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Tennessee Senate: Ford (D) Trails Three Republicans
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 5/7/06

Posted on 05/07/2006 8:01:43 AM PDT by 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%

(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: 109th; 2006; bryant; corker; election; ford; fordmafia; frist; haroldford; haroldfordjr; haroldjr; jr; memphis; poll; primary; rasmussen; tennessee; vanhilleary
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To: John Geyer

will the conservatives once again split the vote and elect a RINO?


41 posted on 05/07/2006 5:36:19 PM PDT by georgia2006
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To: zbigreddogz

Is this that Harold Ford guy that Imus likes so much on his radio/TV program? If so, Imus backs another loser.


42 posted on 05/07/2006 5:40:29 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Better Living Through Government Interference - Democrats)
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To: LdSentinal

It's Hilleary now or Hillary later. Your choice.


43 posted on 05/07/2006 5:45:08 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (I wish a political party would come along that thinks like I do.)
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To: YaYa123
Imus is playing a beatiful fiddle with these left wingers.

And they don't get it. (Shhhhhhh, keep it quiet)

44 posted on 05/07/2006 5:47:54 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Better Living Through Government Interference - Democrats)
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To: Clintonfatigued

JUNIOR is running a new ad about the high cost of gas...wonder what his voting record is on voting against drilling, building new refineries?


45 posted on 05/07/2006 6:20:27 PM PDT by GailA (May our Lord bless and protect our Troops in harms way.)
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To: packrat35

I think Jr would make a good mayor. Gee, he couldn't do any worse that what Memphis has now. I don't think a Republican has a chance in the near future.


46 posted on 05/07/2006 7:43:24 PM PDT by oyez (Appeasement is insanity)
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To: mariabush

I am heading there myself shortly!


47 posted on 05/07/2006 8:05:55 PM PDT by CobraJet
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To: LS

Well, I don't know what his polls have said in past Mays, but Santorum has come from behind each time. I just know that the dynamics in the race favor Santorum over Casey the younger.


48 posted on 05/07/2006 8:17:17 PM PDT by AmishDude (AmishDude, servant of the dark lord Xenu.)
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To: georgia2006

The Gores and Big Oil

Former Vice President, Al Gore has a long-time relationship with Occidental Petroleum that has been enormously beneficial to the company. Occidental's late chairman, the controversial Armand Hammer, liked to say that he had Gore's father, Senator Albert Gore, Senior, "in my back pocket." When the elder Gore left the Senate in 1970, Hammer hired him for $500,000 a year. Personally and professionally the vice president has profited from Occidental largess. To this day he still draws $20,000 a year from a land deal in Tennessee brokered between his father and Hammer. The total amount is more than $300,000. The personal relationship between young Gore and Hammer was very close throughout the 1980's, including trips on Hammer's private jet and constant campaign contributions.

For most of the 20th century, oil companies have tried unsuccessfully to obtain control of two oil fields owned and operated by the federal government: the Teapot Dome field in Casper, Wyoming, and the Elk Hills field in Bakersfield, California. Despite his public reputation as a staunch environmentalist, Gore recommended that the president approve giving oil companies access to this publicly owned land. It is land that the U.S. Navy has held as emergency reserves since 1912. In October, 1997, the Energy Department announced that the government would sell 47,000 acres of the Elk Hills reserve to Occidental.

It was the largest privatization of federal property in U.S. history, one that tripled Occidental's U.S. oil reserves overnight. Although the Energy Department was required to assess the likely environmental consequences of the proposed sale, it didn't. Instead it hired a private company, ICF Kaiser International, Incorporated, to complete the assessment. The general chairman of Gore's presidential campaign, Tony Coelho, sat on the board of directors.

The very same day the Elk Hills sale was announced, Gore delivered a speech to the White House Conference on Climate Change on the "terrifying prospect" of global warming, a problem he blamed on the unchecked use of fossil fuels such as oil. He said, quoting, "If we ignore the scientific warnings and continue stubbornly on our current course, we better begin to prepare what we would like to say to our children and grandchildren. They might fairly ask, if you knew all that, why didn't you do something about it?"

The Gores and the Enviroment

The Pigeon River is in North Carolina and east Tennessee. The Champion International paper mill has pumped tons of chemicals and byproducts into it for years, turning it the color of coffee and adding a sulfurish smell. Gore campaigned against this pollution and lobbied the EPA to crack down. But in 1987, as Gore started running for president the first time, he was pressured by 2 politicians whose support he craved for the North Carolina Super Tuesday primary. Terry Sanford (then a Senator) and Jamie Clarke (North Carolina congressmen) lobbied him hard to ease up on Champion. Gore did, writing to the EPA, again and again, asking for a more permissive water pollution standard. Sanford and Clarke endorsed him, and Gore won the state handily.

Another example is a Gore family property that has been mined for zinc and germanium for decades. The Vice-President and his dad, the late Senator Albert Gore, Sr., obtained the land in a very favorable deal with the late Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum. Gore, Sr. was heavily supported by Hammer financially, and carried his water in the U.S. Senate.

Back in 1972, when zinc was discovered across the river from the Gore family land in Carthage, TN, Hammer sent engineers out and offered $20,000 per year for a mineral rights lease on some property owned by a church that had been willed the land. Instead, they wanted to sell and Hammer won a bidding war to buy the land for $160,000. He then sold it to Gore Jr. and Sr. for the same amount, and immediately started leasing the land back from him for the same $20,000. Lynwood Burkhalter, who in the 70s was president of the company that assumed this lease from Occidental Petroleum, called the payments "extraordinarily large."

Mining is, of course, a very messy business environmentally. The mine itself hasn't been that bad. Republicans have claimed that it's polluting the local drinking water, but according to the Wall Street Journal those problems "are actually very minor." However, the Journal notes that the plant in Clarksville TN, which processes the Gore minerals, is a federal Superfund site contaminated with cadmium and mercury, posing "a threat to the human food chain."

There's also a damning quote about cutting down Yew trees to make a promising cancer treatment that we used to include in our Gore quotes section. Except that the really embarrassing part -- which we got from an editorial in the Austin, Texas American Statesman -- turns out to be distorted and out of context. The full quote, which is still a little odd, is:

"The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die. It seems an easy choice -- sacrifice the tree for a human life -- until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated, that only specimens more than a hundred years old contain the potent chemical in their bark, and that there are very few of these yews remaining on earth." - Gore, in "Earth in the Balance", p. 119


49 posted on 05/08/2006 4:39:33 AM PDT by Beckwith (The liberal media has picked sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: Springman

When I see that Imus has Ford on, I just skip him nowadays. I cannot stand Imus flacking for this blankety blank!


50 posted on 05/08/2006 5:50:14 AM PDT by meema (I am a Conservative Traditional Republican, NOT an elitist, sexist, cynic or right wing extremist!)
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To: meema

Ford had a meltdown on John Gibson's show yesterday, basically shouting about the phone number thing being the straw that broke the camel's back, about how Bush was now monitoring private phone conversations, blah, blah, blah.

Gibson kept trying to call him on it, showing how badly uninformed Ford was, but Ford kept yapping until Gibson started laughing at him.


51 posted on 05/12/2006 6:32:52 AM PDT by zook
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