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Looks like the Cochran-Barbour strategy is working: Let Dems pick the GOP nominee. And SuperTalk is carrying their water. Amazing.

Are all those gonna fit in the trunk of Pete Perry's Lincoln Town Car?

These absentee ballots are being submitted by Democrats, who have been enlisted by the Republican establishment, on behalf of TC.

The Republican establishment is now clearly (and desperately) working from the Democrat playbook.

The Republican establishment never uses these tactics against Democrats - only against fellow Republican challengers to the Republican establishment - which proves that they have the same level of integrity and honor as the Democrats, if any.

Hopefully, the Honorable Secretary Hosemann, will not allow the Republican establishment to get away with it.

So that is about 1,000 more absentee votes in the metro area than in the primary. I'm not sure what that means since the Cochran camp always claimed a higher turnout was better for them, they got the highest turnout ever in a GOP primary, and still lost. Will be interesting to see tomorrow night.

Thad's folks will have to get all those Chris McDaniel signs they stole out of their trunks first. They arrested one of his campaign staffers, a paid one in Desoto county last night for stealing and destroying signs.

9:09am prove it

KF, hope you'll allow this comment.

J. Christian Adams is an election lawyer who served in the Voting Rights Section at the U.S. Department of Justice:

“Democrat notaries who engaged in illegal conduct in previous elections in Mississippi (according to a federal court ruling) are now harvesting absentee ballots for the Republican runoff from African-Americans who have always voted in Democratic Party primaries.”

“Back in 2007, the United States Justice Department sued the chairman of the Noxubee Democratic Executive Committee, Ike Brown. I served on the team that prosecuted that case. Brown was found liable for discriminating against white voters from his perch as the head of the Democrat party.”

“The federal court discussed the behavior of one particular notary – Carrie Kate Windham. Windham was found to have harvested votes as a notary, sometimes voting the actual ballots of the voters. You can read the whole opinion (believe me, the conduct is so outrageous it is worth the read, http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_2/noxubee_opinion.pdf). The federal court: “The Government also presented direct evidence of fraud in the collection of absentee ballots by one notary in particular, Carrie Kate Windham, who became a member of the NDEC during Brown’s chairmanship and whose notary application fee and surety bond were paid by Ike Brown. . . .According to Wood, Windham actually marks Wood’s ballot for her and selects candidates when Wood does not know whom she wants to vote for because, as Wood put it, Windham “knows folks” better than Wood does. Wood testified that her daughter lives with her, and although her daughter is not disabled or illiterate and was not going to be out of the county on election day, she was recruited to vote absentee by Windham. The same was true of Otis Shanklin, who also lives in Wood’s home. Shanklin is not disabled, can read, and is able to go to the poll on election day, yet he casts his vote by absentee ballot in every election and is assisted in every election by Windham; and if he does not know whom to vote for, he has Windham vote for him.”

“This is the sort of voter fraud that academics and political hacks (but I repeat myself) say is rare and doesn’t really amount to much.”

The notaries who have been engaged in voter fraud going back at least a decade are now in the field once again harvesting absentee ballots from African-Americans in the Republican primary who normally never vote in the Republican primary in Mississippi.”

“Under Mississippi law, this is illegal. MS Code Ann. 23-15-575 says that one cannot vote in a primary if one does not intend to support the nominee in November. Because nobody reads minds about the intent of the voter, we are left to use common sense about the behavior going on now in some corners of the state.”

“The bottom line is this: a team of notorious vote fraudsters and absentee ballot con artists are collecting absentee ballots from longtime Democrat voters in Mississippi and delivering these absentee ballots to be counted in the GOP primary.”

I love it. Do ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING to defeat these Nazis.

Whatever it takes. DO IT.

8:55/9:01/9:09 -- Why are you all worried? You have this in the bag! All the polls are in your favor.....don't worry......just relax....you're coasting in to a victory!

