The U.S. Senate race in Mississippi between Democrat Scott Colom and Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is still too close to call as officials count provisional ballots.

This looks like it’ll be decided by just a handful of votes. Democratic challenger Scott Colom is ahead by 65 votes in the latest count in this Deep Red State.

    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
      43·
      11 days ago

      I bet all the people that thought “my vote doesn’t matter anyway, there’s like a million people voting, my vote has no influence at all in the big picture” are feeling real great about themselves now.

      Even if the Dem loses this, I think a race like this in Mississippi can really affect voter turnout in future elections. My bet is that there’s quite a few Dem voters in those deep red states that just don’t bother voting because they think it’s futile. After a race like this there could come quite a bit of those out to vote when they see it’s possible to actually tip states like this.

      • hdsrob@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        11 days ago

        I see this completely.

        I’m in SC, and while we always vote in every election, I walked into the polling place yesterday feeling like I was doing my part, but that it wouldn’t have any effect in SC.

        Was very happy to wake up wrong this morning.

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPM
        2·
        10 days ago

        Absolutely! I don’t think we would have the same blue tidal wave in Texas if not for previous runs from people like Beto O’Rourke, who showed how competitive Texas could be. Probably similar to the work of Stacy Abrams in Georgia.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        10·
        11 days ago

        It looks like his campaign site is offline currently:

        https://www.typinkins.com/

        Not sure if his campaign took it down or if someone broke in or if it was always planned to immediately take it offline with no message after the elections or if it’s just some IT error.

        • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          10 days ago

          iirc he ran in the Dem primary, so I don’t think he was hurting the GOP.

          The Republicans have a long history of helping the Greens, Libertarians, and any other third party. They are confident that GOP voters will always vote ‘R.’

          The cliché is that Dems fall in love, and GOPs fall in line.