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July 2, 2014

@USATODAY – Open primaries produce viable candidates – black support key to GOP future #mssen

Open primaries produce viable candidates: Our view If the GOP is to remain a viable party in national elections, it will have to attract more black, Latino and Asian-American voters. Chris McDaniel — the Tea Party-backed candidate who lost to Cochran — could have tried to appeal to African Americans. He chose not to. In…
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July 2, 2014

BOBBY HARRISON: Voters legally ignored party lines in #MSSen runoff

BOBBY HARRISON: Mississippi voters legally ignored partisan lines Thad Cochran’s long and noteworthy political career has, in a sense, run full circle. When he was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978, he competed in what was rare at the time – a Republican primary. In that contest, a paltry 73,737 votes were cast…