{"id":610,"date":"2008-05-14T07:42:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T07:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/05\/wright-attack-fails-in-mississ.html"},"modified":"2008-05-14T07:42:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T07:42:31","slug":"wright-attack-fails-in-mississ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/wright-attack-fails-in-mississ.html","title":{"rendered":"Wright Attack Fails in Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"wright6.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/wright6.jpg\" width=\"118\" height=\"89\"style=\"float:left; margin: 5px;\" \/>Mississippi Democratic congressional candidate Travis Childers, whose Republican opponent tried to lash him to Rev. Jeremiah Wright by way of Barack Obama&#8217;s endorsement of Childers&#8211;a tenuous connection, to be sure&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/childers-victory-gives-dems-a-third-straight-takeover-2008-05-13.html\">won his special election last night<\/a>. It&#8217;s the third straight special election House pickup for the Dems, and it came in a district that George W. Bush took  by 25-points in 2004.The Wright ad against Childers also invoked Obama&#8217;s remarks about small town Americans clinging to guns and religion. So two faith-based lines of attack against Obama and the Democrats are failing in one of the nation&#8217;s most culturally conservative districts. 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