TN-SEN: Return of the Bredi

[Young Conservative]

Are any Rand Paul/ Mike Lee style Conservatives running? Who will be the establishment voice?

[Young Conservative]

Good, get the RINOs out.

[Young Conservative]

Heritage Foundation Action Scores:
Bob Corker: 50%
Marsha Blackburn: 88%

[Young Conservative]

FTR, I voted for Trump the businessman, not Trump the celebrity.

That's sad. For what it's worth, he was a better celebrity than businessman.

You can imply Trump was a bad businessman once you make more than a billion dollars but not until then

[Young Conservative]

I’m pretty sure Manning said he wouldn’t run

LET ME DREAM, DAMMIT!

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I think I'd like Haslam but I don't think Blackburn would be a terrible senator.

#StopHaslam Can we please have a conservative in the senate from Tennessee?

[Young Conservative]

Bredesen isn't going to win lol

He could beat Blackburn in a wave; it'd be a very tough race, but not impossible.

So you really believe it is lean rep for now?

I mean, TN has become considerably more republican since he was first elected as Governor...

The closest Bredeson could make it is single digits (if he campaigned on a Pro-Life platform). I doubt he could make it as close as 2006 though.

[Young Conservative]

Easily Marsha Blackburn.

[Young Conservative]

Flake 2.0

[Young Conservative]

As someone from the South, I think Blackburn will do better than people expect. Some  group turned off by Trump are mainly apolitical/moderate/conservative suburban women. Blackburn is literally that demographic and will resonate with them, imo or at least enoucrage them to vote for her and return home to the GOP. I think it’s very good that two white male Republicans (Flake/Corker) are likely leaving the senate and will be hopefully replaced by GOP women (McSally/Ward,, Blackburn).

[Young Conservative]

I'm hoping Blackburn trounces Corker in the primary.

So you want an IN-SEN 2012 redux?

Seems unusual coming from you.

Uh yeah. I'm supporting Bredesen.

Blackburn isn't scandal plagued. She's winning this.

[Young Conservative]

Not a poll of the race, but favorability numbers for TN-SEN:

Vanderbilt University, April 26-May 8, 1400 RV

Marsha Blackburn 49/38
Phil Bredesen 67/25

Trump job approval: 53/44

They definitely polled the Senate race, but obviously Blackburn was winning and they didn't want to release that.

[Young Conservative]

Not a poll of the race, but favorability numbers for TN-SEN:

Vanderbilt University, April 26-May 8, 1400 RV

Marsha Blackburn 49/38
Phil Bredesen 67/25

Trump job approval: 53/44

They definitely polled the Senate race, but obviously Blackburn was winning and they didn't want to release that.

Fantastic tinfoil hat.


If a useless, grandstanding far-right congressman beats a very moderate, respected Governor, Tennessee is stupid as hell. Plain and simple. I can't wait until congress is just a bunch of Bernie Sanders & Warren stans vs Marsha Blackburn & Ted Cruz stans. America will go to sh!t if we keep electing terrible & worthless senators.

Yes, they are being unrealistically paranoid.  This is part of Vanderbilt's series of biannual political surveys of the state, in which they poll things like name recognition, favorability, and issue positions.  These surveys typically don't include polling of specific races.  Vanderbilt sometimes does horse-race polling as separate individual polls, not as part of these surveys.

Paranoia implies fear. I am not afraid of losing this race. Just mildly annoyed.

[Young Conservative]

National Republicans are dropping a full load of steaming hog diarrhea on the airwaves of Tennessee:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2WMjL73b_Kw

This ad implies to me that the NRCC has polling showing Trump’s approval in TN being high. If ya high enough to warrant an ad focused on President Trump  going after the democrat, it’s prpjanly too high for said democrat to win in an inelastic red state.