Democrats Claim Mandate After Another Special Election Pick-Up

The releases are coming fast and furiously from House Democratic press offices Tuesday night, as Mississippi’s Travis Childers has won his party’s third special House election this cycle.

“Congressman-elect Childers’ message of positive change and bipartisan progress to create jobs, lower gas prices, and improve access to quality health care resonated in Mississippi, just as our candidates’ messages did in Illinois and Louisiana in two recent special elections,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in her statement. “For the third time this year, Democrats have turned a red seat to blue, proving that Americans across our country want real solutions and reject Republicans’ misleading and negative attacks. For the first time in more than 30 years, Democrats have won three special elections in Republican seats in one cycle.”

House Democratic campaign chairman Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) also noted the historic nature of Childers’s win.

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President Bush easily won IL-14, LA-06, and MS-01.