Mephistopheles, Are Those Ice Skates on Your Feet?

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

News flash ... Hell has frozen over. Tuesday night, Mississippians elected a Democrat to fill the remainder of Republican Roger Wicker's term. Really ... No joke ... We picked up a House seat deep in the heart of Dixie, in a R +10 district..
 
Democrat Travis Childers defeated Greg Davis 52% -48-%, with 89% reporting.
 
This is the third Republican seat that Democrats have picked up in the past two months. In March, we took Speaker Hastert's former seat. And, last week, we won Louisiana's 6th District.
 
Republican threw their entire arsenal at Childers, spending more than $1.3 million dollars, not including what their 527 allies pumped in, to air a constant stream of ads tying Childers to Obama and Reverend Wright. The result? Mississippi now has three Democratic House members in a delegation of four.
 
There was a lot of GOP hand ringing after the Louisiana loss. I suspect that there will be a very very tense Republican Conference this week and there may well be coups attempts against leadership. Republican House members must be quaking in their boots. If Republicans cannot win in a R+10 seat in Dixie, where are they safe?

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