MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2026
A less-than-clearcut report: Did Scott Colom, to his vast credit, "dare to struggle, dare to win?"
Putting it a different way:
Has the great (Republican) state of Mississippi really gone Black and Blue?
Votes are still being counted! Watching cable, we've seen a succession of murky explanations of how many ballots remain uncounted. This very day, at the Washington Post, the news report excerpted below leaves a bit of confusion in place:
Mississippi Senate ballot deadline looms, as Democrat’s lead remains steady
Mississippi’s edge-of-the-seat Senate race will come into focus this week as Democrat Scott Colom maintains his lead over Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) on Monday morning, up by 2,574 votes in the unofficial tally, according to the Associated Press.
Tuesday is the deadline for counting provisional ballots, known in Mississippi as affidavit ballots, which are required if there is any question about a voter’s status at the polling place. Tuesday is also the deadline for receiving absentee ballots by mail, as long as they were postmarked by Election Day.
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The trends have been in Colom’s favor. The highest number of outstanding votes Monday were in Hinds County, a blue stronghold around the state capital of Jackson, with another chunk remaining in nearby Holmes County, which is even bluer.
Michael Watson (R), the secretary of state, said on social media Sunday that there were slightly more than 2,800 absentee ballots still out. About 12,767 outstanding affidavit ballots had been processed, Watson said, and about 77 percent were accepted.
And so on from there. Meanwhile:
Ooh boy! The murk and the gloaming infest that account! This is why we say that:
Friend, Candidate Colom is ahead by 2,574 votes. The inquiring mind may want to know many ballots remain to be counted, but that's where the mystery creeps in!
There are said to be "slightly more than 2,800 absentee ballots still out." But how many "outstanding affadavit ballots" potentially remain to be counted?
As best we can tell, that passage gives you no way to know. Werewolves of London again!
Cindy Hyde-Smith should concede.
ReplyDeleteShe should go back on the chain gang.
DeleteIn Colorado, Lauren Boebert has lost.
ReplyDeleteBotched boob jobs will do that to a politician.
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ReplyDeleteYeah, Bob, yeah. With this kind of legislative advantage, retarded Dumbocrat pols will have a hard time not passing all those reforms they pretend to "support". Abortion up to two years after giving birth, anyone?
Yeah. That'll be interesting to watch...
Abort Eastern European trolls at any age.
DeleteTrump vows to veto everything. Overriding a veto requires 2/3 of the house and senate.
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DeleteSure. And would this be a valid excuse for retarded Dumbocrat pols not to introduce and pass policy bills they pretend to "support"?
For all I know about retarded Dumbocrats, they might swallow this excuse...
No one said they wouldn’t. You accused of being unable/unwilling to pass them. A bill only passes with the president’s signature or an override of a veto. Dumbass.
DeleteNo, Dumbass. The congress pass a bill. And then, when it's passed, it could be vetoed.
DeleteThe key is the word enacted. A bill only becomes law with the president's signature or an override of a veto. It is passed when enough votes are cast in its favor by the legislature.
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Hey Boris, name three bills the idiot Trumpers passed.
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DeleteNo, retarded Dumbass. The key is the word "retarded".
Nothing special about the hags who lost all the sponsors of their podcast.They're all Democrats. Hateful cluster B.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of hags, Elon lost $500M in this election. Hehe.
DeleteSomerby is expressing fear that Colom might win.
ReplyDeleteI mean, y'all realize Colom is Black, right?
The horror! The horror!
MS Republicans used a private database to assure voters were still at there registered address, and knocked about 300,000 off the rolls. Everybody else uses the USPS. If staying true to Republican form, expect most knocked off are in black neighborhoods, so expect most cured ballots will continue to go to Colom. Haha losers.
ReplyDelete"Did Scott Colom, to his vast credit, "dare to struggle, dare to win?"
ReplyDeleteThis is an insulting formulation on Somerby's part. Democrats all over the country were struggling and trying to win. It is not a matter of "daring".
When Somerby frames this as a matter of will on the part of Democrats, he gets to blame those same Democrats if they lose, even when circumstances may have been too difficult to overcome despite the best efforts of a candidate.
This odd construction of Somerby's is just another way to shift the blame from Republicans to Democrats. Some of his readers may ignore these rhetorical oddities, but they sink into a person's subconscious anyway. This is how he builds a picture of Democrats as less energetic, less exciting, less inspiring and less likely to win, so that there is less enthusiastic support for Dems and our candidates. One little statement like this may seem innocuous, but Somerby is relentless with this kind of negativity and put-down, all while claiming to be one of us. He isn't of course.
Somerby may even be implying that more black candidates could be winning, like Colom, if they just got out there and campaigned strenuously, so that redistricting wouldn't matter and gerrymandering could be overcome, no matter what the color a candidate's skin. That IS the last time he referred to daring to win -- when Republicans were redrawing the maps all over the red states in order to deny black voters their choice of representation. Now Somerby is pretending that Colom followed Somerby's advice, while other black candidates presumably did not.
ReplyDeleteThis is fatuous. It is racist. It is beneath Somerby's readers to be fed this kind of crap about how politics work. It amounts to telling black voters that the reason they cannot elect more black candidates is because they just don't want it bad enough.
The Republican vendetta against the social sciences and behavioral science continues, but is being opposed in court:
ReplyDelete"Some scientists and scientific societies sued President Donald Trump’s administration in the District of Massachusetts on Monday for shutting down the entity that provides nearly two-thirds of federal funding for basic academic research in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
The administration’s effort to eliminate the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) “is a disservice to the American public and a crushing blow to the behavioral and brain sciences,” declared Juliane Baron, executive director of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS).“When I think about the biggest challenges facing people across our country—advancing health and well-being, providing economic and physical security for our loved ones—these are all inherently human questions,” Baron stressed. “We can’t solve pressing societal challenges without understanding humans.”
FABBS partnered with the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP), the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS), and two researchers—University of Massachusetts Amherst lecturer Jenna Croteau and Boston College assistant professor Gregg Sparkman—in the lawsuit, which Democracy Forward filed on their behalf."
The war on Iran is only superseded by the war on science conducted by this corrupt, criminal administration. 10,000 government STEM positions cut. US scientists and predoctoral trainees successfully recruited internationally. A Nobel winner in material science at UCSF is a
Delete…in materials science st UCSF is a prime example, announcing his departure to study his specialty in ceramics used in computer chips in China of all places.
Deletefrom an article in the New Yorker on China v. US:
Delete"I asked Rao (Chinese nerobiologist) about the effects of Trump's cuts to science. "It's very stupid, he said. "Invention doesn't just come out of the blue."
He gave an example: "if the US reduces funding for cancer research, it would be natural that China might invent a cancer vaccine before the US."
Not hard to follow his reasoning.
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ReplyDeleteI’ve given up on David. I still hope Cecelia will get better.
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