June 25, 2014
Much has been made of the fact that Democratic voters–including African-Americans–helped give six-term Senate incumbent Thad Cochran the narrow margin he needed to beat back a challenge from conservative tea party challenger Chris McDaniel in Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary in Mississippi. But perhaps more important, Mr. Cochran, in cobbling together his victory margin, employed the most basic rules of politics as articulated by one of the great liberal legislators of the 20th Century, former House Speaker Tip O’Neill. Mr. O’Neill counseled that all politics is local, and that voters like to be asked.Please click here to read the full article.