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.
All the “one vote doesn’t matter” people have been awfully quiet the last few days
We had one in Canada that was decided by a single vote.
It didn’t stop the bots from pushing a “you don’t matter” spiel.
The Mississippi race and the Alaska race are so crazy. If they both go to the democrat that’s 56 seats in the senate. That would mean only 4 republicans need to defect to beat the filibuster for bills and 10 to remove a president after being impeached by the house.
The filibuster is only there to preserve the status quo. Its not a time for it to exist, and it should not be made part of congresses rules in January. We need vast reform, not status quo.
Can we count on Fetterman to vote with the Democrats?
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10 to remove a president after being impeached by the house.
That’s still a huge longshot. Only 7 Republican senators voted to convict Trump, the first time around and of those, only 2
3are still in Congress (Romney, Murkowski, Cassidy). The rest of the remaining 44 Republican seats have only gotten more red since then, plus you still have Fetterman who’s spoken out against impeachment in the past.EDIT: forgot Romney didn’t run again
I wouldn’t be surprised if more are willing to go against trump going forward. They can see the writing on the walls, they know there time is almost up if they don’t start putting there names on some popular bills. Trump has lost his momentum and his charisma is gone. This cult is hopefully beginning to break.
This is what I was going to say. I actually don’t care whether we impeach or not (unless we know we have the votes). But we do have a better chance now after a huge wave election. This is a big wakeup call to the GOP. their thugs in purple or purple leaning states are gonna be looking for ways to distance themselves from Trump
They have absolutely not gotten more red, almost no where in the entire country has gotten more red. 7 republicans crossed the aisle when doing so was still considered career suicide, it’s not anymore, we know this because almost no seats have gotten more red, many have completely reversed back to pre-Trump numbers with Dems on the national tipping point. 10 republicans when democrats are more popular than ever watching their base erode from under their feet is not something impossible
I bet Ty Pinkins feels really happy about himself right now.
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.
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.
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.
He’s world famous now, so yeah…
It looks like his campaign site is offline currently:
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.
It’s work is done. Let it rest now.
Because he tried to siphon Republican votes?
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.
He was only ahead by 43 votes three hours ago, so he’s starting to break away.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/11/03/us/elections/results-mississippi-us-senate.html
1,138 votes ahead as of 18 minutes ago.
EDIT: Looking at that map, the western areas, which IIRC from looking at past demographic maps are the more-black parts of Mississippi, are the areas that went for him.
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Yeah:
https://mcimaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mississippi-LD-by-Race.png
One point that Nate Silver was talking about in his post-election analysis—not speaking about Mississippi in particular— was that there was strong turnout from black voters in 2026, like 80% of that typical in a presidential-year election. By midterm election standards, that’s good. So that might have been enough to get him over the top.
Does kind of highlight how it’s important to go out and vote…
EDIT2: Ah, yeah. Someone else in this thread linked to a transcript off NPR, and they were saying the same thing about black voter turnout elsewhere in the text, there specific to the Scott Colom result:
What about the demographics of Mississippi made this possible?
FOWLER: Well, Mississippi is a state that voted for President Trump by 24 points, but at the same time, it has the highest share of Black voters in the country, closer to 40%. And you had, like you see in other places in the South, a surge in Black voter turnout. You had maybe a little bit less Republican turnout of people staying home that would normally support the Republican candidate, and you just had this shift and this swing where we are now talking about dozens of votes separating Mississippi electing the first Black senator since Reconstruction.
Absolutely wild if Mississippi goes blue.
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Apparently the last Democratic senator from Mississippi was John C. Stennis, but his entry into office predated the Civil Rights Act and the Southern Strategy and party realignment; he was a product of the Fifth Party System.
The second most recent was James Eastland, and it looks like the same sort of thing applies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Eastland
James Oliver Eastland (November 28, 1904 – February 19, 1986) was an American attorney, plantation owner, and politician from Mississippi. A Democrat, he served in the United States Senate in 1941 and again from 1943 until his resignation in late 1978. Eastland was a segregationist who led the Southern resistance against racial integration during the civil rights movement, often speaking of African Americans as “an inferior race”.[1] Eastland has been called the “Voice of the White South” and the “Godfather of Mississippi Politics”.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Stennis
Along with fellow Mississippi senator James Eastland, Stennis was a zealous supporter of racial segregation. He and Eastland supported the Dixiecrat ticket in 1948 headed by Strom Thurmond,[2] and signed the Southern Manifesto, which called for massive resistance to the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. He also voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
FOWLER: There are still some ballots to be counted, and there are provisional ballots that need to be clear. It’s going to take days before the deadline is met for those to be taken care of. Here’s the thing about Mississippi. There are no runoffs for federal races like this. It’s the rare state with no recount mechanism or threshold, and there’s not really any other way to contest the election. So when it’s done, it’s done.
(emphasis mine)This says that there can be recounts via court order, but that there is no automatic recount, so I dunno.
https://www.kcra.com/article/newsom-commutes-548-california-death-sentences/74348779
Mississippi does not have a recount provision in state law, and there’s no automatic recount process. But a challenger can seek a court order for a recount.
Losing my mind waiting because getting Mississippi would be so fuckin funny on top of what’s already happened
I suspect that that image of Scott Colom grinning ear-to-ear is pretty accurate. I mean, when he started that race, his odds must have been extremely long.
Even at the election, looks like he was considered a long shot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Colom
Despite polling aggregators predicting sub-10 percent chances of Colom winning the seat, the race was too close to call on election night or the next morning.[64][65]
