MS-01: Will Democrats Pull Off Another Special Election? UPDATE: YES

Swing State Project is following the special election in Mississippi tonight, and so far with a third of the vote in, Democrat Travis Childers is leading by 10 points over Greg Davis. Childers is apparently outperforming his results in the last round of voting thus far, and he actually won that one by 49%-46%, so we could see history in the making.

(UPDATE: now it's 6 points. The Clarion-Ledger has the most updated numbers.)

The only news that came out of this today was that Davis apparently supported putting up a statue of Confederate leader and KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest in his hometown, which he denied, but which contemporary news accounts show to be true. But in truth that didn't affect anything today. This seat, won by Bush with 62% of the vote in 2004, is so close right now because Republicans are poison in this day and age.

UPDATE II: About halfway through, and Childers is up by 8 points and 3,500 votes. There are a lot of Davis-friendly precincts out, so I can't say Childers has this yet. But it's looking good.

Have to head out, I'll update this later.

UPDATE III: We did it. Once again, Republicans in a deep red seat went all-out to win, through everything they had at the Democrat, tried to tie him to Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama and all the rest, and they... lost. And lost significantly, by 8 points in an R+10 district.

Repeat it with me, Republicans are poison.

Swing State Project has a funny "draft the NRCC press release" contest on this one. They did better than the actual one. Tom Cole has finally figured out that Republicans are poison, and he doesn't even try to spin these results.

Amazing.

UPDATE IV: Turns out Scott Kleeb won his Nebraska Senate primary too. What a great night all around.