Posted on 06/21/2006 7:46:30 AM PDT by TSchmereL
Now the Zogby poll indicates that Harold Ford, the Democratic candidate to succeed Majority Leader Bill Frist (R) in Tennessee, is running a surprisingly strong race against his three possible Republican opponents. That could be the sixth seat.
Zogby has Ford tied with former Rep. Ed Bryant, with each winning 42 percent of the vote, and trailing by a small margin, 43-41, against former Rep. Van Hilleary. A third possible candidate, Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker, leads Ford by 46-42.
Ford, one of a new generation of African-American politicians with considerable appeal across party lines, has two defects as he runs for the open seat: He is black in a state with the lowest African-American population in the old Confederacy, and his uncle is facing serious corruption charges. But both of these drawbacks are quite obvious to the voters of Tennessee. If they are insufficient to doom his candidacy, this man may be a winner.
Ford himself is a Southern version of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), a moderate who has the capacity to attract independent votes. Ford rejects the extreme liberal ideology of many other black Democratic congressmen. He has also, one hopes, absorbed the lessons his ethically challenged family has to teach him about keeping his nose clean. Harold Ford is exactly the kind of black Democrat whom moderates would love to love.
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What a pair of loser-pollsters!!!
Ford loses by ten.
Polls are for strippers.
Another Zogby "Special Sauce" poll to push his own agenda.
Morris phoned this one in. Don't bother.
I think I'll volunteer for a suicide hotline so I can encourage all the disappointed Democrats calling in to follow through on their impulse.
There is no GOP nominee at this point, though, is there?
2. Any poll taken more than four weeks before an election is worthless.
seeing a surprising number of Ford signs in my what should be republican area. i am having a tough time deciding between Van Hilleary and Bryant... that could be the reason for an early good showing for Ford.
Ford is a quality opponent who should not be taken lightly. That said I think we hold onto the seat.
if by "new generation" they mean younger, but yet still a wholly-owned subsitiary of the race-pimping NAACP et al.
(those two are wrong so often, they couldn't even be TV weathermen)
Yeah, Larry Sabato is the crown prince of wrong. Great work, though, if you can get it!
Harold Ford, Jr. has more signs out on the roadways of Tennessee than Rock City!
Every red barn will soon say "Just __ Miles to Harold Ford, Jr.!"
I haven't seen a single poll that has Ford winning, not one. Plus Zogby's methodology polls too many dems. As for Morris, he was the architect Bill Clinton's middle of the road strategy, i.e. don't take a stand on any controversial issue, always straddle the fence. Not what I would call leadership.
The way the pups have been acting lately, I wonder!
Morris likes to predict every outcome so he can go back and say "I told you so".
Obviously, Dick Morris doesn't realize the type of "name recognition" Ford has in Tennessee!!
I worry about Ford. I don't think he is like Obama. Obama is a rabble-rouser. He shoots his mouth off. Ford, every time I've seen him, has been quiet, courteous, respectful, and very, very moderate.
Problem is, I don't think he is a moderate under the hood. I think he's a typical tax and spend, gut the military liberal, and I think he has a good chance to win.
He needs to be cut off at the knees.
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