All candidates will run on one nonpartisan Mississippi Nov. 6 ballot

[sunonmars]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/5/1746764/-Mississippi-Republican-Thad-Cochran-will-resign-from-the-Senate-and-a-crazy-special-election-looms


Mississippi has an unusual special election law. All the candidates will run on one officially nonpartisan ballot on Nov. 6, and if no one takes a majority, the two candidates with the most votes advance to a runoff at a later date. By contrast, in normal state elections, both parties hold primaries, and require a primary runoff if no one takes a majority, and the nominees compete in the general election with their party affiliation listed.

Mississippi is a very red state, but GOP leaders have fretted that state Sen. Chris McDaniel, a tea partier who almost beat Cochran in 2014, could emerge as their nominee and cost them the race. Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have been talking to Bryant about whom he might appoint to the Senate to hold off McDaniel in a special, and they've even encouraged the governor to pick himself; Bryant reportedly isn't interested.

For his part, McDaniel announced at the end of February that he would challenge Sen. Roger Wicker, who is running for the normally-scheduled six-year term. However, McDaniel didn't rule out switching races and running in a special if there was one, and now he'll have his chance. Democrats don't have a great bench in Mississippi, but they'll want to field a viable candidate in case the GOP picks a weak nominee like they did in neighboring Alabama.

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This has the potential to cause havoc....could we pull off another Alabama.

[Stuart G]

1. Under current circumstances...With Trump loosing it...anything is possible..

Even in Mississippi. Who would have thought we had a chance in Alabama?

[longship]

4. Loose, lose!

Loose -- not tight.

Lose -- not win.

[LanternWaste]

6. Colon rather than em dashes between independent clauses

Colon rather than em dashes between independent clauses is more accurate.

[longship]

7. Where does "Trump loosing it" make any sense at all?

No matter where one interposes punctuation?

It is obvious that this is the dreaded lose/loose substitution.

Proof reading is ones ally.

[Proud liberal 80]

8. He is correcting

Your punctuation because you corrected someone’s grammar.

[longship]

9. Punctuation is always a mystery.

And I've misplaced my copy of Strunk and White.

But lose/loose is a grade school mistake, made far too often here.

[bearsfootball516]

2. Alabama, although a tremendous show of what we can do when we GOTV, was the exception, not the rule

Roy Moore was already not super popular in Alabama, and then collapsed when the sexual assault with a minor accusations came forward.

I love what the Democratic Party and Doug Jones were able to do there but if Luther Strange or any run-of-the-mill Republican had been in race, they probably would have won by 10 points.

[sunonmars]

3. A non partisan ballot, so that means no party id on the ballot, that could get interesting.

[marylandblue]

5. The last 3 years has been a political firestorm

I'm convinced anything can happen. Someone has invented the improbability drive (read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) and it's messing up all our predictions. The least likely outcome is the most likely. Therefore I predict a black gay communist will win Mississippi.