Black Democrats Help GOP Candidate Win Election

Black Democrats Help GOP Candidate Win Election

A few Mississippi Democrats recently decided to play nice and help their GOP rival win a mid-term election. And nope, we’re not kidding.

via Gawker

Longtime Senator Thad Cochran beat Chris McDaniel by just over 6,000 votes in the GOP runoff election yesterday in Mississippi. He did so by convincing black Democrats to vote for him and increasing voter turnout overall — in the 24 Mississippi counties with a majority black population, turnout was up almost 40 percent.

In some counties, that trend was even more stark. Jefferson County saw turnout increase by 92 percent, according to Nate Cohn at The New York Times. African-Americans make up over 80 percent of the voting population in Jefferson.

Predicting an increase in Democratic voters, Tea Party organizations deployed poll watchers yesterday to intimidate black voters. In response, the NAACP dispatched its own poll watchers to look for intimidation and other problems. No monitor on either side reported any illegal activity.

This definitely surprising gesture, especially coming from politicians in a southern state. Now if only the GOP goons in Washington could learn to play nice too….