Excerpt from article by Esquire's Charles P Pierce on the election of Mississippi Democrat governor candidate Robert Gray. [The Unknown Trucker Candidate of Mississippi].
As hard as it is to believe, things are still getting worse for the Democratic party in Mississippi, which apparently
got completely wrong-footed by political shenanigans only one small step above, "Hey, look! Squirrels!"
- "I'm
calling every political consultant, anthropologist and witch doctor in
the Southeast to help me understand what happened yesterday," said
Brandon Jones, director of the Mississippi Democratic Trust. "… Anybody
who offers a clear-cut formula for yesterday is probably a little ahead
of their skis right now." Political science professor and longtime
observer of state politics Marty Wiseman said, "It's the freakiest thing
I've ever seen. … It's a low point for the Democratic Party, which
doesn't need any more low points. You'd like to think it's a perfectly
pulled off conspiracy by the Republicans, but that's too far a stretch."
- Terry
truck driver and first-time candidate Robert Gray, who goes by "Silent
Knight" as his CB handle, carried 79 of 82 counties in the Democratic
gubernatorial primary. He pulled more than 147,000 votes, or 51 percent,
to presumed frontrunner Vicki Slater's 87,000 votes, or 30 percent, in a
three-way race.
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