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Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Yesterday, John Cornyn declared that the Republican Party establishment is afraid of its base : "We will not spend money in a contested primary," Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told ABC News in a telephone interview today. "There's no incentive for us to weigh in," said Cornyn, R-Texas. "We have to look at our resources.... We're...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 03/24/2009
Roll Call : Southaven Mayor Greg Davis (R), who lost to Childers in both the special election and in the November general election rematch, said last week that he has no interest in challenging Childers again in 2010. And now Magnolia State Republican insiders have turned their attention to GOP state Sens. Alan Nunnelee and Merle Flowers. Nunnelee, who chairs the state Senate Appropriations Committee,...
WAFB - Local News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Democratic U.S. Rep. Travis Childers has again defeated Republican Greg Davis in a race for the 1st District in north Mississippi.
Vote By Issues! (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Yahoo! News: Democratic Party Bloomberg - Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) — Running in a special congressional election last May, Republican Greg Davis used a tried-and-true Mississippi tactic: a commercial linking Democrat Travis Childers to liberals, especially presidential candidate Barack Obama. Go to Source
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Anzalone Liszt for Travis Childers (9/7-10, likely voters): Travis Childers (D-inc) : 51 Greg Davis (R) : 39 Undecided : 10 (MoE: ?4.4%) The people can't help but like Childers. His favorable/unfavorable rating is 55-24, while Greg Davis is still stuck in a special election hangover, with only a 40-32 favorable rating. Anzalone has had a great track record with this race. Their polling correctly predicted...
The Thorn Papers (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
After we noted his conspicuous absence last week, the GOP's candidate for the MS-01 seat comes out of hiding , with a mea culpa and a new "underdog" vibe and everything: He's reorganizing his staff, apologizing for the tone of previous campaigns and hoping a higher turnout boosts the GOP's chances of reclaiming northeast Mississippi's 1st Congressional District in November. But political...
Blue Collar Republican (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Dick Cheney is slated to speak at the GOP convention. His speaking for Greg Davis’ campaign for congress in North Mississippi probably ruined any chance that Davis had of getting elected. Cheney represents what is wrong with the Republican Party and should be kept as far from the spotlight as possible. This goes to show [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
If you cast your mind back to the May special election held in Mississippi between Democrat Travis Childers and Republican Greg Davis , the GOP thought the best way to maintain their hold on that traditionally ruby-red district was to run advertisements linking Childers with Barack Obama. Famously, the effort failed. Perhaps that's why Oregon Senator Gordon Smith is embracing a fully different tactic:...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Last Month in Mississippi, the GOP lost a historically sound Republican House seat as Greg Davis lost by eight points to Travis Childers despite large investments, including a last-minute fund-raiser by Vice President Cheney. With Denny Hastert and Richard Baker's retirements, the GOP has now lost three House seats this year in special elections. The loss is certainly a cause for concern for Republicans...
Okie Funk: Notes From The Outback - (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
If the Republicans can lose a big election in Mississippi, then they can lose big here in Oklahoma as well. The GOP lost a special House election in Mississippi on May 13. Democrat Travis Childers decisively thumped Republican Greg Davis in a Congressional district that was once considered a GOP stronghold. The district once voted for Imperial President George Bush by a 25 percent margin. Davis, using...
Hog House Blog (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
By Denise Ross Watching the video below, one detects a fresh, still subtle bloom of hubris from Joel Coon. Coon managed the special election campaign of Democrat Travis Childers, who last week defeated Republican Greg Davis in a district so red that it's been described as “scarlet.” (If you think Stephanie Herseth Sandlin is a conservative Dem, [...]
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
(CNN) — On Tuesday, Democrat Travis Childers won a key Mississippi House seat against Republican Greg Davis. The district was thought to be a stronghold for the GOP, with the seat held by Rep. Roger Wicker since 1994. The state’s governor appointed Wicker to the Senate seat of Trent Lott at the first [...]
The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
I've been thinking a lot lately about Barack Obama's impact on downballot races across the country, particularly after Republican Greg Davis' thinly veiled race-baiting campaign ended up creating an African-American backlash that handed Mississippi's 1st district to Travis Childers last Tuesday. Davis figured that polarizing the district along racial lines would be a winning formula, considering that...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Republicans are and should be panicked over the fact that conservative Democrat Travis Childers just defeated Republican Greg Davis by a margin of 54%-46% in the race for a vacant Mississippi congressional seat. That seat is in a conservative district that had given President Bush a 25-point margin of victory over John Kerry in 2004 - it never should have flipped Democrat. This is the third double-digit...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
A message from Mississippi has interrupted the leisurely cruise Republicans in Congress have been taking up that famous river in Egypt, de Nile. Democrat Travis Childers soundly defeated Republican Greg Davis in a special election in a House district that President Bush carried by 25 percentage points in 2004. Mr. Childers' victory completes a trifecta for Democrats in once heavily Republican districts....
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