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Scott Colom Flips Mississippi

Emine Yücel, reporting for TPM: Mississippi prosecutor Scott Colom officially defeated incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) Wednesday night. Colom will be the first Democrat to represent Mississippi in the Senate since 1982 and he will also become the state’s first Black senator in nearly 150 years. 150 years is, needless to say, a long time. The crazy part about that is that Mississippi has…

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