JACKSON, Miss. — When Scott Colom, a local district attorney, announced his candidacy late last year, it seemed like a long shot in a ruby red state. But by October of this year, a month before votes came pouring in for him, he was confident. "We didn't have hundreds of million dollars to come in to spend – we did it going door to door, festival to festival, earning support," Colom said at a canvassing event on the Mississippi coast. "We're gonna shock a lot of people, but I'm not gonna be shocked.
