In 2020, Mississippi joined Georgia as the only other state that mandated runoff elections when statewide candidates did not garner a majority in a general election.
The U.S. Senate election is a long shot for Scott Colom, in part, because Mississippians do not defeat incumbent senators. There is no better job security than holding one of Mississippi's two U.S. Senate seats.
The argument seems to be whether preventing be a few instances of voter fraud is more important than election access. How many people should be denied or hindered in their right to vote to prevent rare occurrences of voter fraud?
Comparisons have been made to how Mississippi politicians have spent tobacco lawsuit settlement money and how they are now spending opioid lawsuit settlement funds.
Mississippi's working poor have been hit with rising health insurance exchange costs and no Medicaid expansion, meaning they have less access to healthcare than most Americans.
The president likes to make himself the center of attention regardless of his actual involvement. The World Cup this year and the opening of the Two Mississippi Museums in 2017 are examples of that.
“Death by Lightning” tells the story of President James Garfield and how his assassination spurred civil service protections that have been weakened by the current Supreme Court.
Redistricting special sessions are not new in Mississippi. In a 2001 redistricting special session, Democrats held the power but did not deliver the results that national Democrats wanted.
