If that polling is accurate, Childers certainly has an outside shot at taking the special. I wouldn’t bet on it; it’s a strongly Republican district which voted overwhelmingly for Bush twice. Registered Democrats are well represented in the district, but a good many of them are strongly conservative Democrats, holdovers from an earlier era of Southern politics.
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