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hookrider, ...the Jim Crow award for 2018 goes to Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) whose toe just hit the back of her throat.

"“And then they remind me that there’s a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don’t want to vote,” Hyde-Smith can be heard telling a small crowd of young people outside her campaign bus in a video taken Nov. 3 and posted on online Thursday. “Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that’s a great idea.”"

Your link - https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senator-says-voter-suppression-131053341.html

And

In Mississippi, Republican concern rises over a U.S. Senate runoff that should have been a romp

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...she spoke of her willingness to sit in the front row of a public hanging if he invited her — words that, in the South, evoked images of lynchings. She has struggled to grapple with the fallout, baffling members of her party and causing even faithful Republicans to consider voting for her opponent, former congressman Mike Espy.

That Espy is attempting to become the state’s first black senator since shortly after the Civil War made her remarks all the more glaring. It has positioned him to take advantage not only of a substantial black turnout but of a potential swell of crossover support from those put off by Hyde-Smith’s campaign.

Espy remains the underdog in the conservative state, but...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-mississippi-republican-concern-rises-over-a-us-senate-runoff-that-should-have-been-a-romp/2018/11/17/fcfa8b24-e9d9-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html?utm_term=.25870358a28d

In a real test for Mississippi voters, you are right. Cindy Hyde-Smith's throwback deny-the-vote remark, and her hanging view 'joke' should be deal breakers.