Talk:2014 United States Senate election in Mississippi

Updates Needed
Near the beginning of the article, we are informed that Thad Cochran "is running" for re-election. The election is over.John Paul Parks (talk) 02:05, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Break Republican Primary into a separate article?
With the runoff, I think the GOP primary could be a separate article. Thoughts?Casprings (talk) 19:38, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Race baiting in the 2014 GOP primary
Fliers that contain such rhetoric as "The Tea Party Intends To Prevent You From Voting" were put out and helped Thad Cochran win the race. Initial reports claimed that "Elderly Democrat Women activists" created some of these ads but the evidence for the ads points back to supporters of Thad Cochran.

Radio advertisements of a similar sort were also heard over the air. "Racist Radio Address to Blacks Saying Tea Party Will Steal Your Food Stamps"

96.59.92.70 (talk) 02:34, 15 August 2014 (UTC)


 * I take issue with the reinstatement of that part of the Controversies section. Firstly, Breitbart is not a reliable source. Secondly, to say that "the race card was played" violates the impartial tone provision of WP:NPOV as well as WP:W2W. Moonboy54 (talk) 07:19, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

3O Response: declined - I had to remove the post because of no thorough discussion as required by this process. Feel free to repost it later and also read the instructions for formatting a post here. Sincerely, Ugog Nizdast (talk) 09:35, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Breitbart may not be a "reliable source", but what are our options when most other media are not being more forthcoming on the topic? In short, they are not covering it. So let's verify the facts so that Breitbart is a bystander here.

(1) At this point, the dissembling is laughable from the Barbour crowd, as Henry Barbour has admitted to being the source of money for these advertisements right from the beginning. It was only later that they manufactured "Elderly Democrat Women activists" to try to make it seem like someone else created these ads.

(2) John Fund, a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, asked the following question:  "The Flier That Got Thad Cochran Elected?"

(3) John Fund is not the only one to consider this race baiting, and there was most certainly racial instigation, as the KKK was invoked.

(4) I previously posted several ads(see 1 and 2), and the link just used from the Daily Mail contains several more ads. All of them are designed to use familiar code words. This is called Dog-whistle politics. The ad that Fund puts on display is also a dog whistle.

I suggest we use this as our "third option", because Wikipedia already paves the way for us and tells us that the use of "food stamps" is racial code lingo and it is not a violation of NPOV to call it so. "welfare" is more racial code lingo. Listen to the ads. All of them are dripping with Dog-whistle politics. Its not right that the Thad Cochran crowd cast black people in this light, is it?

96.59.92.70 (talk) 02:07, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

@RJaguar3

The Daily Mail does leave a lot to be desired, however, the fact that they put the actual advertisement on display for anybody to look at and decide for themselves is a strong case for their inclusion. Nonetheless, I changed the source link to go directly to the advertisement and not the article. It would be hard to talk about the scandal involving Cochran's wife without ever mentioning Cochran's wife.

Perhaps the advertisement should be uploaded instead, made a part of the article.

As for the National Review? Try reading the source? John Fund is a well respected journalist. That he just so happened to at this time publish his work in NRO instead of something else is a weak argument.

96.59.92.70 (talk) 00:44, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Food stamps and veification
See Talk:Dog-whistle (politics). Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:55, 29 August 2020 (UTC)