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« on: December 08, 2022, 06:15:03 PM » |
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« edited: December 08, 2022, 06:18:37 PM by 15 Down, 35 To Go »
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In Tennessee, Middle Tennessee has become increasingly favored for statewide candidates. Historically, there was an (often fairly moderate) East Tennessee Republican Machine. That collapsed in the 2010s. Bill Haslam, Bob Corker, and Lamar Alexander were all replaced by Middle Tennessee Republicans when they retired. Middle Tennessee Republican politicians tend to be a little less parochial and a little more ideological than East Tennessee ones.
Democratic nominations are often competitive between the Middle Tennessee candidate and the West Tennessee candidate. The Middle TN option tends to want to try to win over moderates in places like Belle Meade, while the West TN candidate likes to try to turn out West Tennessee Democrats. Trump won West Tennessee by less than a point in 2020. But, sometimes the Middle Tennessee Democrat hemorrhages in West Tennessee. That happened to Jason Martin this year to the point that Shelby County was nearly a single-digit margin.
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