Monday, October 23, 2006

Can the Dems Win in Tennessee?


Aug. 14, 2006:
Harold Ford, Jr., and Bob Corker face off.

After a bitter primary, Tennessee Republicans chose former Chattanooga mayor Bob Corker as their U.S. Senate candidate. But on the eve of the decisive day, it was the virtually unopposed Democrat who couldn't sleep. "I was up all night," says Harold Ford Jr., the young congressman campaigning to be the South's first black senator since Reconstruction. "Elections are like Christmas morning for me"...