YEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

The MCS Board voted 5-4 to let the citizens of the City vote on whether to surrender the Charter, leading to merger with SCS.

And on the same night, the Bears CLINCHED the NFC North, whipping the Vikings 40-14 (note: Johnny Knox dropped a sure TD and knocked me out of my Fantasy playoffs).

Oh, and this picture makes me think that's Tomeka Hart looking down at Jeff Warren after the vote:

Courtesy AP and the Chicago Sun-Times

Now she 's done it, now I have to go nuclear!

It's been a race between me and Mabel's campaign manager to see who could out-Possum the other one. She started with The Race is On, I came back with a medley of The Grand Tour followed by Walk Through This World With Me, and thought that settled it.

No, she went and did it by putting up White Lightning. Well, I can't let that stand. I didn't want to have to do it, but I am. You know what this is, I don't even have to tell you.

Wow. I wish Obama would give a speech like this

After Lincoln, our greatest President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, speaks at Madison Square Garden.

They're partying in North Mississippi tonight!!!!

Bill Foster in my old IL-14? Check. Don Cazayoux in LA-06? Check. Travis Childers in MS-01?
Check, baby!

For the THIRD time this year, Democrats captured an open Republican seat in a special election, despite Beelzebub himself making a last minute visit to the DeSoto Civic Center on behalf of Gooper Greg Davis on Monday.

Davis carried only four counties in the 23-county First District, and only ONE (Webster) east of I-55. Childers won by just under 8,000 votes, 57,276 to 49,314; when you consider that Davis carried DeSoto by almost TEN THOUSAND VOTES (14,976 to Childers' 5,015), you realize just what a country ass-whoopin' this election was.

This despite the fact that the NRCC and "independent" 527 Freedom's Watch spent untold sums trying to hang Barack Obama around Childers' neck; however, this backfired AGAIN as it had in LA-06 a few days ago. If the Republicans can't win with the race card in the Deep South, what possible chance does John McCain (or their congressional candidates, for that matter) have in November?

It's still a long way off and a million miles ahead, but it feels mighty good to be a Mid-South Democrat tonight. Oh, and go over to Cotton Mouth Blog and congratulate them; they helped Childers like a lot of us helped Cohen in 2006 (and will again!)

UPDATE: The Great Orange Satan his ownself weighs in on the glorious victory!

We're picking up a Congressional district on May 13!

I moved this to the top, since the election is Tuesday, May 13!

UPDATE 5/9: Our friend Mr. Turnbow reports that GOP officials are learning of internal polls from the Greg Davis campaign that shows him losing 5-10 points to Travis Childers IN THE LAST WEEK!

Please help Travis, this is an UNBELIEVABLE pick up opportunity, this is an R+10 DISTRICT!!!
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The wonderful Matt Stoller at OpenLeft notes that MS-01, the CD immediately to our south, is an R+10 District. However, that didn't stop the voters of North Mississippi from voting by 49% for Democrat Travis Childers, who leads going into the May 13 runoff with Republican (and Southaven Mayor) Greg Davis.

Here are the results from MS-01:

MS-01 (Wicker-Open) Precincts Reporting - 99% 462 of 462

Greg Davis (R) - 46%
Votes: 31,066

Travis Childers (D) - 49%
Votes: 33,138

Non-Active Candidates:
Steve Holland (D) - 1%
Glenn McCullough (R) - 1%

When you figure in the votes of the non-active candidates, you come to the conclusion that in this R+10 District, Democrats received over 50% of the vote, which does not bode well for Davis, who did not fare well outside his DeSoto County base. to win back this district would be SWEET, knowing that all those people who ran crying to DeSoto County because they hated those evil liberals and well, you know, are going to be represented in Congress by a DEMOCRAT.

I love it, and want more.

Pennsylvania? Who cares? For a 10-point victory, she only won THREE more delegates at last count. You need only look below to see what it would take for her to win the nomination. Her campaign is deader than a week-old-fish, and smells about the same at this point.

Let's celebrate REAL victory tonight, and remember to help out Childers if you have time, he's already running runoff ads on the 10 PM local news here. Heh.

Oh, and one last thing; here's Matt's closing comment:

No one likes Republicans, even in R+10 districts.

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