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Mississippi

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This week on the podcast we do a deep dive on the curious goings on in Mississippi both on our own and with Washington Post Capitol Hill correspondent Robert Costa (special Ricochet Podcast shout- out to Ricochet member Crabby Appleton 2.0!). Then, we go across the sea for a native opinion on what Russia is up to in Eastern Europe with the Hoover Institution's Yuri Yarim-Agaev. Finally, beware of what you order from Amazon.com. It may come back to haunt you.

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Mississippi by Bob Dylan

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  • user_473455@BenjaminGlaser

    Peter could not be misreading the situation in Mississippi in a greater manner. To say the Cochran camp altruistically "reached out" to democratic voters in this election is just nonsense, to put it mildly. This was about as a politically cynical a thing as is possible.

    Mississippi ranks last in all the good categories and first in all the bad categories. So we should just be thankful things are not worse all because of Cochran's pork?

    People have been making the same argument in West Virginia over Byrd's pork for decades. All it has done is leave WV in a government-induced stupor that has left the state in ruins. Excuse me if I expect better.

  • MisterSirius@MisterSirius

    The fellows also failed to mention the infamous anti-tea party flier and the robocall. You know, the ones accusing the tea party of racism, which then prompted the black Dems to vote for a Republican. Did we all just imagine those bits? No. Was it all some complicated "false flag" operation (Democrats making it seem as though it was done by Republicans)? Back-stabbing, smelly politics as usual (Republicans vs. tea party)? Or something else again?

    Please don't say it was a mirage or an urban legend, since none other than Karl Rove writes in today's WSJ "Some new runoff voters were blacks drawn to the polls by an anti-tea-party message," where I take "message" to mean "that vile flier and the klanwatch robocall" rather than some sort of fuzzy "zeitgeist" of "what was in the air" as the candidate bloviated.

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