LIVE AT FIVE: 06.06.14

As I mentioned in the previous burger post, one of my objectives in visiting Las Vegas this week was to check out a couple of hamburger joints not found in my Washington DC stomping grounds: the infamous Heart Attack Grill, and the wildly popular In-N-Out Burger. There were also some other suggestions, but in the heat (sic) of the moment I completely forgot what they were. Anyway…I went forth in the noonday sun today to find a suitable location for the burrow I’ll be occupying next June, and having completed that task, headed out Sahara Boulevard on the bus to find the nearest In-N-Out.

Micah 1:7? How appropriate.

A lot of pixels have been lavished by a lot of fanboys and fangirls on how great In-N-Out Burger is; how it uses only fresh ingredients prepared to your order; how its “secret menu” is so awesome. At the risk of enraging said fanboys, I frankly didn’t think it was all that. I ordered a double-double protein style (no bun) and sampled the fries (for SCIENCE!), and to be honest, neither the burger nor the fries impressed me. It’s not that there was anything bad about either one, but they just didn’t live up to the hype. Comparing them to Five Guys, I give the advantage to the latter: In-N-Out does not have bacon, their fries are inferior to Five Guys’ peanut-fried version, and Five Guys has more variety in the available Coke product.

In fact, I was so underwhelmed by In-N-Out that the minute I stepped off the Deuce at Fremont Street, I returned to the Heart Attack Grill, where I’d had dinner on Tuesday after arriving from Dulles.

They’re not kidding, you guys.

One of the reasons I like Carl’s Jr./Hardees is their in-your-face response to the food Puritans who think we all ought to be eating local-source organically-grown artisanal tofu, and the Heart Attack Grill turns that attitude up to 11. Nothing, absolutely nothing on the menu is good for you in the traditional sense*, and the staff takes great relish in dishing up the Bypass Burgers -available up to Octuple Bypass Size with eight half-pound patties, cheese, chili, onions, tomatoes, and an optional 40 slices of bacon- Flatliner Fries cooked in lard, milkshakes with the world’s highest butterfat content, beer, booze, unfiltered cigarettes, wine served in intravenous bags…it just goes on and on, set against a backdrop of hilarious movie parody posters and a “Last Supper” style mural in which Dr. Jon serves a quadruple bypass burger and flatliner fries to his fast food mascot apostles. Diners are provided with hospital gowns on entry, which is helpful if you’re a messy eater; patients who fail to respond to treatment (i.e., not finishing their burger) are spanked by the “nurses” or “doctors” on duty as appropriate. And those nurses have some quality arms, let me tell you – not from personal experience, mind you; I finished my burgers. Oh yes – diners who weigh in at 350 or more pounds get their Bypass Burger for free with purchase of beverage, and since I am a wombat of bulk, if not definition, I took full advantage of this – but tipped as if I had paid for the burgers, because I’m not a schmuck.

So I don’t think I’ll be going back to In-N-Out, but I think after I move to Vegas next year, I’m going to be spending a few meals with Dr. Jon, Chief Nurse Tracy, and the rest of the crew.

*They do have bottled water, which may be the one thing on the menu that nutritionists would agree is good for you.

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Category: Bacon, Culture, Nevada

Why Did the Patriarchy Make @JustineHarman Write About Her Boobs?

Posted on | June 5, 2014 | 69 Comments

The #fem2 hashtag is Twitter’s shorthand for feminism and, while surfing it last night, I came across a column by Justine Harman, an editor for the web site of Elle magazine:

Rihanna’s Boobs Make Me
Feel Better About My Body

OK, then. This is an issue feminists call “body image,” which isn’t really an issue so much as it is an excuse for women to write silly columns about their feelings. Justine Harman is super-silly:

So here’s the deal: I’m kind of known for my boobs. Though I’m 5’3″ (on a good day), my breasts are somewhere between a 34C and a 32D and naturally possess what a high school classmate once called “indomitable turgor pressure.” Translation: My cups, most definitely, runneth over. As a result, I spent all of high school and college wearing low cut halter tops with little or no support. And I beamed with pride whenever someone suggested my teeming décolletage was fake. “Touch them!” I’d demand of guys and girls alike. But as I’ve gotten older, Father Time hasn’t been so much cruel as he’s been fair to my cleavage.
At 29, I can no longer wear a flimsy tank without also wearing a granny bandeau. . . .

