Bobby Harrison – Dems holding on for dear life
JACKSON – Travis Childers and other Democrats in the 1st Congressional District of Mississippi must be thinking that if they hold on through this election, things will get easier.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that conditions are not favorable for Democrats during this election cycle. The president’s party routinely loses House and Senate seats during mid-term elections.
And a still-teetering economy makes it doubly hard for many Democrats.
Childers, a first-term U.S. House member from Booneville, has it harder than most Democrats. In 2008, when Childers first was elected to the open seat with 54.5 percent of the vote, Republican presidential nominee John McCain garnered a whopping 62 percent of the vote in the 1st District, which encompasses most of Northeast Mississippi.
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