Tic tac toe, three in a row. The Republicans have lost a once-solid House seat, no, not Denny Hastert's seat in Illinois ... nope, not the seat the GOP just gave up in Louisiana ... the special election in Mississippi's 1st District, between Republican incumbent Greg Davis and Democrat Travis Childers, which appears to have gone D as well.
JACKSON, Miss. - Democrat Travis Childers wins a U.S. House seat in Mississippi's deeply Republican 1st Congressional District.
Childers defeated Republican Greg Davis in a special election to fill the final few months of a two-year term in Congress. The seat was vacated when Roger Wicker was appointed to the U.S. Senate after Trent Lott resigned.
The win allows Democrats to add to their 235-199 majority in Congress — if only for a few months until November's general elections.
The Republicans, proving they have learned nothing from the 2 previous losses, have tried to paint Childers with the "liberal" tag, and emphasized his association with Barack Obama. This same tactic failed in Louisiana last month where another conservative, pro-life, pro-gun, Democrat won a seat that was thought to be one of the safest in the country for Republicans.
Those tried and true Republican methods which have worked so well in the past aren’t flying this year, in what some have called the year of the centrist. Even Newt Gingrich has warned Republicans that if they don’t change their tactics they face a catastrophic defeat in November. But old habits die hard.
Childers has taken a page from Tip O’Neill’s playbook that all politics is local, and has focused his efforts on issues that affect the mostly rural district of northern Mississippi. Childers won 49% of the vote in the first round of voting and missed an outright victory by a little over 400 votes, so his strategy is apparently working. Davis, on the other hand, turned off many voters with his harshly negative primary campaign against another Republican.
And remember, this run-off is happening because Childers won the race the first time, but not by enough votes.
It's not just the House. If the Dems pick up enough Senate seats in November, Republicans can wave bye-bye to the filibuster, and Traitor Joe Lieberman can say so long to his seniority.
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