re: Democrat Colom wins Mississippi Senate race

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Senate Republicans should have done their fricking job. They caused this and I'm glad she is out.

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Maybe Hyde-Smith was out of touch with her constituents. Colom made a commercial of a comment that Smith said in an interview when she was asked about high meat prices. She said something like pick another protein as though she could care less how much food prices have risen.

Some of these ivory tower republicans are why the Republicans lost, they forgot their base and they stayed home. The Democrats motivated by voting against Trump were ready to pounce on any Republican on the ballot. The Republicans have turned into the Limousine Liberals of the 1990’s.

As close as it was in Louisiana it could have been closer, if the Democrats were more organized in Louisiana or had a more established candidate like a John bel Edwards, they could have flipped Louisiana too.

Letlow’s group seemed to put her campaign on cruise control after winning the primary. I don’t recall her having any big rallies or get togethers in the state. I do recall seeing her Facebook posts of her zig zagging across the state to meet with local politicians, but not in large groups of constituents. Also, her lack of access to the media and not wanting to debate was another ivory tower Republican move.

Now I do have one comment about these elections in the south and the big shift blue with some of these candidates being minorities, this should end any discussion of have raced based districts or having minority drawn districts to elect a candidate of the minority’s choice. A minority won in a state wide election, that should put an end to that argument the NAACP likes trot out when trying to get their racially biased arguments on drawing minority districts.