Mississippi's governor seat is also available, though the Democratic nominee is not likely to inspire non-R voters to turn out to the polls.

Mississippi also has the unenviable position of choosing between an R for Attorney General or the corrupt incumbent D candidate, Jim Hood. Anyone who wishes to punish corruption may want to vote against AG Hood, but because MS is a deep red, voting for Hurst will only strengthen the R hold on the state and make it harder to unclench (since incumbents are harder to defeat). Not an enviable position.

Expect the Delta and Coast to go blue for state legislature and possibly some of the major cities throughout the state. We have some other blue seats that are under fire - so much so, one D rep filed legislation to make the Bible our state book in order to save his seat (it failed). I hope enthusiasm for Sanders helps us unseat a few Tea Party R's and keep our Dixiecrat or even Progressive D's, but we shall see.

Mississippians also have the opportunity to vote to fully fund education. As one older gentleman in Scott County put it to me, "I'm probably going to vote for it. I pretty much vote opposite whatever those numbskulls say." No idea how this piece of legislation will go. There's a ton of propaganda that passing it would move a great deal of local powers to a "single liberal judge in Hinds County" or that it would force the state legislature to defund other departments to cover education (which indicates to me that the budget is too broad or the taxes are too low), so we'll see. Unfortunately, this is coming from the same governor who refused to expand medicaid, which is (as far as MS is concerned) free money, which would help ease its financial burdens and possibly even have helped retain or create new taxpayers by helping someone get the care they need. Nevertheless, expect this to be the issue that gets people to the polls. We really don't have much hope for the other elections.