Top candidates raise $715,000 in 1st District matchups

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 4/21/8

If political fundraising is the measure of success, Southaven’s Greg Davis ought to be way out front in the four-man race for 1st District Congress.

But political pundits, party polls and politics-oriented Internet sites say that’s not the case in a tight contest with longtime Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Travis Childers.

Tuesday is voting day for North Mississippians – this time it’s the non-party special election to choose a U.S. House member to hold the seat until a two-year representative is elected in November.