Not only did McCain post one of the biggest wins in a long time here in Tennessee against Obama, The republicans also took over the State House of Legislators, and strengthened their majority in the state senate. They haven’t held a majority of the state house since the Civil War! You know how they did it.... By running as conservatives.
Also, the leftist media likes to talk about how racist we are here in Tennessee. What they fail to mention is that when Harold Ford ran against Bob Corker back in ‘06 for the Senate, (when Tennessee bucked the trend back then as well), Harold Ford received somewhere over 48% of the vote, won a bunch of counties and almost won. Why....
Because Harold Ford is not as Liberal as Obama. Goes to prove that this wonderful state I live in is nowhere near the racist state the media makes it out to be. That we really are voting on Policy matters, not skin color.
But don’t tell the media that. They wouldn’t believe it if you paid them.
Actually, TN voters have been voting majority or plurality preference for the GOP for the State House of Reps since the mid ‘90s. Grotesque Democrat gerrymandering kept us from getting a majority of actual seats. We got a huge majority of voters, over 1.1 million to 900k that voted GOP for the legislature this time and STILL because of gerrymandering we only won by 1 seat (we actually had de facto control of the House back from 1969-71 when it was tied 49-49 with 1 Independent — a Black Democrat from Knoxville voted for the Republican candidate for Speaker, future Congressman Bill Jenkins, and we had control — when the Dems won a narrow majority in 1970, they gerrymandered us ruthlessly until this day, keeping an emerging permanent Republican majority at bay). When Jenkins was elected, we were the first Southern state to have a GOP legislative leader since the 1890s.
I’ve always thought the real racism is in the industrialized north and upper midwest.
Great news from Tennessee, thanks for that.
I thought the state had been drifting a little leftward recently so this is a really encouraging bright spot.
I’m sure it drives the lefties in Nashville nuts.