.maps that show the percentage of Dems vs

Repubs, you will notice that Mississippi is already way ahead of most of the other Southern and some Western states in terms of Democratic support.

[msblueinredstate]

2. I have worked my butt off for Ronnie

but I don't think it will happen. If it does you will hear this old white woman scream all across the country. LOL