No reason voters might have educated on themselves on your candidates lack of a plan, lack of staff control, inexperience, etc. and made a decision it might not be good for the state, over the past 3 weeks. No Way!! Voters aren't that smart are they?

Yea baby. You challenge Haley and friends and you get crushed.

That, or absentees are up because both the Mississippi Bar convention and the Mississippi CPA convention are being held in Destin this week.

9:09
You must not have seen the pictures of Hoseman standing next to Cochran, grinning like the Cheshire cat. Voter fraud? What voter fraud? I don't see no voter fraud!
Hopefully there will be enough good people to stand up and reject this blatant cynical tactic by the Republican establishment.
As was stated by a commenter last week, in just a few short weeks the Barbour crew has destroyed the cohesion of the Republican Party in Mississippi. Democrats will reap the reward of this for some time.

So, an increase of about 1,000 votes (with probably a net of 600 or so for Cochran) in three of the largest counties in the state. That doesn't really sound overwhelming or criminal. It's not 10,000. That sounds like organization, not nefariousness.

Thad has folks calling my house. Asking for my vote. Thad I wrote you several times and pointed out that the constitution put congress in charge of spending. I reminded you the Oboma was operating without a budget and spending was out of control. That it was your duty not to give him more money. And you gave him more money. Several times. I warned you. You have no one to blame but yourself.

That's an 81% increase in the number of absentee ballots. Not suggesting that big of an increase in turnout on Election Day in those three counties, but I would think a double digit increase is very possible.

It occurs to me that a senator represents the whole state and that if democrats want to vote for a candidate that is a republican then it is OK. Thw same applies if a republican votes for a democrat. Do any of you beleive that when the general elaection happens that whoever is up for the election can win without some republicans or democrats voting for them? If so you are wrong!

Good point about the Bar Convention. Reading my Mississippi Bar magazine now and I did not think of what a big factor that could be.

@ 10:17
So, are you saying that the plan is to get Cochran elected, after which Cochran will resign - then Hosemann is to be appointed to continue carrying the water of the Barbour/Republican establishment like Cochran has for all these decades?

So that's the deal Hosemann agreed to - which would explain why Hosemann terminated his early campaign efforts!

Say it ain't so!!!

10:17 -- So I"m guessing you folks, with your Rose Cochran scandal and 4 felonious arrest, the Courthouse 3, the Lane/Ford KKK issues -- none of that did anything to tear apart the party. None of your personal attacks on Cochran starting last March damaged the process in any way......have I got this right?

It was fine for you folks, as long as you were reaping the benefits, but when you were not.....then it was horrible, corrupt, unacceptable........correct?

Take some responsibility! Why would a man who built the Republican party in MS (Read your history) want to destroy it? Seems like that was a concerted effort on the Tea Party's part when they decided to forth Mr. McDaniel and interject themselves in the election process. You all inside the state were a tool for them.

ah yes! the "free the scott sister's" crowd now runs the uncle Thaddeus trolls? sorry @9:40 AM, the "Nazi's" as you call them are far more acceptable than the scott heifers any day..
oh, @ 9:40AM..is that you 'kennuf?

Much of the National Guard is at annual training. Many are out of state. Meanwhile, they're also well aware of McDaniell and his supporters' disgust for the military (I.e., the dissolution of the 155). They are voting.

11:00, I think you summed up the disgust with the country club Republicans..." interject themselves in the election process" ..."the election process" being your own private game of power protection and influence peddling and how dare anyone that hasn't been hand-picked by Haley or Trent try to run for a statewide office.
And it is unbelievable that anyone is still flapping their gums about these bogus Pete Perry manufactured "scandals" . I got a question about this Rose Cochran photo...it was on Mothers Day, right? Was Thad in any of the photos? My guess is no.

