Mississippi

I've decided that I'm going to keep up these occasional posts about why McCain can't win, just to piss off certain blog contributors. And here's the latest.

While all the attention (okay, scratch that, nobody really cares anymore) was focused on the West Virginia primary, there was a much more important and consequential election taking place in Mississippi. Think about it for a second - MISSISSIPPI - and you'd be surprised that there is an election at all instead of just a Republican coronation for whatever office happens to be up for grabs.

But no - yesterday's election for the Mississippi 1st Congressional District went to a freakin' Democrat. This was a "safe" Republican seat that the Republicans have held since 1974. Dubya won this district by 25 percentage points in '04. This just goes to show how favorable this year is to Democrats. Don't believe the polls, the only reason there's anything close to a tie is because the Democratic race is still going on and half of the party currently hates each candidate. And even considering that, the latest poll out has both Clinton and Obama easily defeating McCain. That's right. Clinton has a 0% chance of even being the nominee and she STILL would win.

You hear that? It's the sound of me ordering everything on the menu at Buddhas and having someone else pay for it.