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former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker

Unfortunate name, sounds like Porker.

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And Corker sounds like Al Gore.

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Maybe some voters will think Corker is a Yankee because of that song from the late 1950s:

"...my girl's a corker, she's a New Yorker,
I buy her everything to keep her in style."

Corker won the primary because two other canadidates split the conservative vote (Ed Bryant and Van Hilleary). If either of the other two had bowed out, I don't think Corker would be the candidate now.