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Home Front: Politix
Mississippi Political Elites Can't Believe Voters Turning Against 'King Of Pork' Cochran: NY Times
2014-06-19

[BREITBART] The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
has an interesting piece this morning on the runoff election between Sen. Thad Cochran and his Republican primary challenger, Chris McDaniel.

The piece reflects a general amazement at the way that citizens of Mississippi are voting for McDaniel in spite of all the federal spending that Cochran has brought to the district.

One liberal professor in particular is perplexed by the concept.

"It's the strangest thing I've ever seen," Professor Marty Wiseman tells the Times. "It defies logic or reason for somebody to not only run on cutting off the supply of federal money to Mississippi, but to actually be winning the race."

Mississippi residents quoted in the story share a common theme: Washington, D.C. stinks and Cochran is part of the problem.

Posted by:Fred

#6  Nobody worry, Cochran was just endorsed by....Brett Favre! And he knows a thing or two about staying around to long!
Posted by: Charles   2014-06-19 12:09  

#5  First you grow the stones to stop asking for it. Then you demand that it stop going to other states as well.

Oh yeah, and find a different way to please your constituents. Can't just buy them off anymore.
Posted by: Iblis   2014-06-19 09:47  

#4  And as the kiss of death.

"The North was viewed by many southerners as money-grubbing and corrupt, a place of rampant industrialization, big banks, mass immigration of and foreigners, and disregard for the traditions of America, and in favor of blind "progress."

Michael Korda Clouds of Glord, p. 287


Some things, they never change.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-06-19 07:51  

#3  And as the kiss of death, Bloomberg just dropped a wad of money on him.
Business as usual ain't making it this year.
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-06-19 07:39  

#2  He's worried about his share of the loot extorted from taxpayers
Posted by: bright pebbles   2014-06-19 06:20  

#1  "It's the strangest thing I've ever seen," Professor Marty Wiseman tells the Times. "It defies logic or reason for somebody to not only run on cutting off the supply of federal money to Mississippi, but to actually be winning the race."

Someone in academia surprised, disappointed ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-06-19 05:07  

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