Ronnie Lott is doing same ILLEGAL thing... courting "democrat" vote in Canton. Ronnie boasts he nominated first african american to serve as board attorney (this is true - he brought on Mike Espy, card carrying democrat), he has voted FOR MILLIONS of dollars to be spent on a useless park (Sulpher Springs) in Paul Griffin's district and pushed for JSU to have campus in Madison. And if he manages to pull off a win, Madison County loses twice - once by electing Ronnie for Chancery Clerk (he will NEVER fill Arthur's shoes), and two.... current board (Karl, Paul and JB), will APPOINT HIS REPLACEMENT. And we all know how that will go!

11:00
Cochran loves the MS Republican Party (you know, the one he single-handedly built) sooo much that he'll court, and allegedly pay, Democrats to cross over. Anything to save HIS creation, right? Maybe, if he really cared about "all the rubes back home" he might have found time to have a public debate and present his reasons for us to send him back.
And by the way, just what DID Pete Perry do with all that money? Why won't he say?

@ Pappy, I seem to remember Lynn Fitch not being the preferred candidate of the Barbour/Lott networks (each backing separate candidates). And, yet, they coalesced seamlessly behind her and she is a solid member of our state's leadership - who is backing Sen. Cochran. See, she came from the outside, got along well with others, and sees the value in Sen. Cochran's talent and reputation.

I thought Childers had a much better chance of beating McDaniel than Cochran.

This being the case, why would Democrats cross over to help the stronger opponent??

@ 9:40

An interesting side note to that Ike Brown voter fraud case in Noxubee county: Brown's defense attorney was local octoroon, Wil Colum, a Republican close to the white oligarchs of Mississippi.

Check out this report from The Columbus Packet on just how close Colom is to Haley Barbour and George H. W. Bush.

Following is the article from Columbus Packet, 12JUNE2003:

A $250-a-plate fundraiser will be held at Old Waverly next Tuesday (June
17) for GOP gubernatorial candidate Haley Barbour.
We neglected to mention that last month (May 15) Wil Colom flew
Haley to Houston, Tex. in his Citation jet for a fundraiser sponsored by
former President George Bush. Wil's daughter, Niani, went, and
Haley's wife Barbour. The dinner was at a private residence and only ten
couples were at table, including George and Barbara Bush and the
Barbours. When we asked Wil what a plate cost, he replied, "Let's
just say you definitely weren't paying just for the meal."
Wil said Barbara Bush was wearing a blue suit with a short skirt.
He told her, "I love you in that blue suit," and she replied that she
bet he liked the length too. He said he did. She told him, "George
likes it. I wear it all the time."
Wil said that Niani and George hit it off, sitting together and
talking about France, where she lived before coming to Columbus last
year.
"It was a way for the former president to do something for Haley
in Houston," Wil told us. "I'm sure he'll do a bigger one if Haley wants
it."
It occurred to us that the Citation had crashed Mississippi would
have lost both its biggest champion of tort reform and its biggest
class-action lawyer.

1:05, walking around money..

Guys-
I am 77 years old and live on social security. Do you think I will vote for a guy who will probably cut SS. Hell no.

Wil was the GOP nominee for State treasurer in the 1987 elections (Reed v. Mabus)

Good Lawd! Anybody realize it is summer and vacation time? My family voted absentee because we will be OUT of TOWN on Election Day and wanted to exercise our right to vote. Not everything is a conspiracy. Give it a rest. It is a GOOD thing people are voting early and hopefully the trend will carry over at the polls tomorrow. Especially since we had a pathetic voter turnout (17%) last go round.

She is actually from Georgia, but has a sweet gig. Gone from her house being foreclosed and Husbands business bankruptcy to a $180,000 consulting fee and $270,000 salary from Tea Party Patriots. No wonder she is all in for this one. She doesn't want the gravy train to end.

@ 3:06 - you nailed it. Pay attention Tea Party Sheeple! You are being led by outsiders.

