Democrats are on a roll with three Congressional wins. The latest win in in northern Mississippi's first Congressional District which is across the state line from Memphis, TN.

According to Congressional Quarterly (CQ):

Democrat Travis W. Childers won the House special election runoff Tuesday in Mississippi’s 1st District, defeating Republican Greg Davis by a sound 54 percent to 46 percent with all precincts reporting. * * * The win by Childers (CHILL-derrs) also boosted the Democrats to a 236-seat majority to 199 Republicans.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000002838030

* * * President Bush was favored by 62 percent of 1st District voters in 2004, and Republican Roger Wicker â€" who in January vacated the seat to accept a U.S. Senate appointment â€" won a seventh and final House victory with 66 percent in 2006.

The 3 Democratic Congressional victories are:

1. March 8, 2008,
Illinois, 8th Congressional District,
Bill Foster(D)
- seat previously held by former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert(R)

2. May 3, 2008,
Louisiana, 6th Congressional District,
Don Cazayoux(D)

3. May 13, 2008
Mississippi, 1st Congressional District,
Travis Childers(D)

Victory! Victory! Victory!

Go DCCC!

And it dealt another stinging psychological as well as tangible blow to the Republican Party, which poured well more than $1 million into its unsuccessful effort to salvage the seat and now looks far more likely to suffer further losses in the November general elections than to score the 19-seat net gain it needs to reclaim the majority. * * * The national GOP went even further to try to save the Mississippi seat, with Vice President Dick Cheney shuttling in for an election-eve rally for GOP nominee Davis in a futile effort to pump up turnout among the district’s typically dominant Republican base. * * * The DCCC’s $2 million in independent expenditures aimed at capturing the 1st District seat actually were much greater than the NRCC’s spending, but the Democratic committee is much better funded and could better afford the spending spree. The Republican committee’s wasted seven-figure expenditures on its three special election defeats have left it with little remaining cash to put into bids to take over Democratic seats in this fall’s election and to play defense against other strong Democratic takeover bids.

Jim Callahan
Orlando, FL