{"id":14297,"date":"2014-09-20T17:48:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T00:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14297"},"modified":"2014-09-20T17:48:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T00:48:22","slug":"looking-into-that-stupid-mississippi-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/09\/20\/looking-into-that-stupid-mississippi-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"looking into that stupid mississippi senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to gauge the exciting Mississippi race pitting Thad Cochran &#8212; the surreal favorite of black Democrats &#8212; Travis Childers, trying to woo white Republicans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>and the ghost of Chris McDaniels, who&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gulflive.com\/mississippi-press-news\/2014\/09\/chris_mcdaniel_pins_appeal_on.html\"> is arguing some precedent that I can&#8217;t make heads or tails of to reopen his case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>In a legal brief filed late Thursday, McDaniel noted that Gunn waited 34 days to challenge a 2003 Republican primary loss to incumbent state Rep. Jep Barbour. Gunn won the court challenge and the election, and he became speaker of the 122-member House in early 2012.<br \/>\nHowever, in McDaniel&#8217;s case, a judge said the candidate failed to meet a 20-day deadline to challenge the loss in a multi-county primary. McDaniel started his challenge 41 days after the primary. Judge Hollis McGehee dismissed McDaniel&#8217;s lawsuit.<br \/>\nCochran&#8217;s attorneys said in Jones County Circuit Court last month that the Gunn challenge is not relevant to McDaniel&#8217;s case because the timing of Gunn&#8217;s filing was not argued as an issue in the court case that became known as Barbour v. Gunn.<br \/>\nMcDaniel attorneys Mitch Tyner and Steve Thornton wrote Thursday that if the state Supreme Court was wrong in the way it handled Barbour v. Gunn, &#8220;then Speaker Gunn could be removed from his office, since this court&#8217;s ruling in that case would be void. &#8230; Therefore, the Republican Party&#8217;s State Executive Committee&#8217;s certification of Jep Barbour as the winner would stand.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You figure that Cochran knows what he&#8217;s doing by denying all requests to debates from Childers&#8230; which demands for debates aplenty are the last desperate act of the challenger for these things.<\/p>\n<p>One more wild card&#8230; the third party&#8230; Reform Party (???) Candidate Shawn O&#8217;Hara.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever the Reform Party is at this point in time.<\/p>\n<p>Or&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinemadison.com\/main.asp?SectionID=1&amp;SubSectionID=1&amp;ArticleID=29293\">Watergate like conspiracy could tip the race<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 (Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 Watergate.\u00c2\u00a0 Though&#8230; that case hasn&#8217;t much to do with anything.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to gauge the exciting Mississippi race pitting Thad Cochran &#8212; the surreal favorite of black Democrats &#8212; Travis Childers, trying to woo white Republicans&#8230; and the ghost of Chris McDaniels, who&#8230; is arguing some precedent that I can&#8217;t make heads or tails of to reopen his case. In a legal brief filed late Thursday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14298,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions\/14298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}