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Polybius

(15,381 posts) Mon Nov 9, 2020, 02:13 PM Nov 2020

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Mike Espy is a great person

I donated to him in the Mississippi Senate race, thinking he had an outside chance of winning, or at least coming close. Yet he lost 42-56%. He ran a good campaign and can appeal to everyone. Can anything else be done in that state?

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Mike Espy is a great person (Original Post) Polybius Nov 2020 OP

You know Mississippi is a majority Black state...it has to be the gerrymander so that is Demsrule86 Nov 2020 #1

It's not majority black Polybius Nov 2020 #2

Kick! Polybius Nov 2020 #3

Demsrule86

(68,543 posts)

1. You know Mississippi is a majority Black state...it has to be the gerrymander so that is

Reply to Polybius (Original post)

Mon Nov 9, 2020, 02:16 PM

Nov 2020

how we turn this around.

Polybius

(15,381 posts)

2. It's not majority black

Reply to Demsrule86 (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 9, 2020, 02:19 PM

Nov 2020

But it's the highest in the country. Gerrymandering shouldn't affect a state-wide race, but it does. It's harder to vote in black districts.

Polybius

(15,381 posts)

3. Kick!

Reply to Polybius (Original post)

Tue Nov 10, 2020, 02:02 PM

Nov 2020

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