This is no Yawn! Imagine a Repub winning by 8% in Cambridge, Mass.

The GOP "probably didn't turn out" only because so few people now identify as Republicans, even in Mississippi.

Good-bye, Iraq war. Hello, President Obama.

Looks like Mississippi can vote for democrats, but when they do they want them to still be conservative! Doesn't bode well for Obama in November. Hellloooo President McCain!

Anybody that still votes Republican after eight years of Bush Jr's disastrous incompetence and the endless scandals and slime of the Republican Party (those "family values" like molesting boys, soliciting gay sex, stealing money, selling votes to arms dealers etc etc etc) must REALLY HATE AMERICA. Even the people of Mississippi are puking when they hear the word "Republican".

Fair points on him really being a conservative and all that, but can I step back for a second--upwards of $4 million dollars on a single House seat? And it only buys the next 6 months, until you have to do it all over again? Even for bragging rights, whatever side you take, you have to consider that insane! I'm not someone who pays all that much attention to campaign finance laws--I'm usually focused elsewhere. But this does seem a little out of control. I just worry that my party is spending my money to elect someone who will not be a reliable party voter. I'm all for inclusiveness--I don't think people with pro-gun or anti-abortion ideas should be excluded from the party. But there comes a point where I wonder if it really all is just about bragging rights. (Sorry--Lieberman retaining his chairmanships has really gotten under my skin.)

Again, yawn.

They run again in November.

Obama organized the greatest political movement this country has ever experienced, and that is just the beginning. BTW, the Wall Street Journal reported that Clinton received a 20 million donation toward his library from the muslims. And if we were to wipe out the 70 million people of Iran, first of all the oil would stop, the stock market would crash, and the Arabs would buy it all up for pennies. The arguments just don't wash.

HILLARY 2008!

Jo:....forget it...the GOP aren't going to gain back anything...George Bush has seen to that...his stench will hang in the air for a long time to come.

Republicans are learning the hard way that people in the United States want good responsible government. Not slogans, not flag pins, not corruption, not lies, not filibusters, not Karl Rove’s divide and conquer political tactics, but good government. If the GOP wants to govern like children then vote the Bums out! I am happy to see that the US electorate is finally seeing the GOP as the party that produces rotten government.
Until the GOP grows up and start to act and vote on issues in a mature manner the GOP one and all should and need to be voted out of office.

AMERICA WE LOVE YOU BUT!
WHAT IS AMERICAN DEMOCRACY? CONFUSION & PROTECTIONISM. WHEN WILL EACH AND EVERY VOTE OF EVERY CITIZEN COUNTS? WHEN WILL THE MAJORITY COUNT?
Travis Childer, congratulations, the democrats should not loose one seat to the GOP - economy, war, deficit ++++.
What and how will this resolve the DEMOCRATIC PROCESS of nominating a presidential candidate for the DEMOCRATS?
We may control both houses, without a democratic process - the world is watching - how are we going to sell DEMOCRACY, true DEMOCRACY? Sincerely, Lake Hart, a Native American Writer.

Obama won't win the south and yes it is the white vote he is about twenty years before his time.

IT cost 1.8 million for a seat for six months.

Ok, I am from this district, so I have a few points.
1. Childers, the democrat who won, is more conservative than McCain.
2. Davis,-R, ran one of the dirtiest local campaigns I have ever seen.
3. This was the 4th election for this position in 2 months, primary then runoff, election then runoff.
4. I didn't vote and I don't really care, the good news is, both of them will finally shut up.
5. Btw, District 1 is basically the suburbs of Memphis, TN so everyone acting like this is deep rural south needs to do some research

In November we're going to see a Dem tsunami that is going to sweep away the disastrous Bush GOP era for good.

HA! and it cost the GOP 1.8 million to get SQUAT for 6 months...

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) chairman Chris Van Hollen said Childers’ win “sent a political thunderbolt across America tonight."

I hate to rain on Van Hollen's parade but a "political thunderbolt" would be defined as a landslide victory. If the Democrat only won by 51-49, that's not much of a landslide... or a "thunderbolt".

