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Come on AK!!
Took them long enough
- If you mean Mississippi: look, dude, it's an election, not a spectator sport to give you a dopamine rush. Their counting process can be improved (which local outlets like the Mississippi Free Press have covered), and they brought a lot of the affidavit ballot headache on themselves by improperly purging the voter rolls through known-shitty data as a form of voter suppression, but that doesn't change that the counting process isn't done for your entertainment. As long as everything's counted when the state needs to submit it (and in Mississippi's case, when the counties need to submit to the state), they've done their job.
- If you mean the decision desks who called it, until today's dump from Hinds County, Colom was ahead by only about 2500 votes with about 15,000 more left. Decision desks have a reputation at stake – built up over decades – anytime they call a race, let alone one as watched and consequential as this one.
- And if you mean Hyde-Smith, she did this probably less than an hour after the AP called it. She did this quickly and overall has been basically fine through this process.
She did this quickly and overall has been basically fine through this process.
The concession was the big surprise to me. I don’t know anything about her but I assumed she’d drag it into the courts, which was to my understanding, the only path to a ‘recount’ in Mississippi
Agreed; I was surprised to see it come so quickly. I think this is a combination of:
- Knowing there's no way to victory in the courts.
- Following the herd of the rest of Republicans federally; if she's basically the only one standing alone crying fraud, it's probably not going to win over much public opinion.
- The fact that contesting this would probably only bring more attention to how voting in Mississippi is already heavily rigged in favor of Republicans, e.g. the purging of voter rolls. (Edit: And wanting the fire around this to die down for the 2028 election season.)
- The possibility that Colom's lead is still going to increase from here, given how he's been outperforming on affidavit and absentee ballots.
- Her not wanting to drag this out any longer, given she did just lose her Senate seat from Mississippi to a black, Democratic man.
"Her not wanting to drag this out any longer, given she did just lose her Senate seat from Mississippi to a black, Democratic man." that she denied a promotion to a federal judgeship because she is MAGA trash.
100%. Even accounting for the fact she's among a sea of Republicans who lost big this election, this has got to be pretty humiliating. I would just want it to be over in her shoes – and apparently she agrees.
Probably not, given the title, but maybe they meant electing a black person.