Hyde-Smith (R) wins the contest to occupy the open Mississippi Senate seat, beating former Ag Secretary Espy (D); WaPo reports the margin to be about 8%.
So I think this shrinkage in victory margin in Senatorial race (recent history has the GOP winning by 20 points, remember) may be the political version of Hyde-Smith breaking a mirror: 7 more years of bad luck for Mississippi. The base won’t be badly shaken enough to start reconsidering. They’ll just keep doing whatever it is they’re doing, no matter how destructive it is, and that’s just about it.
Tough to be them right now.
