May 14 2008
The buried lead: Democrat takes Republican House seat in special election
Mississippi Democrat wrests House seat from Republicans
In the midst of the MSM falling all over themselves about whether or not Clinton’s totally forseeable huge win in West Virginia calls in to question Obama’s claim on the Democratic nomination, some fairly relevant election news is getting largely ignored.
A special election was held in Mississippi to fill a vacant Congressional seat. Travis Childers, a Democrat, successfully won the state’s 1st Congressional district. It’s very worth noting that this a district Bush won with 62% of the vote in 2004. This is a very red district and Childers won it by 4 percentage points last night. This is the third special election in the past several months in which Democrats of successfully claimed a Republican House seat. And this trend does not bode well for the Republican party come November.
It is also worth noting that the Republican attack ads against Childers attempted to discredit him by tying him to Barack Obama and even featured images of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Can we use this a little bit more evidence that voters a) Don’t care about Rev. Wright and b) will be more likely to vote for downticket Democrats with Barack Obama on the ballot.
This is really great news for Democrats. Take a moment to savor the sweetness.
