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Poll: GOP Senate Incumbent Trailing In Mississippi
In yet another indication that Senate Republicans are really playing on defense everywhere this year, a new Rasmussen poll has bad news for them in even the deep-red state of Mississippi, with appointed Sen. Roger Wicker (R) now trailing former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove (D) in a race that's within the margin of error:
Musgrove (D) 47%
Wicker (R) 46%Sample size: 500 likely voters.
Margin of error: ±4%
As we noted a few days ago, Wicker is already up on the air -- having to introduce himself to voters in a state that President Bush carried with 60% of the vote in 2004.
If the Dems were to manage to knock off a GOP Senator in the Deep South, it really would be a massive victory.
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Wow, since it's rasmussen, he must be down by 6 points or more. I see 60 coming. Awesome.
May 29, 2008 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
And note that Obama does better against McCain in Mississippi than Hillary does, which means Obama being our nominee will give us an edge we wouldn't have with Hillary. Just one of many Senate seats we have a good chance at picking up thanks to Obama.
May 29, 2008 12:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the real news out of Mississippi is Obama down by only 6!!
May 29, 2008 12:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, that's pretty big news.
May 29, 2008 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is definitely a WOW.
May 29, 2008 1:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
My thoughts exactly!!!
May 29, 2008 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why the hell wasn't there a post on THAT?
May 29, 2008 1:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes. That is huge news. Saw it on Kos where it was posted along with the Senate poll. Apparently not big enough news to warrant a mention from Kleefeld though.
Something very NOT surprising about that, I suppose.
At any rate, if there is a chance of Obama running within 10 of McCain in MS through the summer, it will actually make McCain spend money and time in my neighbor just to my south. And IF that is the case, well, I will be laughing and laughing and laughing, perhaps unable to stop.
May 29, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course not. Hey, is there another illogical plan for Hillary to win that you guys can post?
May 29, 2008 6:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mississippi's burning! And it's a BLUE flame!
May 29, 2008 12:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gotta love Obama's coattails.
May 29, 2008 12:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is just funny.
I'd like those GOP strategists who think McCain is going to win by 60 electoral votes to spin this puppy.
May 29, 2008 12:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can't believe TPM keeps posting these pro-Hillary stories.
Stop it Eric and Greg!!
May 29, 2008 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
hee hee
May 29, 2008 1:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama's SIX POINTS BEHIND MCCAIN in freaking Mississippi!
May 29, 2008 12:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Shhhh. That kind of thing apparently upsets Eric.
May 29, 2008 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I feel like The Count. That's ELEVEN GOP Senate seats in trouble.
ELEVEN! Ha, Ha, Ha Ha!!
May 29, 2008 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
At least Congressional Republicans take it like a man when asked to honor those Contract with America term limits:
http://thornography.net/blog/blimgs/santwrm.jpg
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/boehner2-thumb.jpg
May 29, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sweet sweet schadenfreude!
Republicans have got to be having trouble just keeping control of their bodily functions at this point!
May 29, 2008 12:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama supporters are going to just LOVE this. More white bashing and Hillary bashing at Obama's church.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Mocking_Hillary_at_Trinity.html
May 29, 2008 1:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Obama supporters are going to just LOVE this. More white bashing and Hillary bashing at Obama's church."
..which has absolute bubkiss to do with Obama. Desperate much?
May 29, 2008 1:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmm, she is white. And she sure as hell feels entitled to the nomination.
Problem?
May 29, 2008 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
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May 29, 2008 1:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Otto. Case you didn't notice, that was a white guy doing the talking. In fact, it was a white Catholic priest.
May 29, 2008 1:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
In fact, it was a white Catholic priest
Not gonna matter. It was in Obama's church (ya know, the one Obama owns) and therefore, raises the question, yet again, of why Obama knew Jeremiah Wright in the first place.
Or something like that.
May 29, 2008 1:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
haha, Obama owns it.
May 29, 2008 1:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
A hard working white American Catholic priest from West Virtucky?!?!
May 29, 2008 1:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nah, those guys would never visit a Mosque.
May 29, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's something Obama supporters are really going to love: "Young Hillary"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG1LLTYkn4I
May 29, 2008 1:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!!!! FOR THE GOP!!!!!
BUSHMENTUM!!!!!
- courtesy of idiotic
May 29, 2008 1:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
You may want to fix the lead-in on the front page which says the margin is 44-40%. This looks like a confusion with the Presidential poll out of Michigan this morning.
May 29, 2008 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I went to Mississippi to help with the cleanup the summer following Katrina. Things were still a mess, and the insurance companies were doing the Alfonse and Gaston paperwork shuffle. Even Trent Lott sued his insurance carrier. One of my fellow volunteers worked for a major carrier. He couldn't tell anybody who he worked for because he was afraid, very afraid. Folks were mad as hell and Haley Barber was not as well loved as the national media were told by the RNC. You could almost feel a change coming.
May 29, 2008 2:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amen. If we can put Wicker between a rock and the insurance industry, former Gov. Musgrave might take the election.
May 29, 2008 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama will surely help with the down ticket races, and in Mississippi especially. Wicker is not Lott and is really known, I imagine, mainly in his previous congressional district. Now Musgrove being a former governor will be well-known state-wide so he will have less 'introducing' to do. And this being a Democratic 'year' also helps with the potential election of Musgrove to the Senate. It just looks like a positive for Democrats down there. The South needs to be more 'blue' anyway so why not also in Mississippi. works for me.
May 29, 2008 10:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
OK, this is good news, sure,... but if I lived in Mississippi, I'd probably be voting for the Republican. Wasn't Musgrove the religious nut involved in that idiotic Ten Commandments stuff? We don't need Democrats like that. We aren't desperate enough to abandon our fundamental principle of the separation of church and state, I hope!
I don't know if the Republican is much better, but Musgrove looks worst than useless. We've been stung before by right-wing Republicans pretending to be Democrats. Let's remember that.
May 30, 2008 9:07 AM | Reply | Permalink