Mississippi Senate Race: (D) Espy v (R) Hyde-Smith Runoff Election 11/27

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Honestly I knew he'd lose but the results are closer than expected
 

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This could be a Pyrrhic victory for the Republicans. They won a race that was impossible to lose, but in the process came out looking pretty much as bad as they could have looked to the rest of the nation. If you're only winning 56% of the vote in Mississippi, 51% in Georgia, and 49% in Florida, how are you going to do looking like that in the rest of the country come 2020?



mississippi has the biggest black population in the country. results make a lot of sense if the electorate this year is representative of the states racial population.
Nah, the last time a Black candidate competed he got way less than this, it was like no one other than Black people voted for him.

Not to mention that a lot of the Black population is disenfranchised.

This is a meaningful shift in the right direction, even if it still wasn't very close.
 

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This could be a Pyrrhic victory for the Republicans. They won a race that was impossible to lose, but in the process came out looking pretty much as bad as they could have looked to the rest of the nation. If you're only winning 56% of the vote in Mississippi, 51% in Georgia, and 49% in Florida, how are you going to do looking like that in the rest of the country come 2020?




Nah, the last time a Black candidate competed he got way less than this, it was like no one other than Black people voted for him.

Not to mention that a lot of the Black population is disenfranchised.

This is a meaningful shift in the right direction, even if it still wasn't very close.
i thought the last black candidate in miss was really unpopular. didnt he support the anti-abortion measure that failed across the state even as repubs won? i was guessing black turnout was higher than before even as voter repression is still present in the state
 
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