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Tennessee Primary Results (Live thread)
WBIR ^ | 8/3/06

Posted on 08/03/2006 5:08:18 PM PDT by LdSentinal

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Returns should start around 8:30pm EST.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: 2006; bryany; corker; election; election2006; electioncongress; gopprimary; hilleary; primary; returns; senate; tennessee
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To: don-o
Well thats why I'm confused now so what's the real deal? This is the first time I've focused on this race, but it sounds like Corker may not be who he is selling himself to be. Yet it seems the majority of Tennesseans like what he's selling but it seems like a majority of Freepers don't.

Now I'm pretty sure the overwhelming majority of Freepers are conservatives but why wouldn't they like Corker if he was in fact a conservative and if he isn't why can't your average Tennessean not see this?
201 posted on 08/03/2006 7:36:49 PM PDT by whatisthetruth
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To: fieldmarshaldj

There is a small amount of good news. With over 1/4 of the vote in, Bob Corker has fallen a little bit below 50% and Ed Bryant is slowly climbing. It still looks bad, but perhaps not hopeless.


202 posted on 08/03/2006 7:37:23 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: Diddle E. Squat; fieldmarshaldj; bourbon

Corker is milquetoast Did

truly

and FMDJ does really keep up with this stuff as well or better than any other TN freeper

respectfully proffered


203 posted on 08/03/2006 7:37:46 PM PDT by wardaddy (I have undergone Harpie detox, it was very tough but well worth it)
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To: wardaddy

Well, I don't know about that, but I am a RINO, and would probably have voted for Corker, not so much because of that, but because if he had not won the primary, the race would have move into very close to the tossup category per the polls. I want the Pubbies to retain control of the Senate. Corker will be like Liddy Dole. That is just ducky for me, all things considered. I hope this finds you well. Cheers.


204 posted on 08/03/2006 7:38:32 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Ingtar

Wow, I'm amazed at how much closer this has gotten.

I orginally said that Hilleary and Bryant's totals wouldn't beat Corker's.

I may have to re-consider that - given the stronger numbers coming in from central and west Tennessee.


205 posted on 08/03/2006 7:38:38 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: fieldmarshaldj

fine - just don't attack posters personally.


206 posted on 08/03/2006 7:38:57 PM PDT by don-o (Proudly posting without reading the thread since 1998. (stolen from one cool dude))
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To: whatisthetruth

Ed Bryant was underfunded and the conservative vote was split between him and Van Hilleary. In addition, it's possible that liberal voters crossed over to vote in the Republican primary for Corker.


207 posted on 08/03/2006 7:39:17 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: who knows what evil?

Yeah, "they" must have had a hand in this since no politician has an ego or ambition.


208 posted on 08/03/2006 7:39:32 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: LdSentinal

Fathers day in Memphis is mas confusion!!!!


209 posted on 08/03/2006 7:39:38 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, over there, We won't be back 'til it's over Over there.")
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To: Clintonfatigued
Voila.
210 posted on 08/03/2006 7:40:11 PM PDT by Torie
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To: MplsSteve

at 723/2432

Corker 49.74 Bryant 35.13 VH 14.24 bump for Corker
49.27


211 posted on 08/03/2006 7:40:33 PM PDT by Ingtar (Prensa dos para el inglés)
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To: Torie

Yes, you are a RINO and own up to it. I respect that.

Most RINOs here would never have your cajones.

Of course Corker will beat Ford so would have Bryant and he would have been a dependable conservative for things like SCOTUS nominess and the like

unlike RINOs


212 posted on 08/03/2006 7:40:39 PM PDT by wardaddy (I have undergone Harpie detox, it was very tough but well worth it)
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To: wardaddy
...unless by design...

Makes you wonder...

213 posted on 08/03/2006 7:40:51 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: whatisthetruth
Tennesseans aren't dumb. Bryant ran a bad campaign while the Corker one was flushed with money. The Corker media buys have literally overwhelmed the state for the past few months.

Hilleary is really the one who hurt Bryant. He split the conservative base. Bryant spent much of the campaign fighting it out with him rather than exposing Corker. Bryant simply didn't have a chance.


Please note my earlier post. Corker's money literally overwhelmed what any other candidate could possibly do. When faced with four names on the ballot, which one do you think the average voter is going to chose? Possibly the one they've heard on TV over and over again, or randomly chose one of the three unheard of candidates? We had low voter turnout too. That affects things.
214 posted on 08/03/2006 7:41:02 PM PDT by RockyTop4GOP
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To: wardaddy; Torie

Don't feel bad, most here think I'm a RINO too.


215 posted on 08/03/2006 7:41:31 PM PDT by darkangel82 (Higher visibility leads to greater zottability.)
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To: MplsSteve
It has improved a ton.

My granddaughter is going to teach 10th grade English downtown this year. Her first year out of school. I am really nervous.
216 posted on 08/03/2006 7:42:43 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, over there, We won't be back 'til it's over Over there.")
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To: Torie

Williamson is one of the wealthiest counties east of the Miss river and pretty Utah like conservative.

i share Marsha Blackburn with them...which is a good thing...though I am Nashville proper


217 posted on 08/03/2006 7:42:44 PM PDT by wardaddy (I have undergone Harpie detox, it was very tough but well worth it)
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To: wardaddy

The polls showed a Bryant Ford race about even, with many undecideds. In this toxic election cycle, and it is toxic, that makes me nervous. And Tenn may be the dam, along with Virginia, against a Dem takeover of the Senate. That means Bush won't get confirmed any more acceptable appellate or SCOTUS nominees. This RINO would not like that. I like troglodytic judges, for reasons I have posted ad nauseum.


218 posted on 08/03/2006 7:43:32 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Diddle E. Squat

And Butt has actually kept his mouth shut, which he did not do in Huston.


219 posted on 08/03/2006 7:44:30 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, over there, We won't be back 'til it's over Over there.")
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To: wardaddy

They gerrymandered me out of Bryant/Blackburn country to water my area down. Here the Republicans let a man with the name of White run for Ford's seat. That is not exactly helpful in this town.


220 posted on 08/03/2006 7:44:43 PM PDT by Ingtar (Prensa dos para el inglés)
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