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Hopefully it will be Governor Hood and not Governor Reeves !

When party and personal loyalty trumps competence ( pun intended) and the lack of "institutional knowledge" and experience is considered an asset, it doesn't bode well.

The U.S. now is adopting the" characteristics of an unstable democracy".

Put the phrases in quotation marks in your search engine. Try to learn something today. The Russians and Chinese are experts in how to destabilize governments and understand that lies repeated become beliefs. And, our enemies know that what you believe, no matter how unsubstantiated, drives your decisions,even when the consequences of those decisions are consistently negative.

Americans like to believe we are individually, uniquely exceptional and thus invulnerable to human weaknesses. We go further to ascribe those weaknesses easily to others. Individually our intuition ( mistakenly seen as judgment that has a basis) is infallible. Our anecdotal experiences are seen as universal as well.

We've decided that all humans are not just created equal, they are the same save for physical appearance. They should therefore act,think,believe and feel just as we do or else they are flawed and dangerous. It never is necessary for us to look at the possibility that we could be wrong as long as we can find enough others who reinforce our misperceptions.

Perhaps the Russians and Chinese are right...balancing individual freedom and liberty is too difficult for our species and historically empires last longer. Democratic republics are very precious and fragile things and now it's very easy to trigger a civil war.

Sadly, too many here think another civil war will favor their side and entirely forget the price of the last one and that the victorious in civil wars don't resolve all the problems as they are too weary in the end.

Wrong. Trump knows that the economy of the United States is like a train set on it's tracks by corporate powers that really control it's direction. Even an egotistical maniac can only make cosmetic trouble and the train will keep rolling along. Mississippi on the other hand is no train and there are no tracks. It's probably the poorest most backwards state in 50 and it's only hope to become competitive is bold leadership. Tate Reeves? Haw Haw Haw.

We should consider the source. This great and unmatched wisdom from Bill Crawford is the same great wisdom that he used when he resigned from the Republican Party because in his great wisdom he wanted to be able to tell the citizens of our state that Ray Nabs would be a great Governor and should be elected over Tupelo businessman Jack Reed.

How did those four years under your guy, Governor Mabus, work out Bill?

Yes, Mabus went on to lead the US Navy under Barrack Obama, but that was after he left out state in deep debt and utter chaos. Yoir guy Mabus's failure in leading our state led to the election of Kirk Fordice.

Thanks Bill. I didn't take your advice back then when you condemned Jack Reed and told us to elect Mabus, and I won't take it again. Your recent picking of Governors hasn't convinced me that after all these years as suckling on the government tit your concept of good government doesn't come close to matching mine.

I know neither Mr. Reeves nor General Hood sufficiently well to form much of an opinion except to say the pair of them do not appear to have brains sufficient to get in out of the rain.

Tell you what else if they don't start watching the carbs they're not likely to live long enough to do much real damage. Morbid obesity is no joke.

I pity the moron whose life is so empty that he/she could possibly give diddly which one is our new governor.

Folks like Mr. Reeves and General Hood and the imbeciles who support them are a big part of why Mississippi trails the other states. On the other hand I kinda like living in a place run by morons. It makes it easy for a person with only lackluster skills (such as myself) and no family money to flourish.

I love it here.

Due to President Trump’s pro-growth policies, real gross domestic product (GDP) growth exceeded 3 percent over the last four quarters.

Real GDP grew at annual rates of 3.4 percent in the third quarter of 2018 and 4.2 percent in the second quarter.

More than 5 million jobs have been created since President Trump’s election and the unemployment rate remains below 4 percent.

This is the eighth time this year that the unemployment rate has been below 4 percent.

Prior to this year, the unemployment rate had fallen below 4 percent only five times since 1970.

The unemployment rate for African Americans in May fell to 5.9 percent, which is the lowest rate on record.

Asian and Hispanic-American unemployment rates have reached record lows this year.

Initial weekly jobless claims have hit a nearly 50-year low under President Trump.

Under President Trump, job openings outnumber the unemployed for the first time on record.