(Gravity is a weapon of the patriarchy!)

And though I’m learning to adjust to my slightly less-than-Jessica-Rabbit silhouette, it seems that the rest of the world would rather not. The ideal breasts — regardless of the natural, biological progression of the feminine form — are perfectly symmetrical, gravity defying, and Blake Lively-esque. . . .

(Whose “ideal” is this? Who is Blake Lively? Could Elle please post side-by-side comparison photos of Blake Lively’s “gravity defying” breasts and Justine Harman’s pendulous udders, so readers could vote on which we like better? I don’t know if that would strike a blow against patriarchy, but it would probably drive a lot of traffic.)

So, last week, when Scout Willis launched her topless protest against nipple censors and Monday night, when Rihanna proudly displayed her lovely, but very real, rack in that dazzling Adam Selman getup at the CFDAs, I breathed a sigh of relief. That’s right: Rihanna’s body makes me feel better about my own. . . .

(Y’know, I saw the Scout Willis topless thing on Twitter last week and had no comment other than to express a fear that John McClane might show up and kill me if I said anything rude. But my lame Die Hard joke didn’t get any laughs, so . . . Anyway, back to Rihanna’s boobs and Justine Harman’s “body image” issues.)

Whether or not we realize it, from a very young age girls are on the receiving end of some pretty mixed breast messaging. From corseted Disney princesses, to Christina Ricci binding her burgeoning bosoms in Now and Then, to Thora Birch bravely revealing her uneven pair in American Beauty, we’re told that boobs are simultaneously objects of adulation and humiliation. And due to my lack of understanding about how I should feel, I’m still not sure which of the following incidents was more scarring: the time I was busted for stuffing my bra in the eighth grade, or the time a guy I knew in college pulled down my tube top, under which I was most definitely not wearing a bra, after he lost a game of beer pong.
Both situations made me feel embarrassed for something I wasn’t fully aware of yet: my inherent need for approval from men. . . .

(ZOOM! Out of the sky, deus ex machina, the patriarchy makes its dramatic appearance. The problem is not that Justine Harman takes too seriously the “messages” she perceives in pop culture, neither is her problem the vapid emptiness of her soul, nor even are we permitted to ask why she was wearing a tube top while playing beer pong with guys in college. No, ultimately the problem is men, and Justine Harman’s need for male approval.)

At age 13, I wasn’t mad that a girlfriend had outed me for wearing toilet paper crescents in my bra but rather that I was a late bloomer. I was pissed that the guys in my class weren’t passing notes about my feminine assets. And instead of being livid that I was assaulted at a party, I was upset that my “friend” didn’t like me enough to respect me. It never occurred to me that maybe he just didn’t respect all women.

(You see how “the personal is political”? Justine Harman’s “late bloomer” insecurities were manifested as a tendency toward exhibitionistic display — “Look at me! Look at me!” — and, rather predictably, some guy reacted badly to her display. But feminism turns idiosyncrasies and aberrant behavior into politics, so that this becomes an issue of “respect [for] all women,” especially large-breasted college girls who wear tube tops to beer-pong parties.)

I had so actively campaigned for boobs — “I must, I must, I must increase my bust” may or may not have been a constant refrain of mine — it didn’t occur to me that they weren’t civil servants.
So when Rihanna, a woman who was very publicly the victim of domestic violence, displays her body with pride, it sends two messages: She refuses to equate being undressed with being vulnerable; she doesn’t give a shit what people think. Her nudity — as opposed to, say, Warrior Sports’ recent Instagram post of Playboy Playmate Jessica Ashley clutching a new hockey stick in ecstasy, her pert nipples just visible through her wife beater — has nothing to do with men. And she clearly doesn’t care that they don’t sit up as if suspended on a highwire or that her nipples aren’t the size of Tic Tacs. When Rihanna bares her perfectly womanly breasts, she’s doing it because Rihanna feels like it. And that makes me feel tremendous.

And that’s it. There’s your conclusion to nearly 700 words of Justine Harman’s empowering message: Why is it awesome for Rihanna to wear a see-through dress? “Her nudity . . . has nothing to do with men.” Along the way to this odd claim, Harman throws in the non sequitur of Rihanna’s status as a “victim of domestic violence” (she got beat up by Chris Brown), as if there were an obvious connection between that fact and Rihanna’s wardrobe choices.