Actually ivan, the final result was 54-46% for Childers. That's not a nailbiter, it's an easy win. Get your facts straight.

The 51-49 margin was earlier in the night. An 8 point win in an ultra conservative district IS a thunderbolt.

clearly a loss for republicans, but the flat-earthers will deny this as insignificant... they'll have some excuse in november when mcbush loses by a landslide

Here it comes. Every Republican to be voted for the House or Senate WILL be tied to President Bush. And everytime John McCain will we be placed as the middleman. Thank you GOP for your negative adds which did not work trying to tie Obama to Rev. Wright to the Dem candidate. You have provided the Dems with the perfect method of blowing out the GOP cronies in the fall.

Hopefully this new representative won't be another suckup to Nancy Pelosi.

The only reason that Democrats are winning on a local level in Mississippi is because of Bush's slow and incompetent response to Katrina. It has little to do with Obama winning in Mississippi during the primary. He did that due to over 90% of the black vote. This democrat won inspite of Obama and as a conservative Democrat has tried to distance himself from the Obama camp.

Don Caj-u (phonetically) won a LA seat last week with the same bull that was pulled on Childers. The GOP put out some nasty ads about Obama, Wright, and Pelosi. That district had been Republican since the 70's.

The GOP should be worried. I know many ex-GOP supporters, like myself who are disgusted with the GOP leadership on many issues. Thinking its about gas prices and middle class tax cuts is ridiculos and shows the GOP leadership's ignorance of the issues.

The GOP is not offering hope or a vision of America for the future. They are running scared, much like a paranoid Nixon rather than a Reagan. They think scaring people on social issues, immigration and people's preachers are going to bring voters their way.

A good number of the voters were born after Reagan and my large margins do not idendify with the party.

Even among the GOP, McCain's independent streak struck a chord with voters and they nominated him over the traditional GOP base candidates. They should heed the cries of the voters and think about the real issues facing voters in this country.

They have milked the war on terror long enough and need to focus on the future and the American dream. Obama has figured that out in his messaging. Clinton and the GOP have not.

JOHN MCCAIN EQUALS WORLD WAR III

Look at the following list of today’s headlines. Do you really want
to vote for John McCain and have all this disaster continue? That’s what
you’ll get if you vote Republican. Just look at these headlines. Can
people be that braindead that they’d continue to vote Republican? Look
at this:_____
Consumer Prices Up 0.2%, Led by Food___
Food prices jumped 0.9 percent___.
Foreclosures Surge 65 Percent in April___.
High Oil Prices Spell Disaster for Airlines___.
Freddie Mac Loses $151M as Loans Falter___.
Personal Stories of Pain at the Pump___.
Oil Prices Soar on Iran Concerns ___.
Retail Sales Drop for 2nd Time in 3 Months

America is changing and Republicans are stuck in a time warp...

They need to be put on the endangered species list.

The stupid RNC is still hounding members for donations using scare tactics about tax and spend Democrats. I told the caller he was not getting a nickel as long as McCain was supporting amnesty for illegal aliens and against drilling for our own oil. I had just filled my tank and it cost $85.00 and I was pissed. The politicians (especially Dems)need to hear more from pissed off voters about $4.00 a gallon gas before it gets to $6.00 and the GOP needs to get a clue on the issues.

"Attention Republicans"you should have worked with the Democrats, in bringing our Soldiers home from Iraq!

Must have been the Cheney visit and all the "gates" that it opened.

I hope Bush and Cheney campaign for every GOP candidate including McCain. These two spell doom for any GOP candidate!

Yeah and Childers had to significantly increase his advertising to distance himself from Obama as a result. http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/14/coattails-rural-districts/
Hope other candidates are prepared to do the same during their elections.

Don't look back, run from every republican you know this november and let us see a tsunami of an election that will punish the republicans in the house, senate, 1600 Penn.,and every lie and mistake they have made for 40 years...or you will turn into a pillar of salt in a cowfield...CASE CLOSED...NEXT!!!!!