Political

The other significant American election news

Most of the coverage in the UK of American elections in the last couple of days has focused on Hillary Clinton’s latest primary victory and then John Edwards’s endorsement of Barack Obama.

However, also of significance is the special election (by-election) win chalked up by the Democrats in a formerly solidly Republican Mississippi congressional seat. George W Bush carried the district with more than 60% of the vote in 2004, but in this week’s election Democrat Travis Childers won through.

This makes it three special election victories for the Democrats in a month – all in strongly Republican areas – and suggests that far from struggling to hold on to their dramatic gains from the 2006 elections, they are poised to make even more gains this autumn.

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