Mississippi Senate Race

This is the first of a three part report about the recent history of the Democratic Party in Mississippi. Having recently moved to the state, I was eager to make connections with the party. Looking at the party's Facebook page I saw only white people, what's up on that? I wondered. 70% of the base of the party in Mississippi is made up of black voters, yet the party, in recent years has focused on trying to pry loose moderate white voters from the ranks of independent or GOP voters. This obviously does not work.

Last Saturday the party voted in a retired black judge to be their leader. This is a very hopeful sign and one that could prove to be significant in this election year. With only 90-some days left until the November election, time is running short. Please take a look at these three articles. I think there may be hope to elect Mike Espy for US Senate. He's running against Cindy Hyde-Smith who made (and then "justified" her attending a public hanging comment) a horrendous statement and has since even been luke-warm about replacing the state flag. This may be the election cycle Mississippi gets a Democratic Senator?

https://mississippitoday.org/2020/05/27/why-the-mississippi-democratic-party-lost-in-2019/

Mississippi's definitely turning a deeper purple. It'll likely still be a while before it goes blue (although Trump is giving it a big shove in that direction -- even a lot of people here are sick of him), but it'd already be blue if we could just get everyone to VOTE. There are a lot of Dems here who don't bother voting because we know we'll get drowned out by our idiot neighbors... but, in the last election almost 40% of the state voted for Hillary. We're not THAT drowned out, if more of us would just show up.

Cindy Hyde Smith has been an embarrassment, so she's going to be pretty vulnerable in the next election. Even Republicans are hating her. I don't see a long political life for Tate Reeves, either... neither side likes that indecisive dope.