Are the republicans in trouble this fall?Democrat Travis Childers won a north Mississippi congressional race Tuesday, giving Democrats their third takeover this year of House seats previously held by Republicans. Childers defeated Republican Greg Davis in a special election runoff. He will fill the last several months of a two-year term Republican Roger Wicker started in January 2007. Wicker had served in the House since 1994. Republican Gov. Haley Barbour appointed Wicker to the U.S. Senate in December after Trent Lott retired.
With 90 percent of precincts reporting, Childers had 50,401 votes, or 52.2 percent, and Davis had 46,160 votes, or 47.8 percent. Childers' victory marks the second time this month for a conservative Democrat to win a Deep South congressional seat that had been held by a Republican. In Louisiana, Democrat Don Cazayoux won a special election May 3, bolstering his party's majority on Capitol Hill by taking a seat Republicans had held since 1974.
Davis, 42, is mayor of fast-growing Southaven. He tried to cast the election in 24 counties as a referendum on the national Democratic Party by saying Childers would be beholden to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Childers, 50, is chancery clerk in northeast Mississippi's Prentiss County. He has spoken against abortion and for gun owners' rights - positions nearly identical to his opponent's. Childers said Republicans have acted as if they own the north Mississippi seat.
The question is, Is the republicans in trouble this fall? With the President at the top of the ticket, and a poor year for the economy, a war still going on, and all the news of democrats winning republican longtime seats. It makes me think that the republicans are in trouble this fall "big time".
Americans all across America is taking a deeper and further look over race, politics and party lines in this years elections. These are a few things I believe they are considering when they go to the polls to vote. They are looking at their empty pocket books, jobs, economy, rising gas prices, war in Iraq, health care and on American voters are voting for the candidate that will better provide for them with the necessities they need in life to provide for their families and themselves in a troubling time. And they are proving in the last three special elections, that Democrats are the ones that they believe can do just that. Three strong republican house districts have went democratic in the last three special congressional elections, first in Illinois, then Louisiana and now Mississippi.
I believe that American people are feeling the same all over America its time for a change. That's seems to be the message in 2008. Change!!!
