With the clock ticking in Mississippi, the Trent Thompson 72-Hour Program is now in full effect. I spoke with Trent earlier this afternoon, and he gave me the following updates:
- Trent’s been cris-crossing the district, from Tupelo to Booneville to the Southaven area delivering literature for canvassers, and he’s seen all of five Greg Davis signs — compared to “literally hundreds” for Travis Childers. Childers is winning the sign wars even in areas closer to Davis’ home turf.
- Trent describes the atmosphere in Booneville, where the Childers campaign HQ is located, as a total “lovefest for Travis”. Not surprising, given that Childers won 85% of the vote in the area (Prentiss County) on April 22nd.
- Dick Cheney’s comments on visiting south Memphis have rankled people in the Tupelo area. Childers has been working that story into his recent stump speeches, saying that Memphis doesn’t need another congressman — Mississippi does.
- Childers is up with an ad on African-American radio hitting Davis on his campaign event with Cheney. Childers will need strong turnout from the black community on Tuesday.
In keeping with the populist tone of his campaign, Childers recently wrapped up his “Fed Up While You Fill Up Tour” in Tupelo, where he sold gas for $1.25 a gallon with Rep. Gene Taylor.
The Davis campaign’s response was hilariously absurd:
Davis’ campaign manager Ted Prill denounced the statements as hypocrisy, saying Childers “has been supported almost solely by liberal Democrats in Washington who would allow Fidel Castro to (drill for oil) closer to our shorelines than we can.”
Special election: 5/13.
having Dick Cheney show up, and (at this point) over 4 million dollars spent here.
Good lord, the Republicans are full of shit.
(BTW, I have to say I don’t like how Childers is now running against Memphis. I hate it when regional hate (Yes, I know the irony of that) enters a campaign. The Republicans like to bash the Northeast, the West Coast, cities, etc. I don’t like for Democrats to do this, too).
That remark from “Davis’ campaign manager Ted Prill” sounds like it could have come from some old Monty Python sketch.
Absurd indeed.
(If that is the person running Davis campaign, my confidence level for Childers has just increased a couple notches)
“In keeping with the populist tone of his campaign, Childers recently wrapped up his “Fed Up While You Fill Up Tour” in Tupelo, where he sold gas for $1.25 a gallon with Rep. Gene Taylor”
Boy these silly stunts politicans do, sometimes it makes me sick. Like this $1.25 gas, or McCain/Clinton’s gas tax holiday.
As Ive learned in my county, winning the sign war can mean squat. I like to call the Democrats the “silent majority”, as with every election in many races the GOP nominees have far more signs than the Democratic nominees do. Yet they still lose, sometimes by wide margins.
Still, I have no doubt we will lose MS-1 Tuesday.
They usually put out a poll on these special elections a few days prior to the election as they did in LA-06 and IL-14. Hopefully they will release one on Monday!
Thank you for raising money for Childers. It means a lot to know we as Mississippi Dems have support from outside the state. Between your site and ours (Cotton Mouth), we raised $5,400.90. That rocks. The campaign got very fired up about when someone brought them printouts of yours and our fundraising efforts. Hopefully we can celebrate come Tuesday. This is uncharted water down here and it feels great!
gotcha, i was wonderin why the doom and gloom. Second thought is that the Childers gas rollback does not hurt the economy in any way, like the lost tax proceeds of the Hill/McCain ploy.
at least Kyle is a respectful person. I personally appreciate his being around, speaking of the perspective from the other side.
(Unlike that newred person around here or was it around SenateGuru who was a general annoyance about a lot of things.)