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lsusteel Donating Member (178 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:48 AM
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Rasmussen Mississippi: Mccain 50 Obama 44 Mccain +6
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/mississippi/election_2008_mississippi_presidential_election
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MannyGoldstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:52 AM
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1. Bush Won That State By 20% - So This Is Amazingly Good News
Edited on Thu May-29-08 11:53 AM by MannyGoldstein
Let's keep beseeching our favorite deities for Obama to even take the solidly-red states.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:52 AM
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2. That is not bad. Not bad at all.
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:53 AM
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3. Wow, he may actually put SOME southern states in play!
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:54 AM
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5. In any case, McCain will be forced to play defense with time and money
in states commonly thought of as safe repuke.
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:55 AM
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8. Yup! And that means less money going to swing states.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:54 AM
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4. Great
It's gonna be a landslide this november.
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:54 AM
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6. Force McCain to spend money down there
Great news.
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:55 AM
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7. wow!
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:55 AM
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9. Wow. Looks like he'll be wasting some of McCain's precious few dollars down south.
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Politics_Guy25 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:56 AM
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10. Wow-that's tremendous
Edited on Thu May-29-08 11:58 AM by RMP2008
Also JC carried MS so it is possible for dems to carry MS.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:59 AM
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15. There's an outside shot he'll pick off MS or GA. I don't think he will, though: McCain can shut him
out by spending/campaigning in those states; Republicans still have the advantage there. Of course, every dollar and every hour McCain spends there is a dollar and an hour he isn't spending on MI, or on VA, or on CO, or on OH...
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 12:09 PM
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17. Exactly.
" every dollar and every hour McCain spends there is a dollar and an hour he isn't spending on MI, or on VA, or on CO, or on OH..."

:thumbsup:
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 12:12 PM
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18. Georgia I think is actually harder than MS.
In Georgia our biggest problem is the suburban counties around Atlanta that vote primarily on taxes and right-wing economic issues. Mississipi's voters are a good deal poorer than Georgia's and also are pissed about Katrina. I was down on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi recently and there was anger there.
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:57 AM
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11. Hey, my old state is finally about to get it right. Congratulations!
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madwivoter Donating Member (454 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:58 AM
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12. Good news
Just think how much that stat will change when we're actually able to switch to campaigning against McCain full-time.
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AnarchoFreeThinker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:58 AM
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13. This is amazing. In states with high African American populations, he outperforms the polls, too.
The news here could be even better than it looks.
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4_Legs_Good Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:58 AM
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14. Great news! I'd think anti-Republican sentiment in the wake of Katrina
in addition to a GREAT candidate would make Mississippi and Louisiana competitive. I'd like to see them both blue, actually!

David
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SteveM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 12:07 PM
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16. I've been saying Mississippi is in play for months, and getting laughed at...
This state has a strong populist history and highly distrusts the wealthy (perhaps for obvious reasons). No Democrat should ignore the South, nor should they confuse Texas with the rest of the South.

Obama has a unique opportunity, here. But he must grind his way through the South and listen to EVERYONE'S concern. I suggest he review the film of Lady Bird Johnson's tour of the Deep South in 1964, just after the '64 Civil Rights Bill was passed, on behalf of her husband Lyndon. She was a nice, charitable and tough lady, and took the edge off a Goldwater "sweep."
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 12:15 PM
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19. What's amazing about this is how he simultaneously gets clubbed in Alabama.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/alabama/election_2008_alabama_presidential_election

Granted, Mississipi's electorate is about 6 points more African American, but still.
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