Jackson Jambalaya

Thad is in trouble if he cannot win Rankin County. Maybe the box was in Puckett

keep em coming, kf. this is quicker than another site i've got up.

Interesting? Yes. Fun? Only if you're a democrat.

The point spread on this deal is Thad -5.5%.

Belhaven had the highest Republican vote I have ever seen at 5 and a low Democratic. Hear Ocean Springs came out hard in the Republican Primary

They all love adulterers in Belhaven.

newt gingrich would have been a belhaven god then...

um, I wonder who Kay Webber voted for?

Belhaven ... swinger capital of MS? Woulda guessed Fondren.

All this adultery talk has me wondering: Is Sojourner going to remain on McDaniel's "staff" if he wins?

571 of 1,832 precincts reporting (31.2%)
Chris McDaniel
49.3%
36,083
Thad Cochran
49.1%
35,972
Thomas Carey
1.6%
1,187

I just saw 45% reporting Thad was ahead by 3%, (not 5.5) but 3% is not too bad. This thing may go down to the wire.

I'm on page one!

HOTTY TODDY!

WLBT is reporting 49% Thad is up by 3%.

Oh the differences at the two campaign headquarters. The rich and snooty compared to the Bar B Que crowd

I was thinking how the hell does Thad not win Jackson County, but perhaps Moss Point is voting for McDaniel? #easierforChilders

Not seeing McD overcoming this deficit. Oh well.

Please don't give us 3 more weeks of this....

McDaniel won by 10,000 votes in Jones County! WTF!

WOW What a race

All those Federal dollars leaving MissIssippi never
to come back. Sure hope the everybody realizes the
we are moving to the back of the line.

9:44 - these are mouth- breathers who think Billy Joe Landrum is an excellent judge.

If the choice is a McDaniel win or there more weeks for a runoff, sign me up for the runoff.

YESSSSSS! I gotta "Damn".

Thad moves home to Madison now.

Jones may prove me wrong!

Time for Henry Barbour to go all Karl Rove and start tweeting that Thad's path to victory is in Iuka...

C. McDaniel 49.8% 136,648

T. Cochran (i) 48.6% 133,198

T. Carey 1.6% 4,418

89.4% reporting

Please excuse me for asking this. To move to the November ballot is a majority if votes needed or at least 50 percent of total cast? What triggers a runoff between Thad and Chris?

9:44, How has BJL stayed one step ahead of the handcuffs all these years?

10:17- if no majority today, there will be a runoff between top 2.

Time to start considering the Democratic candidate.

Precinct #1706 had 20 votes? Oh brother.

Thad just sent someone to Walgreens for another case of Depends.

10:31 - what constitutes a majority? 51% plus winning by more than 5%? I honestly don't know.

The power of kingfish! Had this site never brought attention to the third candidate that nobody heard of, less people would have voted for him and we would not have to endure more weeks of this!

@10:53, it's 50% + 1 vote. Or, in this case, if #1 has more votes than #s 2 & 3 combined.

@10:53: "Majority" is 50 percent plus one vote.

Well, I guess we'd better get ready for a lot more unemployed right-wing activists who have co-opted a movement that was once a good idea to descend on our fair state for the next three weeks.

Winner has to get 50% plus 1.

With 95.4% in

McDaniel 49.4% 144,851
Cochran 49.0% 143,495
Carey 1.6% 4,605

When will they call the race? Before the 4 boxes are counted or after? Are all of Rankin county votes in?

Chris to the Devil: But you said I would win on election day!
Devil: Your contract says you would get the most votes. That's what you asked for. You're getting that.
I'll keep your room warm for you down here...get it? WARM?!?
AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I kill me!

KF, are you hearing any thoughts on who absentee ballots are likely to favor?

So Harper speaks for Cochran. Handlers afraid to let the senator speak, or was he already in bed?

With 96% in, Cochran is leading in 50 Counties, McDaniel 30 and 2 have not reported. McDaniel won the 3 Pine Belt Counties of Jones, Forrest and Lamar with roughly 22k-10k votes, getting 85% of the vote in his home county of Jones and, 58% in Lamar and 54% in Forrest.

Looks like Taylor's Coast voters got Thad into a runoff and McDaniel's Jones County voters kept Palazzo out of one.

Did Rankin County take pointers from Hattiesburg on how to count ballots?

