A congressional contest in Missisipi resulted in a loss for the Republicans and sent then on a new route to take distance from the current president. The winner, Travis Childers a conservative Democrat had earlier been linked to an Obama add, and Republicans are now desperate to try to link their own congressional candidates to John McCain rather than President Bush. The Republicans currently have much at risk—as much as 20 seats in the House and six in the Senate. While many say that Missisipi was running critiques of Obama, the Republicans are trying to blame the win on an unfair link of the conservative Democrats to Obama as well as a high turn-out in African American votes.
With three consecutive Republican losses, Republicans are foreshadowing that this will hurt McCain’s chances in the upcoming election. Advisors of McCain are now saying that he will attempt to distinguish himself from both the President and the Congress in which he has served since 1983. It is likely that he will instead focus on criticizing the very same Congress and its excessive spending and resort to diverting the attention to environmental solutions.
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