The Greatest Ever Political Ad That Helped Scott Colom Win Mississippi
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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
Newsweek 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.
The Greatest Ever Political Ad That Helped Scott Colom Win Mississippi
You’re here55 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
51 newsroomsCooling- Reports
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Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (10 in the last three hours, 12 in the three before).
First with it: Talking Points Memo, 22 min before anyone else.
Reported by 51 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).
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