Tenn. GOP Primary Is Race to Watch

[Judi Lynn]

Tenn. GOP Primary Is Race to Watch

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 2, 2006
Filed at 5:49 p.m. ET

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The state Republican primary Thursday for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's seat is a bitter three-way battle and a race to watch ahead of the showdown over Senate power come November.

The seat is one of six in the Senate that Democrats would have to win if they hope to take control in the Nov. 7 general election, political observers say.

Frist, who is stepping down to mull over a presidential bid, hasn't endorsed a candidate in the GOP primary. The winner will most likely face Rep. Harold Ford Jr., who has no serious Democratic primary opposition and is hoping to become the first black U.S. senator elected in the South since Reconstruction.

Bob Corker, a former Chattanooga mayor, leads the three Republicans in fundraising, and a recent Mason-Dixon poll of 400 likely Republican voters gave him a 16-percentage-point lead, well beyond the 5-point margin of error.
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Tennessee-Primary.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[TNDemo]

1. I am going to be so glad when this is over.

The commercials are making me insane.

[Syrinx]

2. "first US Senator elected in the South since reconstruction"

That really gets on my nerves. There have been only three black US Senators elected period. Two from Illinois and one from Massachusetts.

[Blaze Diem]

3. Frist for President??????????

Oh Geez...
I'm gonna be sick before the Pres election is over too. (2008)

[WhiteTara]

4. let's see what happens with the SEC

you may not have to look at the puke at all...he may be in jail.

[Blaze Diem]

5. Thank You..puke makes me sick!

the sight of puke, that is.

I think I'll just ignore all the parts about the GOP Presidential line up.

I really don't think I want to put myself through that ..besides, eventually they'll settle on some lying bloated corp. owned prop, and will dub him a successor to king boy George.
Hopefully the world will have had enough of it all, thus ending the fascist reign of the neocon right.

It pretty much hangs in the fine balance of the November election..a shift in power in Congress and Senate could mean the end of Bush.

Its a nice thought to hang on to.