On April 22, Mississippi held an election to fill a vacancy in the U.S. House, First district. Mississippi special elections do not provide for a party nomination process, so two Republicans and two Democrats were on the ballot, along with an independent and a Green.
The results: Travis Childers, Dem., 49.41%; Greg Davis, Rep., 46.32%; Glen McCullough, Rep., 1.43%; Steve Holland, Dem., 1.17%; Wally Pang, Independent, 1.08%; John Wages, Green, .59%. Since no one got 50%, there will be a runoff on May 13. This was the first time a Green Party member had ever run for Congress from Mississippi.
When the First District voted in November 2006, the results had been: Republican 65.92%; Democratic 34.08%. The First District is in the northeast corner of Mississippi, and had been represented by a Republican in all elections starting in 1994.
thanks to james lyndon earl bush the gop is destroyed. the is the start of the earthquake.
The Republican Greg Davis will likely win in November, even if he should lose the May runoff for the special election.
Mississippi usually has some 300,000 more voters in the presidential general election than in the previous year’s gubernatorial general election, and the state has voted for every GOP presidential nominee since 1980. Also, both Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker will be on the November ballot, which will help Davis. And Davis will have Gov. Haley Barbour’s formidable organization behind him as well.
The First District does include the state’s northeast corner, but it also stretches to the west and includes Davis’s home county of DeSoto. DeSoto County is just south of Memphis and is one of Mississippi’s fastest-growing and most Republican counties. The eastern part of the district has more Democrats, and there’s an east-west dichotomy in the district.
steve ,hope you are correct.
THE IST DISTRICT WAS DEMOCRAT UNTIL 1994.STEVE AND BOB YOU BOTH MADE GOOD POINTS.THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE CRAZY ELECTION CYCLE.
Roger Wicker’s District 1 predecessor, Jamie Whitten (D), served from November 1941 through 1994, although he was redistricted several times.
Rep. Frank Smith of Greenwood was a New Deal-style Democrat. In 1962, he and Whitten had to run against each other because of redistricting, and Whitten won. Later in his career, Whitten became more liberal in order to hang on to his appropriations committee chairmanship. (Sonny Montgomery was once nearly stripped of his committee chairmanship by the Democratic caucus. He beat a liberal challenger by only 127-123.)
Next to Bennie Thompson’s district, District 1 is the most Democratic of Mississippi’s four congressional districts.
ALL evil and vicious gerrymanders —
half the votes in half the gerrymander districts = about 25 percent minority rule.
Way too difficult for the party hack Supremes to understand — appointed by party hack U.S.A. Prezs and confirmed by party hack U.S.A. Senators.
Demo Rep: Have you considered making an audio or video of your comments and posting a link to it on this site?
That way, you wouldn’t have to keep writing the same things over and over and over and over…