Recently, more than two-thirds of Americans rated “now” as a good time to find a quality job, tying a record high in a poll by Gallup.
Americans are seeing more money in their pockets thanks to the booming economy.

In recent months, workers have seen their largest nominal year over year wage growth in nearly a decade.

In 2017, real median household income rose to a post-recession high.

President Trump’s policies are helping to lift Americans out of poverty.
African-American and Hispanic-American poverty rates reached record lows of 21.2 percent and 18.3 percent, respectively, in 2017.

Since the election, 4.6 million Americans have been lifted off of food stamps.

Consumer confidence has soared under President Trump, recently reaching an 18-year high.

President Trump is delivering on his promise to bring back American manufacturing.
The National Association of Manufacturers’ Outlook Index had the highest annual average in its history over the past year.
Manufacturing added 284,000 jobs in 2018, the most added in a year since 1997
Small Business optimism jumped to a record high under President Trump, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).

The NFIB’s Small Business Optimism Index broke a 35-year record in August.

President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, ushering in the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in American history.
These tax cuts are delivering real results for American families and workers.

More than 6 million workers received tax cut bonuses and benefits.

More than 100 utility companies have announced lower rates.

President Trump is ensuring American workers receive the training and education they need to compete in today’s economy.

President Trump signed an executive order establishing the National Council for the American worker.
More than 185 companies and associations have signed our “Pledge to America’s Workers,” promising more than 6.4 million new training and career opportunities.

The President signed legislation that reauthorized the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, making more than $1 billion available for career education programs.
President Trump has prioritized the economic empowerment of women.
The women’s unemployment rate recently reached its lowest rate in 65 years.

The Small Business Administration lent approximately $500 million more in capital to women-owned businesses in 2017 compared to 2016.

The Administration helped launch the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, which could leverage more than $1 billion to support women entrepreneurs.

At both the state level and federal level, we will never enjoy the perfect candidates until the process changes.

The majority of candidates run for office knowing that if they play their cards right they will be enriched, i.e. they either aren't motived by true public service, or if they are, their motives will soon evolve to personal enrichment.

Consider how many politicians enter office with a modest net worth, but soon become multi-millionaires.

Follow the money, as it is the mother's milk of politics.

Trump - methinks that he is an eccentric genius, and he didn't run for office to get rich.

Thanks for all you do for America, Bill.

I voted for Trump (and against Hillary) and thought that the enormous responsibility of the presidency would have a major effect on him. I was wrong. While Trump cut taxes, he allowed the deficit to grow, which increased the national debt, which continues, like like his predecessors, a false economy with the deficit spending. His Twitter messages and speeches of viciously attacking anyone who disagrees with him is a national embarrassment.

Tate is nothing more than an empty suit and a Trump wind-up doll. His campaign commercials and his comments are filled with lies and half-truths which are embarrassments to Mississippi. While we continue to have the "brain drain", poor roads, poor health care, and poor public education, Tate seems to be proud to keep us at 50th in everything good and 1st in everything bad.

Yes, I voted for Tate in the past. However, on Tuesday, I will vote for Hood.

Don't vote for Chumps For Trump!

Like Tater?

Is Tater a real Chump for Trump?

Or is Tater just posing as a Chump For Trump to get elected?

Either way he's a bonafide chump as are the chumps who vote for people like him.

Yes 10:49 you have done more than put an enthusiastic shine on a flawless Trump train. The train has 50 cars but Mississippi is behind the caboose. Tater's election will ensure that we stay behind the caboose. But I suppose we should be happy to be part of the train. Go Tater?

There were many reasons why I voted Trump but one was he was an outsider. Tate and Hood have been career long insides. No wound there is no enthusiasm. Just more from the Mississippi swamp.