@12:53 - Besides Ronnie Lott spending money left and right for the democrats, he has PROMISED not to vote for any tax increases if elected. DOES HE EVEN REALIZE THAT THE CHANCERY CLERK HAS NO VOTING POWER!

All the extra crap that has been thrown around in this election is ridiculous.

Here's my 2 cents.
what is happening in DC sucks.
I am not supporting Cochran to return and do the exact same thing he has done all these years.
I'm voting McDaniel.

Win or loose, I know I will have voted against the DC crap.

"Much of the National Guard is at annual training. Many are out of state. Meanwhile, they're also well aware of McDaniell and his supporters' disgust for the military (I.e., the dissolution of the 155). They are voting."

I'm just stunned by this statement. I did three decades in the military…not the Guard. Each state in the Guard system is only interested in their own money and equipment. You could have 54 states and territories with an unnecessary Air Force and Army and they'd all be happy. So would their elected rep. Get any service chief loaded and ask them if the US needs the Guard. McDaniel AND Cochran will pour money into all of the armories and bases in this state and keep the (appointed by politicians) state generals happy. The Guard units are the "pets" of Congress. Meanwhile, the active duty and reserve forces will continue to try to fight and win regardless of the Guard. Boehner's right. Send them all to the borders and let them hand out water.

4:19 -- YOU GO! We're impressed -- do you also shoot yourself in the foot as an encore????

4:50, you demonstrate part of the problem so well.

4:19 discussing distaste for what's happening in DC, wants a change in representation.

you, on the other hand, try the old personal attack.

4:50, you could walk up to me, slap me in the face, kick me in the knee, throw miles of insults at me, and anything else.

the problem, 4:50, is that you simply do not have the power to intimidate me.

voting against Cochran.

I notice that Cocran supporters, rather than sticking to attacking McDaniel, attack his supporters at a much, much higher rate on blogs or social media. Don't know why, but I have noticed.

I still do not know what the deal is about with regard to democratic voters. McDaniels voted Democratic 10 years ago in the primary.

I had some other thoughts about the silliness of "4 felony ARRESTS" over an unauthorized photo...good luck with the convictions. But 4:44 takes the cake. The Guard is not the military? These guys are on 3rd and 4th or more combat tours and you have the gall to make such an ignorant statement. Clearly you haven't recently served nor have served in combat where you really don't give 2 hoots if your battle buddy is a pulpwood hauler from Scooba, MS or some smartaleck who's paycheck keeps the lights on at the Foxy Lady on Victory Dr
Your viewpoint is an outdated, washed up, mid-80's belief that had some merit then, but these guardsmen have proven their mettle.

note to the guy who is 77 years old and worried about social security. you are joking right? the last time there was any serious discussion about saving social security the plan was to make no changes affecting anyone age 50 or over. and that plan could not get political traction. the social security discussion is not about you. it is about saving it for you children, grandchildren, etc.

I voted absentee for Chris McDaniel

I want a leader who will explicitly not work with anyone he disagrees with (said no one ever, well, except McDaniel voters):

From C-L--McDaniel vows to bring change and to fight if elected to the U.S. Senate. He makes no bones that he’s not interested in bipartisan negotiations or compromise or in bringing home the bacon to Mississippi.

“Senators (Ted) Cruz and (Mike) Lee, they’re not going up there to join hands across the aisle,” McDaniel said. “... Every state in the union is to a certain extent addicted to federal spending. And that means every state is going to have to make sacrifices to save this union.”

I also voted absentee for Chris McDaniel. And I will be "out of the county" pulling out votes for Chris tomorrow starting at 6am.

Am I the only one enjoying the irony of all these radical Republicans spouting "Hope and Change" as the reasons they're voting for a narcissist absentee (state) senator?

