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Cochran was particularly vulnerable is not because he had been in senate for so long and in congress for so long but because he was an old school appropriator that he never backed down from defending the fact that ear marks were a good thing. never voted for any of those ear mark bands that went forward and he sort of stayed stubborn on that issue. >> another side that hasn't been explored too much. mississippi, i think nine straight presidential elections mississippi has voted for a republican. i think 1972 would be the last time mississippi elected a democrat to the u.s. senate. you do not t...