Kingfish diggs up some juicy gossip about Bryant vs. Hosemann

Kingfish
“Mississippi Republicans who have struggled long and hard to get a Voter ID bill passed only to be backstabbed when in sight of victory.”
-ROM

Sens. Merle Flowers of Southaven, Joey Fillingane of Sumrall and Billy Hewes of Gulfport and Lt. Governor Phil Bryant should be ASHAMED!

Sens. Merle Flowers of Southaven, Joey Fillingane of Sumrall and Billy Hewes of Gulfport and Lt. Governor Phil Bryant should be ASHAMED! Political posturing and gamesmanship is not acceptable when it comes to something as important as Voter ID.
We were so close and then we killed it? What gives?
-ROM
Hosemann upset over [...]

Hosemann stumps for votes in……..IRAQ???

http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=video/video_show.php&id=46628#
This is quite unreal.  Our friend Gilbert is in Iraq promoting the vote.  Interview from Kuwait with WLBT.
Certainly worth a view
-ROM

Gossip on Trent Lott’s Seat

One of my lobbyist friends gave me this round up of what most consider to be the Haley’s Short list for appointment to the U.S. Senate. 
I can not confirm any of this but here is the latest Jackson GOSSIP!
Chip Pickering – Although he may not want the seat, looking at a Gubernatorial run in 2010, [...]

ROM nails the statewide races with 4% Margin of Error

We are very proud of how we did in our “Pick em” challenge we NAILED the race for Governor within .3%
We went 7 for 8 on the winners picking Anderson to beat Chaney which obviously never happened
Listed are our predictions followed by actual outcome.  We did purty good I would say.
ROM PREDICTION:
Governor
Haley Barbour: 58.4%
John Arthur [...]

Mississippi Statewide Results with 99% Reporting

Mississippi
November 07, 2007 – 12:50PM ET
Governor – General
1898 of 1899 Precincts Reporting – 99%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Barbour, Haley (i) GOP 415,103 58%
Eaves, John Dem 299,763 42%

Lieutenant Governor – General
1898 of 1899 Precincts Reporting – 99%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Bryant, Phil GOP 416,057 59%
Franks, Jamie Dem 292,333 41%

Secretary of State – General
1898 of 1899 Precincts Reporting – 99%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Hosemann, Delbert GOP 410,603 59%
Smith, Robert Dem 291,248 41%

Attorney General – General
1897 of 1899 Precincts Reporting – 99%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Hood, Jim (i) Dem 421,137 60%
Hopkins, [...]

John Goodman’s Fearless Forcast and Hosemann endorsement

John Goodman’s Fearless Forcast (link)

Blogger John Goodman at PearlMississippiCPA has some good predictions out. We really enjoy his blog as a whole.
We are collecting blogger predictions here so we can go back and decide who gets the “ROM Pick’em award” for 2007, that will go to the blogger who most closely predicts Tomorrow’s outcome.
All [...]

David Hampton Predictions 2007

David Hampton Predictions
Hattip MS Smitty
I’ve tried not to make political predictions, since I predicted Jimmy Carter would beat Ronald Reagan in Mississippi. So many people cut that column out and sent it to me with the HA HA HA note, I think circulation went up. I kept them as a reminder not to do predictions [...]

Columbus Dispatch Releases Statewide Endorsements

Columbus Commercial Dispatch Releases Statewide Endorsements 
Our choices (11/5)
Endorsements
Governor: Haley Barbour, Republican
Lt. Governor: Jamie Franks, Democrat
Sec. of State: Delbert Hosemann, Republican
Atty. Gen.: Jim Hood, Democrat
State auditor: Mike Sumrall, Democrat
State treasurer: Tate Reeves, Republican
Ag Comm.: Rickey Cole, Democrat
Ins. Comm.: Mike Chaney, Republican
With the statewide elections only a day away, it’s going to be up to the [...]

More 2007 Predictions

Common Sense FTPW has on-record predictions
Our buddy Kingmaker is on record for tomorrow.
Governor: Strong hold GOP (Barbour)
Lt. Gov: Strong hold GOP (Bryant)
Atty Gen: Strong hold Dem (Hood)
Sec. of State: Gain GOP (Hosemann)
Treasurer: Strong hold GOP (Reeves)
State Auditor: Hold GOP (Pickering)
Ins. Commish: Gain GOP (Chaney)
Ag. Commish: Gain Dem (Push in reality) (Cole)
He has some [...]