Scott Colom’s Senate Win Is the Democrats’ Most Shocking Flip of the Midterms
Paige Williams's New Yorker article chronicles how Scott Colom, a district attorney from Columbus, flipped a Mississippi Senate seat from Cindy Hyde-Smith, becoming the first Black senator the state's voters have ever elected after a lead of twenty-eight votes on election night grew past five thousand. The piece also examines Mississippi's voting barriers—some 230,000 voters purged from poll books partly through Experian data—and Colom's "Mississippi Matters" campaign.
