The Tupelo-based Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal endorsed Democrat Travis Childers this morning:
Travis Childers of Booneville, the top vote-getter among all candidates in party primaries completed on April 1, is the best candidate on the ballot. Childers is the Prentiss County Chancery Clerk, and his successful, positive and issues-focused campaign in the Democratic primary helped put him in the November general election. […]
Davis unfortunately continues in the special election the same timbre of intensely negative campaigning he used against McCullough in the Republican primary. While negative campaigning crafted by cynical political professionals has sadly become commonplace in elections today, Davis – with assistance in the special election campaign from the National Republican Congressional Committee – has focused on distortions of his opponents’ records and attacks on their personal integrity that are beyond the muddied norm.
This is precisely the kind of scorched-earth politics we need less of in Washington, not more. […]
Childers stands squarely in the mainstream of a long line of people who have ably represented our total 1st District region’s interests in the U.S House.
We support his election.
Special election: 4/22; runoff (if necessary): 5/13.
I can tell you that a whole lot of old-school Democrats that typically vote Republican will read this editorial. My guess is that it will sway some undecided voters.
This newspaper has a big reader base in Tupelo (which was the power base for now-Senator Wicker). This endorsement will certainly do a lot more good than bad.
Commercial Dispatch too