8 November 2011, 11:33 pm
>> In Mississippi, voters chose another Republican, Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, to succeed term-limited GOP Gov. Haley Barbour. Democratic nominee Johnny DuPree had sought to become the state's first African American governor of the modern era. At the same time, Mississippi voters firmly rejected Initiative 26, which would have effectively defined birth control methods like IUDs and the morning-after pill as murder. Barbour supported the measure, as did both major-party gubernatorial candidates. Bryant was quoted as telling supporters in Tupelo this week that ''Satan wins'' if the amendment was defeated, describing the statewide campaign over the measure as ''a battle of good and evil of biblical proportions.'' ... Read More »