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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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...
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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...
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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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The Hill's Pundit Blog (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Overshadowed by Hillary Clinton's big win in West Virginia was a big victory for Democrats in Mississippi. In Mississippi’s 1st congressional district, Democrat Travis Childers defeated Republican Greg Davis in a 62 percent Republican district that George W. Bush carried in 2004 with over 60 percent of the vote. And this transpired even though — or [...]
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
For a look at the deeper meaning of the Mississippi special election –Democrat Travis Childers beat Republican Greg Davis in heavily Republican northern Mississippi on Tuesday and whether Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign is erasing racial consciousness, or raising it click here for Political Perception's daily roundup of analysis from the Web. And while you're [...]
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Right Commentary (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Washington, D.C. (rightcommentary.com): Democrat Travis Childers's win in the special election for the Mississippi First Congressional District over Republican Greg Davis was a disaster. There is no way to sugar-coat this loss. This is a conservative district which should not have been in play. The Republican Party cannot blame this one on an inept candidate [...]
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Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
In the wake of Democrat Travis Childers' stunning eight-point special election victory over Republican Greg Davis in Mississippi's 1st District last night, the Swing State Project is moving its rating of this race from "Tossup" to " Leans Democratic ". Several factors give Childers the edge here: 1) First, the size of his victory. At 8 points, this wasn't nearly as close as many had predicted. In...
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Doug Ross @ Journal (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Paul Mirengoff, writing at Powerline: The Democrats appear to have picked up another House seat in a formerly "safe" Republican district tonight. The latest win for the Dems comes in Mississippi where Travis Childers, a county chancery clerk, seems to have edged out Greg Davis, a mayor. President Bush carried this district twice with about 60 percent of the vote each time. But Childers ran as a
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Political Insider | ajc.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Despite heavy campaigning by Gov. Haley Barbour and Vice President Dick Cheney, Democrats grabbed a third congressional seat from Republicans on Tuesday, this one in Mississippi. In the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger, Republican Greg Davis promised Democrat Travis Childers a rematch...
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BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Tom Curry, MSNBC - Stunning? Only if you haven't been paying attention in recent weeks. Sickening? Yes, if you are a Republican. That about sums up Tuesday night in Mississippi’s First Congressional district. In a special election, Democrat Travis Childers defeated Republican Greg Davis in a district which had long been a GOP stronghold and where only three [...]
