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for the last three weeks in american politics we have known that mississippi tonight was going to be the race to watch. the showdown tonight in mississippi this runoff between incumbent senator thad cochran and tea party challenger mcdaniel, a race cochran very narrowly won tonight this runoff was set in motion three weeks ago in mississippi when neither man was able to clear 50% in the state s republican primary. but these past three weeks of that campaign, these past three weeks of the national press being very, very focused on mississippi and the prospect of an incumbent republican senator losing his seat, these three weeks of all the national reporters flying down there and all the magazine stories and all the beltway press handicapping the mississippi race and the sunday shows weighing in, these past three weeks of intense coverage of mississippi have had
voters in the june 3rd primary to more than 360,000 yesterday. and then to just show you the impact of african-american voters, here s hiennds county. they are 70% african-american. nearly 50% more voters turned out yesterday than they did three weeks ago in the republican primary. in the june 3rd primary, cochran beat mcdaniel by fewer than 6,000 votes. last night cochran s margin was nearly twice that at 11,000. in a race cochran won by 6,000 votes, that s pretty much your ball game right there, folks. there s another aspect to that. mcdaniels defeat is what happens when you outsource your campaign. when it comes to mechanics and money. they were relying on outside groups. we showed you the disparity yesterday. mcdaniels struggled with money and organization for his own campaign and at times it was not clear the right hand knew what the left hand was doing when it came to all of his supporters. meanwhile cochran was a fund-raising juggernaut and organizational juggernaut. that s a h