Hang in there Mississippians....Help is on the way. all you have to do is say NO to TATER TOT and get Jim in there. Lt, governor Humpergiki will get bill on to the floor where there can be real discussion..... Tater pouted and whined and killed bills for personal reasons.. You want a f uped Miss. Just vote for the TATE. The Tater has shown his spots when h e allowed the Pubs with money to run him and his negative lies. It ias time to get this state off the bottom. LETS DO IT

What a waste of time; a light weight democrat telling us that Trump is bad and we have 2 very weak people running for Governor. Crawford is a total joke.

If you, as a republican, (I am one), were disillusioned over the appointments made by Barbour (think no further back than Wicker), you soon learned he was a junior player in the appointment arena compared to Deputy Feel. That clown, hopefully on his last leg and gone in a month, used no logic known to man in making almost two hundred appointments to judgeships, commissions, boards, senatorial seats, legislators and God knows who all else.

It's all been a joker's game and he has no remorse. He's proud of all these idiotic appointments. I think it was Aristotle (or maybe Robin Williams) who said, "Never turn over the power of appointment to an arrogant buffoon!" Or maybe it was Andy Rooney.

Vote Tater so Duh Souf can rise agin!

The college board only knows two words: "tuition increase." ....even though, most of the universities are awash in endowment money.

I already voted (absentee), well beyond 65. I voted for Tate Reeves, not because he is the perfect candidate for governor but because he is head and shoulders above Jim Hood. I know both candidates personally and like them both as individuals, but Jim Hood is a liberal democrat posing as a moderate or a conservative. Nothing could be further from the truth. He is a liberal democrat who supported Hillary Clinton for President. Don’t be deceived vote Republican on Tuesday.

At Sunday School today we all agreed that Bill Waller ran the best campaign on the issues. Waller won't be on the ballot, so Hood will get our 14 votes on Tuesday.

It would almost be worth Jim Hood getting elected for Mr. Hood to appoint fellow democrat Kenneth Stokes to a vacancy in the U.S. Senate: talking about an image enhancement for Mississippi. MS would be so PC it would leap frog the other states to prosperity.

Reeves has been running the Senate like Hitler for eight years. It's time to send him to the house with his remaining campaign funds to build his personal access road.

8:37 am The notion that Jim Hood is a liberal Democrat is laughable. Finding a liberal Democrat in the South is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Hood was not out campaigning for Obama or Clinton and actually wasn't seen actively supporting Bill Clinton either. He just maintained a low profile because he's not an idiot.
And, quite a few conservatives didn't vote for Trump as we saw him for what he is and what all of New York already knew he is...a poor little rich boy of limited ability whose Daddy even bought his so called degree. He has to lie as the truth doesn't paint him in a favorable light.

That Hood can do math well enough to understand that Medicaid Expansion is a win for Mississippi is good enough to get my vote.
Here's your hint: When the working poor don't get medical care in time , they eventually qualify for current Medicaid and the bill is higher.
For example: They have diabetes, can't pay for medication so eventually they are blind and face amputations. When they are broke enough to qualify for Medicaid or old enough for Medicare, the bill is much higher.
In short order ( as reliable, unbiased research has shown in our neighbor states that didn't have a math challenged Governor or Lt. Governor, the entire State's medical care costs are reduced by more than the cost of expansion.
It's win /win for everyone. And, we might save rural health care.

... as reliable, unbiased research has shown in our neighbor states ...

Link?

Only thing missing would have been for Crawford's latest column of painful desperation to run at Mississippi Today.

Then we have this totally deranged comment:

Reeves has been running the Senate like Hitler for eight years.

ROFLMAO

I will take Trump and Tate any day over a Hood. The last Dem we had for Governor was using bonds to cover onetime expenses. I do not want gas tax and I do not want any other tax to cover all these expenses that should be paid by our already high taxes. Quit spending money and start fixing/repairing what we already have. That is what families have to do and that is what the State should do.

Maybe Hood can run state agencies like Musgrove did. Three DHS directors in four years.

9:11 - Let me see if I understand your 'logic'. If somebody can't get medical care and later have amputations and are broke, they go on Medicaid. So, let's go ahead and put a bunch of people on Medicaid early, before amputa....Hell, that's not logic, it's insanity.