Feminists oscillate between utter confusion and fanatical certainty, and this kind of Rorschach inkblot reaction — “Rihanna’s breasts are sending me messages!” — is further evidence that feminism is less a political movement than it is a psychiatric symptom.

In which @JustineHarman writes about her boobs. http://t.co/QimaH0RkgC I'll alert the Pulitzer Committee.

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 5, 2014

.@servative Some crazy people get therapy. Others become feminists. A quick glance at #fem2 reveals symptoms of all kinds of insanity.

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 5, 2014

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Category: Feminism

You Know You’re Baked When. . .

Posted on | June 5, 2014 | 41 Comments

by Smitty

. . .a three-day conference on the military featuring speakers such as Paul Begala and Chelsea Clinton.

I used to encourage young men to consider strongly a bit of military service after high school graduation. But Chelsea Clinton knows as much about the military as Chelsea Manning knows about manhood. And the prospect of CC’s mother, Her Majesty, being crowned in 2016 would afford everyone in uniform the surname “Stevens”.

The full sentence I was quoting above is: “McChrystal is currently in Pennsylvania for the Aspen Institute’s Summit at Gettysburg, a three-day conference on the military featuring speakers such as Paul Begala and Chelsea Clinton.”

I don’t know what kind of dirt the Democrats still have a guy like McChrystal. Is he hanging on for confirmation as SECDEF? Would you still want the job after Hagel?

McChrystal left the door open to the possibility that Bergdahl behaved inappropriately in walking away from his camp, though he did not take sides on the issue nor discuss any of the evidence that has surfaced in light of Bergdahl’s return. The debate around the trade of five high-level Taliban leaders for Bergdahl, he noted, “raises the great issue that we should talk about – and that is responsibility and service.” There was potential that Bergdahl behaved inappropriately, he said, and authorities “should review that and see whether we met responsibilities.”

That sure is a lot of mush. I guess he is lobbying for SECDEF.

via Breitbart

Category: Military

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.05.14

Posted on | June 5, 2014 | 13 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
Prisoner Swap: Taliban Release Video Of Bergdahl Handover

SGT Bowe Bergdahl

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Once Refused US Visa, Modi To Meet Obama In Washington
Off to US in September

POLITICS
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Chester Nez in a 2009 photo

Struck down by kidney failure at 93, he and other Code Talkers frustrated WWII Japanese intercept attempts

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Disgraced CA State Senator Yee Gets 300K Votes

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Supremes Refuse To Block Oregon Gay Marriage

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Stock Futures Flat Ahead Of ECB
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Private Hiring Slows, Trade Deficit Widens
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Twitter, HBO GO, Other Apps Headed To XBox
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SPORTS
Kings Draw First Blood, Beat Rangers In OT

LA’s Justin Williams Reprises Game 7 Heroics

Kings outshoot Rangers 43-27, win 3-2

Don Zimmer Dies, 83; Former NL Manager Of The Year

Sterling Agrees To Sell Clippers, Will Drop Lawsuit

Richards, Angels Blank Astros 4-0

Red Sox Lose To Tribe 7-4 In 12, Get Swept

Rays Lose Ninth Straight, But Focus Is On Loss Of Zimmer

Cespedes, Donaldson Homer As A’s Whip Skidding Yanks

Burnett Battered As Phils Fall To Nationals 8-4

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Maureen Dowd Can’t Handle Her Drugs

What a bummer.

NYT columnist beclowns herself anew with column about epic pot candybar fail

Gwyneth Paltrow Says “Negativity Changes The Structure Of Water”

Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line Spoof Jay-Z Elevator Fight At CMT Awards

Naomi Watts Signs Up To Next Three “Divergent” Sequels

LaToya Jackson Engaged To Jeffre Phillips

Bethenny Frankel And Jason Hoppy Settle Bitter Custody Battle

Hillary Clinton Opens Up bout Becoming A Grandma, Possible Presidential Run

Charlize Theron Bails On Pinkberry Tab – Then Returns With $96 Tip

Jason Aldean, New GF Brittany Kerr Walk Red Carpet Together At CMT Awards

Bill Condon To Direct Live-Action “Beauty And The Beast” Pic For Disney

No, Robert Pattinson Not Starring In Indiana Jones Reboot

Paramount Looking To Re-Team Wahlberg & Ferrell In “Daddy’s Home”

