Tennessee In Play?
September 28, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Knoxville News-Sentinel’s Michael Silence has this great blog post:
There’s this from the NYT, which is just an inaccurate, sweeping generalization.
In Tennessee, another Southern state long considered safely red, Rep. Harold Ford Jr. has run an aggressive campaign that has put that state seriously in play.
Polls and surveys have shown for 12 years now that independents outnumber both Republicans and Democrats. This state kept Jim Sasser in office for 18 years, then booted him in favor of a neophyte. Bill Frist has enough sense to leave the Senate before TN voters do that to him, and I’ll bet you that if he runs for president in 2008, he will not carry TN.
This state is full of contrary voters who do not vote the party line and who will turn on a dime. Just ask Van Hilleary, or just visit the Rocky Top Brigade to get a sense of the state’s staunch independence. Any Democrat who writes off TN, and any Republican who takes it for granted, are both overpaid even if they’re just making $1.
Check out the No Silence Here Blog for more.
Big Roy said,
September 28, 2006 @ 4:28 pm
While I would hate to see the Senate go to the democrats. Ford is an impressive candidate. Which wouldn’t be bad if Corker was impressive also, but he isn’t.
Jay Webber said,
September 28, 2006 @ 8:16 pm
If Ford can pull this out, imagine an Obama-Ford ticket (or vice versa) in 2012.