Hooray for our side!

My state of Mississippi seldom has anything good in the news….our economy sucks, racist little turds making noise, health is in the toilet….but now we have broken the strangle hold that cowardly conservs have had on the state for way too long….

It has been a nail biter….but a Dem has won the Senate seat that the GOP has held for decades….

Democratic nominee Scott Colom has defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s closely contested US Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black US senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction, the AP reports.

• Colom’s narrow victory is a seismic shift in Mississippi, which has been controlled mostly by white conservatives for generations, and it will echo through the country as well. The outcome adds to a decisive midterm rebuke of President Trump, whose party suffered defeats in several Republican-controlled states, and it will bolster some Democrats’ argument that their future runs through the American South.

The AP called the contest Wednesday in Colom’s favor after local election officials spent several days processing absentee and provisional ballots, called affidavit ballots in Mississippi. The last time Mississippi chose a new Democratic senator was 1947, and the winner then was a staunch segregationist.

• Colom, a 43-year-old local prosecutor, capitalized on discontent with the economy, Hyde-Smith’s missteps as she sought a second full term, and the large number of Black people in the state. “They actually deserve a senator that will listen to them, that actually cares about what they think, actually cares about what they’re going through,” Colom said in the campaign’s closing stretch.
• Colom said during the campaign that he could represent all of Mississippi, a state where racial divisions have long defined its politics and society. “It’s got to be about having a party that represents rural America again, suburban America, urban America—a party that makes sure we actually deliver for voters in ways that make their lives better, and we don’t come up with excuses as to why we can’t do it,” he said.
• The senator-elect concluded his campaign with an ad that featured him at the Jackson home of Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader who, in 1963, was gunned down in his driveway by a white supremacist and died in front of his family. “In Mississippi, no one is above the law, and no one should be outside its protection,” Colom said, telling the story of Evers’ military service at Normandy in World War II, his voter registration efforts in Mississippi, his assassination, and the three decades it took to win a conviction. “He was killed for helping Mississippians vote,” Colom said. “On Tuesday, use your vote and honor everyone who died for that right.”

Colom has made history and it is about damn time.

Now he has to prove to the state that he is the right person to lead from the Senate….he has 6 years to prove his mettle…..

But it does not mean the racism in the state has been defeated….just that the voter is tired of being screwed by the Donny machine.

We will see where he goes from this time forward.

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