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June 26, 2014

@RandPaulSenate defends Thad Cochran on #mssen – ‘I’m for more people voting’

Rand Paul on Mississippi: ‘I’m for more people voting’ Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a potential 2016 presidential contender, declined to support tea party critics of Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran’s efforts to mobilize non-GOP voters to win the Republican nomination. “I’m for more people voting, not less people voting,” Paul told reporters Wednesday. Paul, an original…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
June 26, 2014

BARONE: McDaniel grousing but Cochran has won significant votes of Mississippi blacks over the years

MICHAEL BARONE: One lesson from Mississippi: Every vote counts Turnout in runoffs is almost always lower than in primaries; in this case it was 18 percent higher. Much of the difference seems to have been made up of black voters, whom the Cochran campaign assiduously courted. In this I see the fine hand of former…