Tennessee Senate: Ford (D) Trails Three Republicans

Rasmussen Reports ^ | 5/7/06

[LdSentinal]

May 7--In the competitive race to fill the Senate seat of departing Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R), likely Democratic nominee Harold Ford continues to trail all three potential Republican opponents.

Representative Van Hilleary now leads Ford 47% to 38%. Representative Ed Bryant leads Ford 44% to 36%. And Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker leads him 43% to 39%.

Those numbers are little changed from our previous Tennessee election poll. Since the beginning of the year, the gaps between Ford and the Republicans have widened.

Hilleary does a bit better among conservatives than Bryant or Corker.

All four candidates are viewed favorably by between 43% and 45% of voters. Ford has the highest unfavorables. Between a fifth and a quarter of the state's voters are still Not Sure what to think of each Republican Survey of 500 Likely Voters

May 1, 2006

Election 2006

Tennessee Senate

Ed Bryant (R) 44%
Harold Ford (D) 36%

Van Hilleary (R) 47%
Harold Ford (D) 38%

Bob Corker (R) 43%
Harold Ford (D) 39%

[John Geyer]

No shocker.

[uncitizen]

In the competitive race to fill the Senate seat of departing Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R), likely Democratic nominee Harold Ford continues to trail all three potential Republican opponents.

He'd better pull those numbers up otherwise, if i were him, i wouldn't get into any small planes.

[Sybeck1]

I like Bryant myself. I voted for him for senate before I moved back to Mississippi.

[Sybeck1]

I've heard in Memphis that Ford will take on Herenton if he loses this for mayor.

[Coldwater Creek]

Corker is really advertising in Memphis. I haven't heard from the other two Republicans.

If Ford runs for Mayor, which I don't think that he will as Memphis is too small town for Jr., then Memphis gets what they deserve. Come to think of it either Willie or Jr. is what Memphis deserves.

[don-o]

Corker on radio a lot in upper east. To me a really silly commercial - his Mama talking about how honest the Corkers have always bee.

[AlexW]

"Corker is really advertising in Memphis"

Even though I am out of the country, I wound up on the Corker Email list.
He has some big names behind him, such as Pitt Hyde.

As for mayor, Memphis is stuck with a corrupt chocolate for life, whoever he is.

[LS]

Here is another one of those purported "vulnerable" GOP seats. Except when you look at all of them, they are getting less vulnerable all the time. Now Burns is about the only one who isn't tied or ahead (Santorum pulled into essentially a dead heat this week).

[Coldwater Creek]

No race today!!!

Bryant is really the only Republican that I know anything about. I agree that radio spot is really (forgive the term) redneck. Don't think that I will be voting for old Bob.

[Coldwater Creek]

A little while back, I got you mixed up with Sybeck1 and falsely accused him of leaving the country. Keep in touch with us Tenn.freepers.

[Clintonfatigued]

This is good news, but not all that surprising. Harold Ford's Auntie Ophelia being ousted from the state Senate due to voter fraud obviously hasn't helped him.

Here's the rundown on the GOP candidates. Van Hilleary would make a good Senator, Ed Bryant would make an excellent Senator, and Bob Corker is a RINO.

[Clintonfatigued]

Good news in Tennessee ping

[MindBender26]

J. C. Watts is a good friend of Van Hilleary and would probably go in for him, which would be very bad news for Ford.

[libstripper]

He's advertising every day on the "Rush Limbaugh Show" saying what a great conservative and how truthful (!!!) he is. Somehow or other he manages to miss his role as RINO Sundquist's 1995-99, commissioner of finance and administration when Sundquist was trying to force a state income tax onto Tennessee. In May of 1998 he voted in the Davidson County DemonRat primary, a vote he followed up in August of 1998 by voting the DemonRat statewide primary. This guy is a RINO masquerading as a conservative. DON'T VOTE FOR HIM.

[AlexW]

"J. C. Watts is a good friend of Van Hilleary and would probably go in for him, which would be very bad news for Ford"

I don't think so.
JC is a great guy, but he will not pull any black vote from
Ford, at least not in west Tennessee.

I can not think of ANY black Republican that has the admiration from other blacks.

[vetvetdoug]

Only those closely related to the incarcerated animals in the primate park at the Memphis Zoo would vote for Ford.
Ford has the largest unfavorables....what an understatement.

[Constantine XIII]

LOL, getting beat by Van Hilleary.

[MaineVoter2002]

He'd better pull those numbers up otherwise, if i were him, i wouldn't get into any small planes.

LOL

[zbigreddogz]

I'm surprised Van Hilleary is doing better among conservatives then Bryant. From what I know, there isn't really any ideological differences between them, and Bryant is the better general election candidate, as well as most likely the more effective senator.