Lessons on Scott Colom’s Win From Mississippi’s First Black Senator
- Newsrooms
- 58
- Last 3 hours
- 4 reports
- Momentum
- Slowing
8 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Slowing. Likely 62 to 64 newsrooms by 12:44pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
One of the ten biggest stories of the past week (number 6 of 4171).
1Democrat Scott Colom has unseated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to become Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction. The result is a stunning flip for Democrats in a deep-red state where they last won a Senate election in 1982, and it brings the Senate Democratic Caucus to at least 5
Slate didn’t include a summary, so this is Roll Call’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Scott Colom
Scott Winston Colom is an American politician, lawyer, and jurist who is a United States senator-elect from Mississippi. A member of the Democratic Party, Colom has served since 2016 as district attorney for the 16th Judicial District of Mississippi.4
The bigger story: Colom
4 developments since Sat 7 Nov. 2 more since this one.
Even the state of Mississippi
You’re here62 newsrooms. Linked by Mississippi, Colom, Senate, race, nailbiter
- History Made: AP, CNN Call Mississippi Senate Race for Colom
1 newsroom. Linked by Mississippi, Senate, Colom, history, made
- Democrats rally around Colom's historic Mississippi victory
2 newsrooms. Linked by Colom, Mississippi, victory, wins, race
The story so far
58 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 105
- Newsrooms and sources
- 58
- Last 3 hours
- 4
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (4 in the last three hours, 8 in the three before).
First with it: Talking Points Memo, 22 min before anyone else.
Reported by 58 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The Washington Times and The Hindu (the same headline); NPR and Deseret News (the same headline); The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine); NewsNation and The Daily Caller (the same headline); The Straits Times and CNA (the same headline).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Reports |
|---|---|
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 0 |
| Tue | 0 |
| Wed | 0 |
| Thu | 3 |
| Today | 102 |

