Top Ten Mississippi Counties by Total Votes Cast
Top Ten Mississippi Counties by Fewest Votes Counted to Most
AP knows best. I haven't done the math for all the counties. Just eye-balling it I don't see a reasonable path to victory for Cindy-Pick-Another-Protein. The unofficial Publocc prediction is that Colum's lead will only grow as all the outstanding ballots are counted and Mississippi will indeed turn blue.
JERUSALEM (AP) — In the space of about 24 hours, U.S. President Donald Trumpsuggested cutting off aid to Israel, a staunch critic of Israel won a key Senate race and the vice president partly blamed his own party’s landslide defeat on U.S.-Israel relations.
The rupture caused by Israel’s devastating military campaign in Gaza and the jointly launched war with Iran has shredded bipartisan U.S. support for Israel that goes back decades. Democrats are fiercely dividedover Israel, and Republicans are increasingly critical of its actions.
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On the left, Americans increasingly see Israel as an international pariah because of the war in Gaza and violent settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. On the right, some see Israel as having undermined Trump’s “America First” pledge, accusing it of dragging the U.S. into a costly and unnecessary war with Iran.
“Something fundamental has shifted,” said Michael Oren, a historian and former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. “My working assumption is that the call to cut off military aid is just the beginning.”
It is still unclear if Trump’s remarks on ending some $4 billion in annual military aid to Israel, made in an interview with Fox News, represent official policy or were just a last-ditch bid to sway voters on Election Day. The White House did not respond to a request for more details.
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Hours after Trump’s remarks, election results poured in, showing a massive wave of Democratic victories across the country, including in the crucial swing state of Michigan, where Abdul El-Sayed handily defeated his Republican rival. El-Sayed accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza, allegations it vehemently denies.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance, seen as a possible front-runner to succeed Trump, has sought to distance himself from the Iran war and has adopted a more critical tone toward Israel.
In a postmortem posted on social media the morning after the election, Vance said an unnamed pollster, “one of the smartest people I know in politics,” told him Republicans need to do four things to bring voters back: “1) End the war 2) Focus on cost of living/inflation 3) Put America First 4) Change our relationship to Israel.”
“This clearly doesn’t bode well,” said Chuck Freilich, a former deputy national security adviser in Israel. ...
For decades, the U.S. has provided billions of dollars in aid and advanced weaponry to Israel while shielding it from criticism at the U.N. and other international forums.
...Trump has also approved billions of dollars in weapons sales to Israel. An academic study last year found that the U.S. had provided $21.7 billion in aid to Israel since the start of the war in Gaza.
Michael Singh, managing director at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said a U.S. aid cutoff would “definitely leave the Israelis scrambling, and it would be a significant unilateral change in the U.S.-Israel relationship.”
Israel would have to finance its own purchases of American-made weapons, either by borrowing money or raising taxes, said Singh, who was the senior Middle East director on the National Security Council under former U.S. President George W. Bush.
Netanyahu has said he wants to wean Israel off U.S. military aid over the next 10 years. The goal would be to transition to a more balanced partnership, in which Israel would no longer rely on American taxpayer dollars while sharing its own considerable technological and intelligence capabilities.
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A new government led by Netanyahu’s main rival, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, could take some action to help blunt the criticism, like cracking down on rampant settler violence. But it would largely continue the policies toward the Palestinians and the wider region that have angered many Americans.
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Brad Lander, a newly elected Democratic representative from New York who was briefly detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank last month, said Lapid was missing the point.
“As someone who won a seat in Congress last night, and who cares about Israel: you’re not listening to what American voters — Jewish and non-Jewish — are saying. We aren’t starving for a barnstorming tour. We’re hungry to see respect for international law and human rights,” Lander wrote.
Freilich, the former Israeli security official, said that if Netanyahu ultimately remains in office, “the downward spiral will increase and maybe even get worse.”
If Eisenkot prevails, “then he can begin a process which is going to be maybe even generational. It’s certainly 10 to 20 years to undo the damage that (Netanyahu) has caused,” Freilich said.
I don't think I disagree with anything those quoted said.
As Embiid goes, so go the "Sixers"? Tonight Joel only had six points, all from the free throw line! My God, he was 0/9 (0/2) from the field. One Philly fan wrote on fanzine, "Embiid had his worst stretch of the season to start this game, playing with no lift or life...", and "no lift" has been a telltale of Joel's late season fatigue. His health has been cruel to him since he entered the Association and is at the root of the "As Embiid goes, so go the 'Sixers'" skepticism. He's averaging 19.6 and 10, but on only 41.3% shooting. If it was most anyone else it would be chalked up to an off night. But with Joel, you wonder.
Secret Service arrests man near White House after he said he heard voices telling him to kill Trump
AP
I have Stendhal Syndrome.
I have overjoy Overchoice.
I am losing my fucking mind.
Wiles’s resignation comes after Republicans suffered embarrassing losses in the midterms, with Democrats taking control of the House, Senate, governor mansions, and many state and local seats. The president is reportedly blaming Wiles for the debacle.
Let me see if I can understand this:
1) Trumpie and Vance blamed the midterm debacle on the Iran debacle.
2) Trumpie is blaming Wiles for the midterm debacle.
3) Stephen Miller got Wiles' job for being an Iran dove.
Ergo, doesn't it ergo that Wiles was an Iran hawk?
Mr. Miller’s pitch for the job as the gatekeeper to the president, according to people who heard it, was that the president needed to wind down the Iran war, a conflict that the president’s core supporters viewed as a betrayal.
Are we to take from that that Susie Wiles was an Iran hawk and that Trumpie listened to her on warmaking?
Nov. 6, 2026, 2:11 p.m. ET
13 minutes ago
David ChenNational reporter
Arizona Democrats have won the State Senate and State House of Representatives, according to The Associated Press. Coupled with Gov. Katie Hobbs’s re-election victory, Democrats will now have a trifecta — both legislative chambers and the governor’s office — for the first time since the mid-1960s. In fact, the Democrats have not had an outright majority in any legislative chamber in Arizona since the early 1990s.
(https://www.nytimes.com/by/mack-liederman)
Nov. 6, 2026, 12:20 p.m. ET
2 hours ago
Mack Liederman (https://www.nytimes.com/by/mack-liederman)Breaking news reporter
Democrats are now claiming their victories include a majority of all statehouse seats across the country.
More than 500 seats in state legislatures were flipped blue in Tuesday’s midterms, according to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the arm of the party focused on state-level races.
Democrats have new trifectas — control of the governor’s office and both statehouse chambers — in at least Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. That puts the party in a powerful position to pass state laws.
REALIGNMENT TIME!
To me, that means Scott Colum is going to win. The new count total: Colum +2,010 raw, 49.1%-48.8%. AP has not called it yet.
AP Decision Team updates
Nov. 05, 11:22 AM
Colom holds a narrow lead over Hyde-Smith as vote-counting in Mississippi enters its second full day. State law does not allow for recounts. And although both candidates remain below the 50% mark, Mississippi does not hold runoff elections for U.S. Senate races. Several thousand provisional ballots are expected to be counted in the race and the state has until Nov. 10 to resolve those ballots.
