Jesus fucking Christ.
Mississippi Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom has flipped Forrest County, a once reliably Republican County named for Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Why does it take Mississippi so long to count votes?
One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi…
The elections commission has run out of fingers to count on
They can take off their shoes.
Have to double check each one because half of them can’t read. /s
Democratic challenger Scott Colom expanded his narrow lead over Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi Senate race on Friday afternoon.
As of 5:30 p.m. ET, Colom led Hyde-Smith by 2,498 votes, out of a total of 953,222 counted, with an estimated 97% of the votes in, according to the Associated Press.
That was 685 votes more than Colom’s lead over Hyde-Smith when the day began.
