Mississippi Runoff Tuesday-- KKK For McDaniel, Brett Farve For Cochran

Amazing new Gallup poll was released yesterday. Gallup's analysis: "Americans' confidence in Congress has sunk to a new low. Seven percent of Americans say they have 'a great deal' or 'quite a lot' of confidence in Congress as an American institution, down from the previous low of 10% in 2013. This confidence is starkly different from the 42% in 1973, the first year Gallup began asking the question… Americans' current confidence in Congress is not only the lowest on record, but also the lowest Gallup has recorded for any institution in the 41-year trend. This is also the first time Gallup has ever measured confidence in a major U.S. institution in the single digits. Currently, 4% of Americans say they have a great deal of confidence in Congress, and 3% have quite a lot of confidence. About one-third of Americans report having 'some' confidence, while half have 'very little,' and another 7% volunteer that they have 'none.'"

The next big test will be Tuesday-- in 4 days-- when Mississippi Republicans go to the polls for a primary runoff. Yesterday, a well-known Mississippi racist-- a pretty typical McDaniel supporter-- had an $800 contribution to McDaniel's campaign returned to him. Carl Ford was the Laurel-based (like McDaniel) lawyer for KKK Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers and is active in the League of the South, a vicious Confederate hate group. Ford was a member of the KKK in Laurel himself, which helps explain his affinity to McDaniel. He says he's backing McDaniel because McDaniel, like himself, is adamantly opposed to immigration reform. Other than a couple of contributions he made to ex-Republican-turned ConservaDem Jim Webb, all of Ford's political contributions have been to blatantly racist Republicans, including one not returned on October 15, 2013 to McDaniel. Other GOP racists who have been happy to take Ford's money include Chip Pickering, Alan Nunnelee, Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Pat Buchanan, Christine O'Donnell, and, of course, both the Republican Party of Mississippi and the wonderful NRCC. None of them have returned the KKK cash.

Meanwhile, the Chamber of Commerce got former Southern Miss and Green Bay Packer quarterback Brett Favre to endorse Cochran this week (ad is up top). Who is he appealing to? Who are all the ads from both sides appealing to? Mississippi Republicans, of course. Want to know what they're like? Watch the video below. That's what they're like. That's who they are. And they are also the targets of Mississippi's brand spanking new voter-ID law which was passed to prevent African Americans and poor people from voting.

Mississippi will use its new voter-identification law for the first time Tuesday, culminating a long political fight in a state with a troubled past of voting rights suppression.

…“Mississippi is one big small town,” Hosemann has said. “When we cast our ballot on Election Day, there is a high probability of knowing the poll workers in the precinct. However, voter ID is not discretionary.”

Lawmakers had squabbled about voter ID since the mid-1990s, with supporters saying it would prevent people from voting under others’ names and opponents saying there has been scant evidence of that type of fraud. Critics also said that an ID requirement would disproportionately hurt minorities, the poor and older voters.

Voters approved a voter ID constitutional amendment in 2011, and legislators put the mandate into law in 2012. Until last summer, Mississippi and other states with a history of racial discrimination had to get federal approval for any changes to elections laws. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling erased that mandate and cleared the way for Mississippi to use its voter ID law, which had been awaiting Justice Department clearance.