Friday, November 03, 2006
Corker/Ford Senate Race Spurs Heavy Local Early Voting
I'm local to Chattanooga, and stong early voter turnout was the lead story on the local TV news. You can see the Chattanooga Times Free Press story here and the same in Nashville's Tennessean here. The last time I can remember this much electoral interest being generated in this area was the 92 Bush/Perot/Clinton debacle. Tennessee shamefully fell to Clinton in that one. My read locally is that Corker is heavily favored, but that's no doubt skewed by the fact that this is Corker's home turf. Off topic a bit: During the 92 race I remember one old country guy on the local TV news declaring: "I'm votin' for Bush 'cause I don't think I can stand four years of Hillary!" If he'd only known...
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