By Robert Lewis
MISSISSIPPI STATE, Miss. (Take 30 News)---With presidential elections coming around, elections that aren’t in the spotlight are the primary elections coming up in Mississippi. Absentee ballots were passed out the week before March 10th, which was the official day that Mississippi and six other state began their primaries. The competition for the Mississippi primaries was on the democratic side where the frontrunner Mike Espy went against two other candidates. Those three candidates battled it out to see who would be facing the Republican representative, Cindy Hyde-Smith come November.
This is how political science professor Steve Shaffer felt about the primaries.
“I think you've got some good people running for different offices so it's going to be fun. I think Espy and Cindy Hyde-Smith are both good people and that's why you know you could have a real close election there."
Even with his 40 years of experience with numerous teaching awards to come with it, Steve jokingly mentions how he still doesn’t understand politics.