Sadly, I suspect McDaniel will win tomorrow, and we'll get 4 1/2 more months of the political ads everyone claims to detest. Our various news media will continue to ride the welcome gravy train of out-of-state cash, though, so good for them. Ultimately, though, November will roll around and rational voters will turn out in droves for Childers. The Senate will be 50/50, federal spending will continue unabated, Richard Shelby will be the ranking member on Approps, significant economic activity will shift east across the state line, and Mississippi farmers won't have a champion in Congress. The radical Republicans will assuage themselves with the fallacy that they "made a statement" by voting Cochran out, while willfully ignoring the fact that, at the federal level, nothing has changed.

Whatever the result tomorrow and in November, Mississippi will get the representation it deserves.

Don't forget, the votes only count if the voter was registered before June 3, 2014, the date of the first GOP primary. They can find as many democrats as they want but they don't count unless they were registered before June 3. As far as the Tea Party, the reasons for its existence haven't changed, ie that the GOP merged with democrats sometime during Bush 2's first term. After Nov. 2008, the GOP didn't exist. It only came back to life to fight the TP. I give money directly to candidates. I don't give money to any national TP groups. For one thing, some of them are just GOP co-opt jobs. Local TP groups have no money, just enthusiasm. A country with 300 million people and wide open borders with thousands of homeless foreigners walking in every day may not survive. It certainly won't survive with only one functioning political party, ie the democrats. The country needs a second party with clearly defined positions. Otherwise, we have a dictatorship. The TP isn't a national party, just an expression of the fact that we don't have two separate national parties today.

Don't forget, the votes only count if the voter was registered before June 3, 2014, the date of the first GOP primary. They can find as many democrats as they want but they don't count unless they were registered before June 3. As far as the Tea Party, the reasons for its existence haven't changed, ie that the GOP merged with democrats sometime during Bush 2's first term. After Nov. 2008, the GOP didn't exist. It only came back to life to fight the TP. I give money directly to candidates. I don't give money to any national TP groups. For one thing, some of them are just GOP co-opt jobs. Local TP groups have no money, just enthusiasm. A country with 300 million people and wide open borders with thousands of homeless foreigners walking in every day may not survive. It certainly won't survive with only one functioning political party, ie the democrats. The country needs a second party with clearly defined positions. Otherwise, we have a dictatorship. The TP isn't a national party, just an expression of the fact that we don't have two separate national parties today.

11:26, well said. I just hope your prediction for today is wrong.

Got tea party town hall call last night. Good call they actually talked "bizness" and didn't take up the talk time with where they took their wife out to eat like GHs town hall meetings. Very productive and impressed.

June 23, 2014 at 5:38 PM
It's the Saul Alinsky method.

Two things we keep hearing from Thad supporters over and over and over. I disagree with both of these. #1 Thad will be so powerful. I believe that Thad will toddle around up there for a few more months before retiring. He is oblivious too old to work much longer. #2 Only Thad can beat the democrats in the general election. Really? We all see the same socialist in the White House working as hard as he can to destroy the country. You really believe that the conservative state of Ms is going to send someone to help Oboma? Not a chance.

@8:59 is the perfect example of a McDaniel voter.

In point #1, s/he is clueless about how a Senate office actually works. Time and again we hear the same authoritative ignorance from McDaniel voters.

In point #2, s/he dares Mississippi Republicans to vote for Travis Childers. This rationale ignores or fails to comprehend the fact that Mississippi is now approximately 38% black, meaning that Childers begins with a base of 37.99%. He'll easily pick up another 12%, particularly against a radical like McDaniel who proudly declares he'll choose country over state while 96 other Senators take care of their much wealthier states first.

Challenge accepted, @8:59. You give me a choice between Childers and McDaniel, and this Republican -- this gun-toting, amnesty-opposing, no abortions no exceptions, strong national defense, low tax, traditional marriage, prayer in schools, New Testament evangelical rational Republican (which I believe would make me a RINO in your world) -- will be voting for the Democrat just like I did when Sonny Montgomery was alive.

