Dems On A Roll
May 14th, 2008 at 7:18 am by Susie
JACKSON, MISS. — Mississippi Democrat Travis W. Childers won a special election to Congress on Tuesday, helping his party to a third victory this year for seats that had long been in Republican hands.
The victory puts Childers into the House seat vacated by Roger Wicker, a Republican appointed to the U.S. Senate when Trent Lott resigned. The win also gives the Democrats a 236-199 majority in the House — if only for a few months, until November’s general elections.
With 99% of the precincts reporting, Childers had 54% to Republican Greg Davis’ 46%.
Earlier this year, Democrats captured the Illinois district long represented by former Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, who resigned. And earlier this month, Democrats claimed a Louisiana seat that Republican Rep. Richard H. Baker had relinquished.
Despite this promising trend, I’m still very wary of McCain. For some reason, far too many voters are enamored of the “give Congress to one party, give the White House to the other” school of divided government, and the GOP will push that notion hard.
“Despite this promising trend, I’m still very wary of McCain. For some reason, far too many voters are enamored of the “give Congress to one party, give the White House to the other” school of divided government, and the GOP will push that notion hard.”
It isn’t going to happen. Barack Obama is going to hand John McSame his butt, and it isn’t going to be close.
Gug