Incumbent Republican Sen. Thad Cochran‘s successful game plan, which drove his runoff victory over Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel for Mississippi‘s Republican Senate nomination, was unconventional.

But most incredible was the success of this game plan — to reach out to liberal black churches and get Democratic black voters to turn out and vote for Cochran — despite being executed in broad daylight.

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