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Who s been covering the primary. so ron, bring home these resources. that s the refrain from charlie rangel. and in a sense, that s what s on deck when you re talking about an incumbent, somebody who s brought home financial resources to the district. is that what made the difference, even though a small difference? i think that and sentiment. i mean, charlie rangel is a beloved, legendary figure in that part of the state, in harlem, and his district. i think that s what may have pushed him over the top if, in fact, he gets there. and we re talking about 1828 votes as the difference, which is amazing when you think that this is a seat in congress. there are 47,000 people who voted. the winner will have less than 20,000 votes or so. so for that few people coming out to support you, you can become a congressman. and now he s done it 23 times, perhaps, which is an amazing record. of course, the last few years have been diminished. but he s still a formidable figure. all politics is loca ....
You see these intense changes at the local level. the closing of polling places, the intimidation of black voters in florida in june of 2013. we re seeing a return to the kind of activity that section five was really meant to deal with. and we shouldn t take our eye off the fact that local power is also at stake here. and zach, you know, we were talking in the break. i m going to give you a chance to talk back to the so what answer you get from people who support voter i.d. look at what just happened in mississippi. look how many african-americans came out. they were decisive in that primary. doesn t look like any black people are being held back from voting at all. even saying to you, when are you going to admit you are wrong? voter i.d. doesn t have any negative impact. what do you say to that? in the mississippi case, one of the reasons we had a relatively smooth election, it sounds like, is because mississippi itself and the u.s. justice department came out and said, you are ....
Than he did in the primary. mcdaniel only got 1,000 more. i m interested in that happening in a state where it used to be that black voters were fighting to get into the process with the democratic party, but now you re seeing that fight within the republican party. what does that say about the futility of being a democrat that s running for office in mississippi, that black voters felt they had more to gain in the republican primary? i mean, i think it shows it s a little futile. on the local level in a state like mississippi, there are plenty of democratic elected officials, most of them black. but on the state level, precisely because voting there is so polarized, this is true for mississippi, louisiana, and alabama, where the vast majority of blacks are democrats and the vast majority of whites are republicans. trying to run as a statewide office as a democrat is just a hard sell. so you have this very strategic voting from black voters. this isn t anything new. ....
Log. he s funneled tens of billions of dollars in earmarks and funds to mississippi. propping up the state s economy and creating jobs for thousands of his constituents. as the times note, cochran has secured funds for health centers, historically black colleges, directly and indirectly boosting blacks in the state. it s much the same argument we saw being made by charlie rangel and his re-elect in new york. why do you suppose that worked in a red state like mississippi? i think why it worked is because if you are an african-american voter in a state like mississippi, highly republican, highly racially polarized, you re faced with this situation. let s say mcdaniel wins the primary. come november, he stands a very good chance of winning the general election. yes, he stands a worse chance than, say, cochran would against the democratic nominee, but all things equal, a republican is probably going to win that race. so what you re looking at is which republican do i want? do i want a re ....
Mississippians who crossed party lines to vote for the incumbent. twitter is full of comments like this today. black women paid to get out illegal vote for cochran. but for those tea partiers crying foul, consider this. in the recent upset in which david brat defeated eric cantor, there were plenty of encouraging democrats to cross over. remember this guy? breaker one, breaker one. might be crazy but i ain t dumb. anybody home on the hazard net? the actor who played cooter on the dukes of hazard, ben jones, published an open letter before the brat v. cantor primary saying, quote, by voting for david brat in the primary, we, democrats and independents and libertarians, can make a big difference in american politics. it is your right to cast that vote. it is an open primary, and it doesn t preclude anyone from voting any way they wish in november. it may be the only way to empower those who want to make a ....