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How Thad Cochran Pulled Off a Win Over Chris McDaniel (Simple, Really)

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No trick strategies were necessary to push the incumbent over the Tea Party challenger in Mississippi. Instead, hard legwork and reaching out to past voters got it done.

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For a while on Election Night, I thought the race might come down to my old paper route. That was June 3, on what turned out to be the first primary in the Mississippi U.S.

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