Are Dems AWOL as elections loom?
What was the word President Barack Obama used? Shellacked? Yes, that’s it.
Shellacked.
The word was appropriate in assessing the results of the 2010 midterm congressional elections and it was certainly appropriate here in Mississippi.
Here, two incumbent Democratic congressmen were turned out and decidedly so – one a 10-term incumbent subcommittee chairman.
That fact doesn’t bode well for Mississippi Democrats as the 2011 statewide elections from the courthouse to the statehouse loom nearer and nearer. And it begs the question of just what’s happened to the Mississippi Democratic Party.
Clarion Ledger
12/19/10
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