April 14, 2008

Bitter Fruit

Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen tells the Philadelphia Inquirer that either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton will have a hard time winning Tennessee in the fall - and that either of them as the nominee may also hurt Democrats down the ballot.

Bredesen said some Democrats running for local and statewide office in Tennessee are now distancing themselves from both Obama and Clinton. "One of the superdelegates said to me, 'I'm in a swing district and both of them are poison to me,' " Bredesen said.