Absentee ballots should be counted tonight, if Mississippi law is followed. Affidavit ballots will most likely be reviewed tomorrow.

I cannot believe they sent Harper out to speak for Cochran. That looks so, so bad, and they have to know that. How bad is Cochran's condition really if they have to do this on election night?

The turnout for this primary is pretty close to the 2011 state primary. 289,000 voted in that primary, thus far 301,000 today. In 2011, roughly 32,000 voted in Rankin so far, about 16,500 with those 16 boxes out. A big driver of the 2011 turnout was Rankin County residents Bryant and Reeves on the ballot.

Are you saying absentee ballots are already in the numbers reported tonight, or they will be counted separately tonight?

C. McDaniel 49.6% 149,444

T. Cochran (i) 48.8% 146,916

T. Carey 1.6% 4,701

98% in

According to state law, and assuming it was actually counted, the totals announced tonight include absentee ballits. They are NOT to be counted separately. Affidavit ballots must be examined separately though.

What are affidavit ballots used for? Should there be many of them statewide, i.e., enough to get someone to 50%+1 give the number of ballots cast?

To Queen without anything. How can the State of Mississippi DECLINE when we are LAST IN EVERYTHING NOW. If he were a football coach and the team was last in your conference every year for 41 years, would you continue to keep him. Huuumm!

Queen: Why wait ninety days. Move YO pudgy ass now! And take the other Queen, Tom Head, with you. Bye now...

I cannot believe they sent Harper out to speak for Cochran.

It has been a campaign of proxies all along. They won't let him leave on his own terms. They'll prop him up if necessary to make him look viable. The notion that he can physically serve another 6 years is shattered. If the Repubs could get away with letting Thad call it in with grunts and slurred speech like Doug Anderson they'd do that too. Pathetic what they've put him through in order to not allow the election be for an open seat. The incumbent club has torn this state apart.

Dear Queen,

Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.

6:00a.....EXACTLY! and i am as disappointed in Gregg Harper just as much as Thad...will never vote for either again

Queenie threatening to leave Mississippi is about as relevant as Bill Maher threatening to leave the U.S. Why not a hunger strike or sitting on the capitol steps until it freezes? Pull your finger out of a bucket of water and that's the difference either would make.

Thad's campaign has been the political equivalent of "Weekend at Bernies". They have propped him up and pushed him through for their own reasons. A man who does not or can not take to the podium on election night to speak to his supporters needs to not be a consideration. Hell, just send Greg Harper if Thad pulls it out. Really kinda sad that he was not allowed to retire on his own. The Cochran camp better be glad CM stumbled so many times and had real dumb people running his show or we would not be talking runoff.

Heck yeah. That means I will get the R-O-N-N-Y L-O-..TT robocall at least one more time!

This Queenie oddball sure tries extra hard to be funny. Some folks will write or say anything to get attention. I only wish she wouldn't include her photo with her posts.
Queenie is obviously extremely overweight with high blood pressure. Not a pleasant sight to see someone do that to themselves. Get a grip, Queenie! Were you there to smell Senator Byrd's urine or did you just read that somewhere and think that would be cool to write about someday?
Just think, when you get to Georgia you can start calling yourself Queenie, the peach queen without a country and/or anyone who gives a hoot)!
Bye Bye, now!

Don't you just love anonymous bullies ... said the anonymous bully.

McQueenie wrote: "Apparently the tea party has never met Hailey Barbour. He doesn't do loosing. Just wait the other shoe will drop in the nursing home scandal. We will see who's laughing on the 25th"

Haley(not Hailey)doesn't do LOOSING? Lost me there. Did you mean losing? Not very educated are you, McQueenie.
Would that be a LOOSED urine soaked shoe DROPPING in the nursing home? Haley must have done some LOOSING on someone's shoe.
Be sure to give us your "inside" info on the laughing before it starts. You are a trip! Take one!

What does Billy Joe Landrum have to do with all of this?

Ronny Lott, Thanks for proving Madison County can be bought for the low low price of selling your soul to the devil and engaging in disgusting smear tactics.

Tune in on June 25th when Ronny Lott enters the Madison County Courthouse with a key.

Tune in Tuesday June 10th when Madison County Tea Party announces they are not endorsing David Overby because of his record of recommending tax increases!