The current electoral battlefield shows Mississippi's six electoral votes up for grabs. Team Obama has laid claim to GOP strongholds like Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. The next state in line in the South is Georgia. Georgia has polled remarkably close to Mississippi this cycle. Mississippi Democrats have more black voters while the Georgia Dems make up the difference with an influx of highly educated white voters, a lot of them imports to Atlanta.
Big news out of Georgia today. Saxby Chambliss who enjoyed a near 20 point lead a few weeks back is in a dead heat with Jim Martin. If there is anyone I want to see lose it is Saxby. He is a real piece of work. He "swiftboated" triple amputee Vietnam hero Max Cleeland as being a terrorist sympathizer and won in 2002. The other big news from the peach state is John McCain only has a 3 point lead over Obama in the big race. Folks if Georgia is that close, so are we. I am dying for a new Mississippi poll.
Voter turnout might just make some peoples heads explode in a few weeks. Ronnie Musgrove is starting to look more and more like a sure thing and Obama is looking like the race to watch as far as Mississippi is concerned.
Yes. We. Can.
It would be "astonishing" if Obama won Mississippi. I'm interesting in what the latest poll is saying as well.
ReplyDeleteGet ready to be shocked
ReplyDeleteSorry kids, I don't buy it.
ReplyDeleteIf you get a little raw with the numbers, you'll probably see that there's still a majority of right-wing voters here, and it's going to mobilized by fear of Obama (yes, ugly, ignorant "hang the Arab" fear).
I think the voter registrations are outstanding, but there's no guarantee that enough of those new voters will actually turn out to counter the fearmongers.
An addditional thought: Miss. Dems can still play an important role in Obama's national campaign by simply THREATENING parity in voter turnout. McCain-Palin will be hard-pressed enough to compete in swing states; posing a threat in such crimson red states as Mississippi would drain some important resources from the Repubs.
ReplyDeleteBut I have yet to hear of Obama or even Biden coming this far south in these last few weeks.
I've been a bit disillusioned over the number of McCain-Palin yard signs springing up in my neighborhood over the past week. I don't hold out much hope of Obama winning here, but I hope the state Democrats win big.
ReplyDeleteIf Obama wins Miss or even gets in high 40s, we'd be looking nationally at a blowout on the scale of '64, '84 or '72. Just not seeing it. Something akin to '88 election's math is begining to look possible (unfortunately), but Miss will remain red.
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