Cochran wins, tea party loses in Mississippi

WASHINGTON — Sen. Thad Cochran won the Mississippi Republican Senate nomination Tuesday, edging upstart challenger Chris McDaniel and the tea party movement.

The runoff election victory by the savvy Washington insider was a rebuff to the tea party and like-minded conservative groups that passionately rallied around McDaniel.

His defeat was a bitter blow to a conservative insurgency that began 2014 with enormous ambitions but found itself losing almost weekly.Those groups had vowed to topple the party’s Washington establishment by defeating Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Cochran and others. Instead, they saw most of their challengers overwhelmed by the Republican mainstream, as the party’s business allies and longtime strategists fashioned successful efforts for long-established incumbents.

The Tea Party Express rolled through Mississippi on a bus tour over the weekend. Sarah Palin and libertarian stalwart Ron Paul campaigned for McDaniel.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/06/24/231362/tea-party-tested-in-mississippi.html?sp=/99/104/#storylink=cpy

Just goes to show the idiocy of voters. They complain about the DC politicos then vote the same problems back into office expecting something to change

Well, they now have six more years biotch because it seems that's easier than changing things

Cochran Wins, But McDaniel Camp Eying Legal Challenges

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/24/Cochran-McDaniel-Results-Legal-Challenges

You may have heard the expression: "Das isch doch Hans was Heiri."
Meaning that there's really no difference between two things/people mentioned

A: I think I'm gonna vote for Gingrich
B: Nah, I don't like him, I'm gonna vote for Santorum
A: Gingrich or Santorum - isch doch Hans was Heiri

replace Gingrich and Santorum with any other Politician's name!

http://www.englishforum.ch/language-corner/58007-swiss-german-english-translations-11.html

Yup, they keep voting them back in....

From what I understand, Cochran has gotten Mississippi a lot of Federal dollars in the past and McDaniel was going to cut it off. Mississippi gets a 200% return, Federal $$ spent in that State vs. Taxes collected.

When Dems are called on to swing the vote, how "conservative" or "representative" of the party can that candidate actually be?

The two headed serpent wins again.... the results being NOTHING changes

I believe many States, almost half, have "Open Primaries". From what I understand, the people of Mississippi recognized that they would most likely end up with a Republican in office so many Democrats voted in the GOP primary to choose the candidate they wanted to represent them.

Isn't that what representative government is about?

What about all the States with "Closed Primaries"?

In my State, the largest block of voters are now listed as "Independent" and feel disenchanted with both parties. I believe they also can't vote in presidential primaries.

The political parties are losing popular support because they just can't govern without being utterly partisan. That's why the independent movement is growing at record rates in Arizona.

BREAKING! There May Be Enough Invalidated Votes to Overturn Cochran Victory …Update: 800 Hinds County Voters Crossed Over Illegally

The Chris McDaniel campaign has identified multiple Mississippi counties in which enough improper ballots have been cast that a legal challenge to the outcome of the election is warranted.

This after Thad Cochran reportedly relied on 25,000-35,000 Democrat votes to pull him to victory in the June 24 runoff.

This is patently illegal!

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/06/breaking-enough-invalidated-votes-to-overturn-cochran-victory/

Huge election fraud committed in Mississippi, Dem State Party chair : McDaniel probably Won the original primary outright

In an interview with Breitbart News on Thursday, McInnis--the Hinds County Democrats' top official--said that Perry asked Democrats to help him "break the law" by working together to accept Democratic voters who voted in the June 3 Democratic primary and in Tuesday's GOP runoff.

Charging that Perry "has never ran a legal election in this state" because "he was never qualified by the Secretary of State's office," McInnis alleged that Perry asked him and county Democrats not to share records of who voted in each primary on June 3. The practice--called "switching the books"--is where, heading into a runoff, Democrats and Republicans swap poll books that list which voters voted in the respective parties' recent primaries.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/27/McDaniel-Rushes-To-Review-Ballots-From-Tuesday-s-Election

Either way its win-win, McDaniels is a wacko nutjob like most Tea party members and will probably lose in a general election; Cochran has some common sense. When will people realize that the general population does not agree or want the Tea party, they only win if their district is extremely gerrymandered

You really think an idiot liberal progressive would win in Mississippi?

Haha....

The sad part is that we need some govt to maintain the peace, protect our borders, and enforce our laws... not the PC laws, the ones in our Constitution.

The Repulsicons and Demoncraps can't even do that with a guide! The Tea Party is just another branch of that farce, but seeing how nobody but someone with an R or a D by their name can get (or is allowed to be) elected, I'll take the Tea Party over an establishment candidate any day!

It appears that there may be more Democrats who voted in both Democratic and Republican primaries than divided the final vote. If so, the election results can be reversed. I don't blame McDaniels for being pissed.

Cheating is still cheating.

Maybe,just maybe,you need a bit of this!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland

I think anyone found to be voting in two places contrary to the law, should be tried for voter fraud as a felon and be disallowed from voting ever again.

So they lost a few, big deal. You cant win them all. Not to mention they ran some fringe candidates like Sharron Angle types. The did manage to beat Eric Cantor and it's the first time a House Majority Leader has been voted out off office.

Yes it is, but I really don't want to see him win though. Someone as sick as he is who supports cock fighting and speaks at major cock fighting events and wants to work to make cock fighting legal is someone who shows he has no integrity and also shows he doesn't care about the law since cock fighting is illegal.

We don't need this nut job in Washington.

Who alleged 'walking around money vote buyers?' Dem Party chair in Mississippi

Rickey Cole is the chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party.

During the run-up to the June 24 run-off election in Mississippi, between Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel, Cole commented on what the Cochran campaign was labeling a "��get out the vote" outreach. Cole'��s perspective is radically different. According to The Clarion-Ledger, Cole used his Facebook page to send this message to a reporter from the Wall Street Journal: "��Large sums of cash are being passed around. These guys are old-school "walking around money"�� vote buyers."

http://www.gopusa.com/freshink/2014/07/05/who-alleged-walking-around-money-vote-buyers-dem-party-chair-in-mississippi/

Ted Cruz Just Called For An Investigation Into The Runoff In Mississippi

The Chris McDaniel campaign'��s effort to pore through ballot books in Mississippi'��s 84 counties in an effort to find some 6,900 voters who cast ballots illegally in the June 24 GOP primary runoff – an illegal vote would be from someone who had voted in the Democrat primary on the June 3 election date and then crossed over to vote in the Republican runoff on the 24th - has apparently been successful. At least, that'��s what a tweet from GotNews.com's Charles Johnson says��

REPORT: McDaniel will say that they have identified more than the 6900 irregular votes they need at press conference.

�� Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) July 7, 2014

Earlier today, the McDaniel campaign sent their legal counsel Mitch Tyner out for a press conference to announce they're going to mount a legal challenge to the election result and that they have found evidence of election fraud in the race�...

http://thehayride.com/2014/07/ted-cruz-just-called-for-an-investigation-into-the-runoff-in-mississippi/

I love Ted Cruz, but McDaniel is to radical and has shown he has no integrity. He is just more of the same going in. SJ my friend, it's better to stick with the devil you know.