FOREIGNERS
Manhunt Underway In Canada After Three Mounties Shot, Killed
Obama, G-7 Meet To Deal With Former Member Russia
G-7 Expresses Concern Over South China Sea Tensions
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Thousands Attend Tiananmen Vigil In Hong Kong
Western Couple Held In Afghanistan Plead For Help In Video
Merkel Pleads With Britain Not To Leave EU Over Juncker
Ayatollah Khamenei Mocks Obama, Says He Doesn’t Have The Guts For War
Queen Elizabeth Signals Countdown To 2015 Poll
Ottawa Unveils New Law Making Buying Sex – But Not Prostitution – A Crime

BLOGS & STUFF
Michelle Malkin: The Story You Haven’t Yet Heard About Bowe Bergdahl’s Desertion
Twitchy: Left-Wing Claws Come Out For Lara Logan’s Return To CBS
American Power: Obama’s Foreign Policy Is Mainly About Domestic Politics
American Thinker: Memorial Day Racial Violence More Widespread Than Previously Reported
BLACKFIVE: Elephant In The Room -Let’s Make A Dopey Deal
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Obama Does That Thing All Over Diane Feinstein’s Face
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Palin Comments On Last Night’s Victories
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, June 4
Jammie Wearing Fools: Afghan Witnesses To Bergdahl Desertion Say He Was “Deliberately Heading For Taliban Strongholds”
Joe For America: Bergdahl Backlash Makes Fools Out Of Obama, Rice
JustOneMinute: Nobody Could Have Seen This Coming
Pat Dollard: Even Chris Matthews Slams “Nasty Deal” To Get Traitor Bergdahl
Protein Wisdom: Dem Congressman Says It’s “Ridiculous” To Believe He Actually Believes What He Espoused
Shot In The Dark: One Day In The Governor’s Office
The Jawa Report: Combat Outpost Zerok
The Lonely Conservative: Double Digit Obamacare Premium Hikes Coming In 2015
This Ain’t Hell: Miscalculation On Bergdahl
Weasel Zippers: NBC, CBS Skip Latest Developments In VA Scandal As It Expands To More States
Megan McArdle: Cold, Hard Facts About Freezers

Category: Live at Five

#ConcedeCochran: Will Republicans Keep Wasting More Money on the Loser?

Posted on | June 4, 2014 | 55 Comments

AUGUSTA, Georgia
We left Mississippi at 9:30 this morning, which gave me barely enough time to file a column for The American Spectator:

The most closely watched campaign in the country will continue for another three weeks, as Tea Party-backed challenger Chris McDaniel and Sen. Thad Cochran head to a June 24 runoff in the Republican primary here. Neither candidate won a majority in Tuesday’s primary vote, but McDaniel’s margin of about 2,000 votes out of more than 300,000 votes cast was enough for the young state senator to declare his win “a historic moment” for Mississippi.
“Our fight is not over,” McDaniel told the crowd in the Hattiesburg Convention Center ballroom last Tuesday night, as votes continued to be counted. “Whether it’s tomorrow, or whether it’s three weeks from tonight, we will stand victorious.”
The runoff was forced because there were three candidates on the ballot and a little-noticed third candidate, businessman Thomas Carey, got nearly 5,000 votes — only 1.6 percent of the total, but enough to keep McDaniel below the crucial majority needed to avoid the runoff. Yet the result Tuesday was cause for celebration among Tea Party activists who have spent months campaigning to defeat the six-term incumbent Cochran. . . .

You can read the whole thing. You might also want to read Molly Ball’s campaign wrap-up at The Atlantic. (She sat next to me at the press table last night in Hattiesburg.) Karl Rove’s American Crossroads super-PAC has already announced it will not waste any more money trying to re-elected the doomed Nixonian fossil. Today Ali Akbar launched the #ConcedeCochran hashtag campaign on Twitter:

Everyone knows Thad is gonna lose, even the NRSC. #ConcedeCochran #MSsen pic.twitter.com/esmpo9wYlM

— Ali A. Akbar (@ali) June 4, 2014

#ConcedeCochran because @KarlRove took his ball and went home.

— TheOutlaw (@WhitmanTony) June 4, 2014

#ConcedeCochran Thad is doomed. Don't waste more GOP money.

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 4, 2014

Thad Cochran isn't going to win a run-off and doesn't drawing this race out just help the Democrats? #ConcedeCochran @SenThadCochran

— John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) June 4, 2014

#ConcedeCochran because sore loser syndrome is a bad look. Be a team player. Listen to your constituents.

— Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabby_Hoffman) June 5, 2014

Thad Cochran Tweet goes down the memory hole MT @nickconfessore: 2 hrs ago, @SenThadCochran … pic.twitter.com/hMJSOGo2TB

— DanRiehl (@DanRiehl) June 4, 2014

#ConcedeCochran thanks @ali for the great hashtag. GO McDaniel @CMForUSSenate WIN

— Ginny Saul (@GinnySaul) June 4, 2014

When an incumbent is forced into a runoff in a primary, the handwriting is on the wall. The question is whether the dimwits at the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Chamber of Commerce can recognize their error, or whether they’re going keep throwing away money in a hopeless attempt to prevent conservative Mississippi voters from electing a conservative senator.

My 10-day road trip will soon end — I plan to be back home Thursday night, having traveled first to the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans and then hitting the Mississippi primary campaign trail. After all the road-warrior travels I did between 2009 and 2012, I’ve mostly stayed at home the past 18 months. It’s good to get out on the road again, but I’m a grandpa now, and I’m looking forward to getting back to my wife and kids and — oh, yes — continuing to expose and dismantle radical feminism. Speaking of which . . .

Sandra Fluke will be on the ballot in California this November. California has become a cesspool of dangerous madness. My advice to sane Californians: Get out and don’t look back, or you’ll be turned into a pillar of salt when the brimstone starts raining down.

PREVIOUSLY:

May 26: ROAD TRIP!
May 27: Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson Will Speak at Republican Leadership Conference
May 28: #RLC2014 Ready to Rock
May 29: #RLC2014 Cooking With Gas!
May 30: #RLC2014 N’Awlins, Y’all
June 1: Craig McCulloch Is the Real Deal
June 1: Mississippi Update: Chris McDaniel Campaign Fights GOP Establishment
June 2: Can Chris McDaniel Close the Deal?
June 3: ‘Like a Plot Twist in a Faulkner Novel’
June 3: Mississippi Primary Results HQ

Category: Election, Mississippi

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.04.14

Posted on | June 4, 2014 | 17 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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SPORTS
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Huge in Houston: Rookie 1b Jon Singleton

1 for 3 with 2 RBI on homer and bases-loaded walk

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Cruz Homers In Return To Texas As O’s Beat Rangers

Marino Withdraws From NFL Concussion Lawsuit

Reds Beat Giants For Fourth Straight Win

Rockies Fall 4-2 To Snakes, Might Lose Gonzalez

Dozier Breaks Out, Spurs Twins 6-4 Win Against Brewers

Ryan Zimmerman Returns As LF, Nats Blitz Phillies 7-0

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Miranda Lambert Covers Rolling Stone’s Country Issue In Tight White Tank & Daisy Dukes

What, really, is there to say?

Dishes about Beyonce obsession, hubby Blake Shelton

Wachowskis’ “Jupiter Ascending” Delayed Until February 2015

Scott Derrickson To Direct “Dr. Strange”

More Freaking Out Over Racist Stuff By Justin Bieber

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Keira Knightley Was Told She Was Anorexic, Hated, And A “S**t Actress”

Karlie Kloss Says Best Friend Taylor Swift Has “No Time For Guys”

Coroner: Gwar Frontman Dave Brockie Died Of Heroin Overdose

See Jill Duggar’s Engagement Surprise

Will Smith To Star In NFL Concussion Drama

FOREIGNERS
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Isolation Deepens In Breakaway Ukraine Region As Rebels Dream of New Russia
July Deadline For Iran Nuke Deal Unlikely
US Reaffirms No Weapons To Ukraine
NATO Finalizing Military Aid Package For Ukraine
With Erdogan’s Power Growing, Turkey Becomes More Polarized
Huge Blow To BJP Ahead Of Maharashtra Polls

