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Putting Democrats’ midterm wins into perspective
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The scale of Democrats’ wins in last week’s midterm elections is still coming into focus. This week, after the final ballots were counted, a Democrat was elected senator to in Mississippi. Scott Colom will be the first Democrat elected U.S. senator in Mississippi since 1982, and the first Black man elected statewide in Mississippi since Reconstruction, after the Civil War.
The scale of Democrats’ wins in last week’s midterm elections is still coming into focus. This week, after the final ballots were counted, a Democrat was elected senator to in Mississippi. Scott Colom will be the first Democrat elected U.S. senator in Mississippi since 1982, and the first Black man elected statewide in Mississippi since Reconstruction, after the Civil War.
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Putting Democrats’ midterm wins into perspective
Scott Colom’s win in Mississippi is just one of several that have been hard for Democrats to process.
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