It's Official: Senate Special Election will be in November

In a decision that was of little surprise to most the MS Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that Governor Barbour's interpretation of Miss Code Sec. 23-15-855 was more correct than the interpretation of A.G. Hood. We had a bit of discussion of the events leading up to this decision here, here and here.

Looking at this politically I really don't know if this would have been the best overall outcome for the Governor as if Obama wins the Democratic nomination for President and if McCain is the Republican nominee you may see a great push in democrats, mainly thinking minorities, while a great apathy of Republicans can be projected in Mississippi. I'm not willing to say a state that voted 60 - 40 for the Republican candidate in 2004 will go Blue but I think an election with those 2 candidates would be much, much closer than the last Presidential election, and if it is close the Dem candidate, most likely Musgrove might have a chance against Roger Wicker.