BLOGS & STUFF
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Vagueness Of Grieving Father’s Demands Makes Him Perfect Gun Control Poster Boy
Proof Positive: Jay Carney, We Hardly Knew Ye
Michelle Malkin: Flashback – A Reminder Of Bowe Bergdahl’s Desertion Problem
Twitchy: “Getting Worse By The Hour” – FNC Reports Bergdahl Renounced American Citizenship
American Power: Oakland Eco-Fascists Slammed For Caring More About Herons Than City’s Homeless
American Thinker: President Obama’s Exceptionally Productive Week
BLACKFIVE: Don’t Let The Bergdahl S**t-Storm Distract From Fixing the VA
Conservatives4Palin: Obama Opens His Latest War Against Energy And Jobs
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, June 3
Jammie Wearing Fools: Man Who Left Four Behind To Die In Benghazi Says “We Don’t Leave Men And Women In Uniform Behind”
Joe For America: Report Says EPA Climate Rule Will Cripple Coal Industry, Leave 224,000 Jobless
JustOneMinute: Two Papers In One
Pat Dollard: O’Reilly Says White House Insider Told Him Obama No Longer Cares About Public Opinion, Now Doing Whatever He Pleases, “Consequences Be Damned”
Protein Wisdom: “Vulnerable Senate Democrats Fear Impact Of New EPA Rule”
Shot In The Dark: The Revolution Will Be Nitpicked
STUMP: Public Pensions Primer – Why Do We Pre-Fund Pensions?
The Jawa Report: One Thousand Words On The Consequences Of Bow Bergdahl’s Desertion
The Lonely conservative: Liberals Vote For Policies They Don’t Want To Live With Or Pay For
This Ain’t Hell: A Five-Sided Kennel Of Cowardice
Weasel Zippers: State Department Claims Soldiers Who Served With Bergdahl Don’t Know What They’re Talking About
Megan McArdle: Brownie Mix Is For Eskimos And Fraidy-Cats

Category: Live at Five

Mississippi Primary Results HQ

Posted on | June 3, 2014 | 63 Comments

HATTIESBURG, Mississippi
UPDATE 10:40 p.m. CDT: Now with 93% of precincts reporting, McDaniel’s lead is 3,086 votes. He is at 49.7% of the vote, Cochran at 48.7%. If necessary, a runoff would be June 24.

UPDATE 10:10 p.m. CDT: With 89% of precincts reporting, McDaniel’s lead is about 3,500 votes.

UPDATE 9:40 p.m. CDT: With 77% of precincts reporting, McDaniel leads, 49.6% to 48.8% for Cochran.

* * * PREVIOUSLY (6:57 ET) * * *

The Convention Center here is the site of the Chris McDaniel victory party. Of course, election night events are always called a “victory party” in advance, even though you don’t know who will win the election until the votes are counted. Polls close at 7 p.m. CDT (8 Eastern) and we expect the vote to be extremely close, so it could be a long, long night. Here is some expert commentary:

Of course, I’m much better-looking in person. I’ll be updating regularly tonight as the vote totals come in. Stay tuned.

Preparation for McDaniel's victory party is underway here in Hattiesburg. /cc @rsmccain @the_riggstaylor #MSsen pic.twitter.com/tc7zSuFKSd

— Ali A. Akbar (@ali) June 3, 2014

UPDATE 7:15 p.m. CDT: Polls have been closed for 15 minutes and, with 0% of precincts reporting, it’s McDaniel 0%, Cochran 0%.

HATTIESBURG — Just had bagpipes playing "Scotland the Brave" at @senatormcdaniel victory party. #mssen #tcot

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 3, 2014

UPDATE 8 p.m. CDT: Country singer Eric Welford is entertaining the crowd here. Meanwhile, with 3.4% of precincts reporting, it’s Cochran 52%, McDaniel 47%.

Mississippi ranks dead last in speed of vote-counting?

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 4, 2014

“@ali: #VRWC: @mkibbe, me, @rsmccain and reporter @mboyle1 at the McDaniel victory party. #mssen pic.twitter.com/GtfBgszOal” i know 3 of you

— Alex Boyle (@ssseaboq) June 4, 2014

I’m sitting next to The Atlantic‘s Molly Ball, who’s got a nice article about the pathetic fate of Thad Cochran.

PREVIOUSLY:

May 26: ROAD TRIP!
May 27: Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson Will Speak at Republican Leadership Conference
May 28: #RLC2014 Ready to Rock
May 29: #RLC2014 Cooking With Gas!
May 30: #RLC2014 N’Awlins, Y’all
June 1: Craig McCulloch Is the Real Deal
June 1: Mississippi Update: Chris McDaniel Campaign Fights GOP Establishment
June 2: Can Chris McDaniel Close the Deal?
June 3: ‘Like a Plot Twist in a Faulkner Novel’

Category: Election, Mississippi

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