Note to 10:00 - you list several political positions and give McDaniel credit for being on the correct side of every one of them. Then you say you would rather support a democrat. No wonder the country is imploding we have too many voters who are lost. I think a large part of the blame lies with the so called republican leaders who do such a very poor job of explaining conservative positions

10:00 AM, thank you for perfectly representing the liberal republicans. Just like the Cochran campaign boys, you would side with democrat/liberals before you would side with conservative republicans. You boys are even begging dems to cross over and vote for TC. When you vote today, be sure to take the time and write in Obama somewhere on your ballot. And your string of adjectives--right off TC talking points, good try.

Good old boy cronyism must stop. We have budgets for our household and DC needs a budget. Too many out of work but a few want to flood illegal immigrants over the borders so they can get cheap labor which screws out of work folks and screws the immigrants who worked hard and came to the country legally. Obamacare--at this point, everyone should be fully aware of all the problems.

I voted McDaniel the first time ad I voted McDaniel this time.

@10:34, it seems your problem is with the Budget Committee. You do realize that's not Cochran's committee, right? Please tell us you understand that the Budget Committee determines how much will be spent and the Appropriations committee simply determines where it goes.

At the risk of insulting your intelligence (which isn't clear because hard to ascertain from your comment whether you understand the difference between Senate Budget and Senate Approps), let's use your household example. Once the Budget Committee decides how much will be budgeted for groceries, the Appropriations Committee decides whether that amount will be spent at Kroger or Wal-Mart. Except that decision is actually whether the money will be spent in Mississippi or in one of the other 49 states.

I beg of you, please explain how, in your world, the budget will get smaller not by voting out someone on the Budget Committee, but by voting out an appropriator.

you are talking about the pork king’s committee assignment---what can I get, give me some, somebody else can pay for it later.

I’m talking about the USA being in debt $17 trillion. Continually raising the debt ceiling, cant seem to support a decent budget because, well, I guess his handlers don’t want that. Funding Obamacare, fiscal cliff vote, voting against conservative budgets, etc. Matter of fact, he’s voted nearly 20 times to raise the national debt. Only thing he continually votes against is getting rid of his pork paybacks.

Wonder what his pork payback will be for the quarter mill Bloomberg gave him...

Lets not kid ourselves by saying Thad is not part of the problem - growing national debt. He has voted to raise the debt limit over and over. He buys our votes with our money, and we are so stupid we keep falling for it.

12:31, you hit the nail on the head.

June 24, 2014 at 11:15 AM ...so...

what you're saying is he's the dealer... not the grower?

4:44 YOU should be ashamed at yourself demeaning the guard as implied in your statement. I don't believe you are in the military at all. I just can't believe someone in the military would make these statements.

9:40 “Under Mississippi law, this is illegal. MS Code Ann. 23-15-575 says that one cannot vote in a primary if one does not intend to support the nominee in November."

Curious...how could anyone prove this?

I voted this evening. I noticed many Rankin county cars at my precinct. Folks getting out and voting. Maybe they don't have their Madison tags yet????

12:31 Of course they keep falling for it.. especially those of that are benefitting financially through grant funding that funnels through agencies in this state and are the same ole' big wigs (especially landowners/contractors/developers)applying for their funding on a regular basis? Why stop voting for TC? Is he making the rich richer? Ohhh but isn't it creating jobs? And do the same cronies get these jobs? And are those that are benefitting the BIG contributors? Hop on and ride the Merry-go-round....and vote for that guy that's fattened your wallet for the past 40 or so years! hahahahahaha. We have been so stupid and naive. EX-TC supporter.

Best part of the day - a priest caught trying to vote in the Republican runoff when he had voted in the Democratic primary. At first he insisted he had not voted in the Democratic primary. Then when I told him our poll books showed otherwise, he slunk out of there saying he didn't remember voting in the Democratic primary. And he left his priest's collar at home. I just recognized him. Pretty sure he was lying.