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« Toyota Can Pay Cash for Its New Assembly Plant | Main | Inconveniencing the Truth » February 6, 2007Some Folks Weren't Paying AttentionThe Washington Post shows it is clueless about politics in Tennessee in its story today on the undermine-the-troops resolution being pushed by defeatist Democrats in the U.S. Senate. It says this about Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander: Alexander insisted that political considerations are not his foremost concern, but he conceded that he is struggling to strike the right note. "I'm unhappy about the conduct of the war in Iraq, and I would like to express my support for the troops at the same time. I want to find an appropriate way to say that," said the first-term senator, who could draw a formidable opponent in 2008 as his state drifts increasingly Democratic.Memo to the WaPo: The GOP grabbed a majority in the state Senate in 2004 and held it in 2006. In 2006, a popular Democratic incumbent governor who won re-election with 70 percent of the votes was unable to help a single Democratic challenger unseat a single Republican incumbent in the state House, despite gunning for about 10 of them. And the GOP won the U.S. Senate race in the state despite a big national Democratic tide and a mammoth effort by the Democrats to win the seat, including ads featuring the aforementioned popular governor. Tennessee isn't drifting Democratic - it's becoming increasingly Republican. Update: A commenter I banned because he's a troll who posts under a variety of different names says it is wrong to claim Bredesen and the Democrats targeted ten Republican House incumbents. Ten?!?! Do you have any idea how much targeting that many races would cost? The fact that you would throw out such a ridiculously inflated number shows how ignorant you are of how campaign politics works. How would you know which races the Democrats targeted anyway? Did they tell you?Actually, I said "about 10," and the facts are that Bredesen cut ads, raised funds and campaigned against eight House GOP incumbents. Get the facts here. Posted in Campaign Season
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"Tennessee isn't drifting Democratic - it's becoming increasingly Republican." True. All the ingredients were there last year: a bad year for Republicans nationally, a strong, photogenic Democratic candidate with loads of national support, and a base unhappy with the GOP's nominee, yet Corker still managed to win. If Tennessee were trending Democratic, as the WaPo suggests, Ford would be our senator today. The fact that he isn't suggests that Tennessee is a very tough state for a Democrat to get to the senate from. Posted by: John Norris Brown at February 6, 2007 2:37 PMThe real state of the Democratic Party in Tennessee. Of course, there's still hope for the Volunteer Dems because the state of the Republican Party nationally might actually be worse. Posted by: Bob K at February 6, 2007 3:58 PMNever let the truth get in the way of a liberal Democrat propaganda piece. Posted by: D.J. Jones at February 6, 2007 6:25 PMThat just shows how clueless those people are. Some of Juniors minions in DC probably told them that. Posted by: brian at February 7, 2007 12:17 PMPost a comment
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