TN-SEN: Return of the Bredi

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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?

Nope! This is your punishment for the Southern Strategy: Republican Senators, all of whom incredibly frustrating to you. It's the price we paid for flipping Virginia and Vermont

Lol, TN was not a southern strategy state by any definition. It was always the closest Deep South State (typically in the 1950's), had a large Republican base in EAST TN and it voted Republican in 1920, 1928, 1952, 1956, and 1960.

Democrats actually gained ground in Tennessee post 1970 and Republicans didn't regain the upper hand until the 1990's.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

On Haslam: on one hand, yay, not a crazy! On the other, yay, yet another multimillionaire who can self fund his way to another office :/

I guess it comes down to a question of priorities.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The video should've been blocked not on the grounds that it's inflammatory, but because the "selling baby parts" crap is demonstrably false. Now right-wingers are gonna say Twitter's out to get them, when in reality Twitter does absolutely nothing about trolls and neo-nazis.

It is a Trump era media gimmick though, and like PNM said this will get her attention on right wing news platforms and far more viewership, then if the ad had just run normally.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The way this works is for repeat of 2006 primary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Tennessee,_2006

Corker won with just 48%.

And 2010 Governor Primary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_gubernatorial_election,_2010

Haslam won with just 47%

The key in both was you had two very Conservative candidates running. One from the East and one from the West, splitting the Conservative vote and allowing the more moderate candidate to win in both instances.

In order for another Chattanooga or Knoxville moderate to pull this off, there would need to be a far right candidate from the East jump in as well and split right-wing vote with Blackburn.  

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This is why the GOP is so screwed up. The primaries dome down to a crook versus a fringe extremist. 


Or a deeply flawed incumbent versus the fringe extremist.