Greetings form the great state of Mississippi and Cotton Mouth blog. We are hard at it down here, doing everything we can to see Travis Childers get to Washington. The special election is Tuesday. As of tomorrow morning we will hit the 72 hour countdown until we turn MS-01 blue. Mississippi has four congressional districts. Two are represented by Republicans, Chip Pickering (MS-03) and the now vacated seat of Roger Wicker (MS-01). Two districts are blue with Gene Taylor and Bennie Thompson. From just a home-state perspective, regardless of the national implications of this race, I want to proudly say Mississippi has 3 Dems and 1 Repug in congress.
We have already won two big special elections this season. We won IL-14 and LA-06, two runby red districts. The panic mode has set in big for the GOP. They have sent Mike Huckabee and now Dick Cheney down to help the GOP candidate Greg Davis campaign. The NRCC knows how serious this is. They have already spent close to 20% of their cash on hand in defending MS-01.
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