Travis Childers Wins | GOP Loses In Mississipi As "Anti-Obama" Strategy Fails

After weeks of hammering Mississipi voters with Anti-Obama commercials that smacked of race-batting in an attempt to have voters select their candidate Greg Davis over Dem Travis Childers, the Republican Party was handed what some call a "stunning loss" and what I call a serious misread of the American Condition.

Look, each state in America is a unique region unto itself and to assume that people will think or act the same way in New York as they will in Florida is silly. But it's also dumb to think that what will play in Georgia will work in Florida. It will not.

Travis Childers beat Davis by a three-point margin, 49 percent to 46 percent.

The reason Childers won is that he's just conservative enough to pull middle-democrats and swing-voters, and he's a Democrat who did not walk away from Barack Obama, which got him the Black and liberal Dem vote, too. Plus, the country as a whole is more "left" than it has ever been and President Bush' low approval ratings do not help the GOP.