Ford (Dem) leads in new independent poll....

[Claire Beth]

A bit of good news from Tennessee....Maybe there is some hope!

New Poll Shows Ford With Slight Lead Over Corker, Bredesen Way Ahead
posted September 12, 2006

A new SurveyUSA poll commissioned by WBIR-TV Knoxville is the first independent poll to show U.S. Senate nominee Harold Ford Jr. in the lead over opponent Bob Corker, the Ford campaign said Tuesday.

Conducted Sept. 9-11 in a survey of 1,200 Tennessee adults, including 638 likely voters, the poll places Ford at 48% and Corker at 45% with a 4% margin of error.

The same poll had Gov. Phil Bredesen with 63 percent to 30 percent for Republican Jim Bryson.

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_92634.asp

[SteppingRazor]

1. Wow. Well, let's hope. Because if Ford can win in TN...

we have a real chance of taking the Senate

[tnlefty]

2. Watch out now! Corker didn't hire those Swift Boat freaks for nothing!

I guess I'm gonna force myself to watch the local channels in the morning to see what types of ads they produce. I have a feeling things are fixin' to get ugly.

[charlottelouise]

3. ...and the poll is out of Knoxville

...which is, to put it mildly, not Ford's home base -- so this is even better news than it appears at first !!

[Claire Beth]

4. my thoughts exactly! n/t