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Daily Dose for October 31, 2006
Daily Dose
CNN Puts Corker Up 8 -- For the first time in recent memory a poll of likely voters shows Republican Bob Corker leading Dem Harold Ford, Jr. 52 percent to 44 percent - which is outside the margin of error of 4 percentage points. The polls were conducted for CNN by Opinion Research Corporation. The polls also show the Governor's race at 59-37 percent, with Governor Bredesen easily securing reelection. More here and here.
More on the Senate Race -- The News-Sentinel has more on the "Common Sense Tennessee" shadow 527 organization - and it's use of automated push-polling in Tennessee and Ohio. Corker campaign manager Tom Ingram said he wishes there were no independent expenditures in the race. Harold Ford, Jr. said he didn't mean to offend anyone with his earlier implication that Republicans do not "love the Lord." Among the more prominent politicans coming in for the two candidates include: Bill Clinton - Memphis rally for Ford; Wesley Clark - Clarksville rally for Ford; Rep. Barack Obama - rally for Ford; First Lady Laura Bush - Kingsport and Franklin rally for Corker; John McCain - fundraiser / rally for Corker. The Memphis Commercial Appeal has a look at some important counties for both candidates in West Tennessee.
Supreme Court Appoints Cooper AG -- Robert E. Cooper, Jr., legal counsel to Gov. Phil Bredesen, was appointed Tuesday by the Tennessee Supreme Court to serve an eight-year term as state attorney general. Cooper succeeds former Attorney General Paul Summers, who did not seek reappointment to the position.
Pinion Pushes to Explore Toll Roads in TN -- Democratic Rep. Phillip Pinion wants to set up a toll-road commission in the next session of the General Assembly that would consider implementation of toll-roads in Tennessee as a means of restoring funding to the state's highway department. Republican Eric Watson called toll roads an unneeded tax, citing the state's surplus.
Early Voting Numbers -- More on early voting below and this article from the Nashville City Paper.
