Establishment GOP beats Tea Party in Miss.

[Diamond Jim]

Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Santorum all were pushing for the ousting off Sen. Cochran for state senator McDaniel but CNN just projected that will not be so. Very close election though.

 

[second sight]

you mean the democrats voted with the republicans

 

[Diamond Jim]

you mean the democrats voted with the republicans

That's the game. Cochran's camp was pretty smart in reaching out to those who didn't vote in the democrat primary to get him over the top.

 

[ncordless]

One of the scummiest primaries of the season comes to a close.

 

[glennrod]

One of the scummiest primaries of the season comes to a close.

why is it so scummy?

 

[MyOwnSummer12]

The same people killing the country won.

 

[Jukai]

Drats, I was really hoping we could go back to the 1800s.

 

[ncordless]

why is it so scummy?

Well, there's the way McDaniel's supporters took spy pictures of Cochrane's disabled wife in her nursing home.

Add to that Cochrane's late pandering to black dems, the way Cochrane's campaign was constantly retreating from the crazy shit their candidate says, and the general nastiness of the attacks put out there by McDaniel, and you had one scummy ass primary.

 

[AgentOrange24]

Why can't we go back to the good old days of no one giving a shit about primary elections?

 

[second sight]

That's the game. Cochran's camp was pretty smart in reaching out to those who didn't vote in the democrat primary to get him over the top.

chicken shit if you ask me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpp6cYZrrcs

Senator Thad Cochran's campaign illegally rallies black Democrat voters to his cause. It is illegal to encourage someone to vote for someone in the primary who they do not intend to vote for in the general. Rough transcript below.

 

[IGIT]

Drats, I was really hoping we could go back to the 1800s.

hello Jukai,

in a way, i was hoping that the Tea Party candidate won.

i wanted to see if the folks (both on the left and particularly, the far right) really wanted to see the largesse that flows from DC to their state cut off.

- IGIT

 

[TheFirstEMP]

The same people killing the country won.

 

[drowningidiot]

chicken shit if you ask me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpp6cYZrrcs

Senator Thad Cochran's campaign illegally rallies black Democrat voters to his cause. It is illegal to encourage someone to vote for someone in the primary who they do not intend to vote for in the general. Rough transcript below.

Hahaha that's awesome. I like how disparate groups of people got together to defeat the worthless Tea Party shitmuffin. It's actually kind of heart-warming.

 

[second sight]

Hahaha that's awesome.

are there any illegal activity as it relates to corrupting elections that democrats disagree with?

 

[drowningidiot]

are there any illegal activity as it relates to corrupting elections that democrats disagree with?

I'm not too familiar with that law but it seems like it would be difficult to prove the intent. Obviously blacks are going to vote Dem in the general but unless they come right out and say so it's not like poll workers can read minds.

 

[ncordless]

I'm not too familiar with that law but it seems like it would be difficult to prove the intent. Obviously blacks are going to vote Dem in the general but unless they come right out and say so it's not like poll workers can read minds.

It is nearly impossible, absent some explicit declaration at the time of the primary that the person intends to switch parties for the general election. As the Miss. Attorney General said in an advisory opinion:

A person lawfully in the polling place may challenge a voter based on party loyalty only if the voter openly declares he does not intend to support the nominees of the party whose primary the voter is participating in.

You can't keep them from voting in the GOP primary just because they're black, no matter how much it may seem like good evidence of intent to switch.

Also, note that it is not illegal to actually switch parties between primary and general elections, just to intend to do so when one votes in the primary. So unless there's evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the person intended to switch at the time of primary vote, there's not much of a case.

 

[second sight]

I'm not too familiar with that law but it seems like it would be difficult to prove the intent. Obviously blacks are going to vote Dem in the general but unless they come right out and say so it's not like poll workers can read minds.

me either but why even have election laws if they are never going to be enforced?

I don't think the law was broke by them voting, I think it was the tactics used to get them to the polls

I'd like to know where he got the list of people to robocall

 

[drowningidiot]

me either but why even have election laws if they are never going to be enforced?

I don't think the law was broke by them voting, I think it was the tactics used to get them to the polls

Yeah I'm not sure how it could ever be enforced really. Either way it was a smart move by Cochran and it makes sense for black Dems since the winner of this race was always going to be nearly a lock in the general.

I'd like to know where he got the list of people to robocall

I'm not entirely sure but maybe they didn't even need a list and just blanketed black areas with calls?

 

[second sight]

Yeah I'm not sure how it could ever be enforced really. Either way it was a smart move by Cochran and it makes sense for black Dems since the winner of this race was always going to be nearly a lock in the general.



I'm not entirely sure but maybe they didn't even need a list and just blanketed black areas with calls?

you can't dial by zip codes

 

[drowningidiot]

you can't dial by zip codes

Hmm I have no idea. I don't think it's overly important. Is it illegal for Cochran to be in possession of such a list or for somebody to provide him with one?