All accounts were that Travis Childers, the Democratic candidate for Senate in the state of Mississippi, was sitting on his campaign waiting for the Republican Primary to take place.  Should Thad Cochran win, he would have all but ceased campaigning, seeing about no opportunity to win the race.  Should Chris McDaniel win, he would have started his march toward what may or may not be an actual race.

So, upon the primary victory of Thad Cochran, won with some black Democratic out-reach on the part of Cochran, we get this sour note.

“I certainly hated to see many members of our party cross over yesterday in a primary that quite frankly I felt like we had no business in,” Mr. Childers said.

It’s difficult to see if he has a point or not.  Certainly the Democrats who voted for Cochran in the Republican run-off had the consideration of not quite believing in Childers in beating even McDaniel, and knowing that Cochran is better than McDaniel.  And certainly some issues of self perception and reality were hashed out in Mississippi.

The Republican run-off… continues.  And it is a race for the ages!

Earlier Wednesday, in a fundraising email, McDaniel said, “Thanks to illegal voting from liberal Democrats, my opponent stole last week’s runoff election, but I’m not going down without a fight,”
He called the election “a sham, plain and simple,” citing “thousands of irregularities in the voting process.”
A top adviser to Cochran, Austin Barbour, held a press conference on Wednesday afternoon calling on McDaniel to “put up or shut up” by either coming forward with verifiable evidence of fraud or conceding defeat.
“If they have hard evidence, put it forward,” Barbour said, according to the New York Times’ Jonathan Weisman.
But a conference call between Barbour and reporters afterwards devolved into yet another circus as McDaniel supporters crashed the line.
One unidentified man asked Barbour about “Cochran harvesting black votes like black people harvesting cotton,” according to The Daily Beast’s Ben Jacobs. The phone line remained open after the call ended, where apparent McDaniel supporters speculated whether the bizarre “cotton” question came from a Cochran plant ”or maybe Obama” in order to make them look like extremists.

So the horse race question: Is there any freaking way that Travis Childers can win against this fracture, and if so… is he just going to repeat the word “Unity” from here until November?  (Of course, a Childers win would just be viewed by the “not pulling the level for this damned RINO” McDaniel voter as ungrateful blacks, switching sides again…)

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