TN: 1998 Gubernatorial Democratic Primary Election Result

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

New Election: 1998 Tennessee Gubernatorial Democratic Primary Election Results
   
   

1998 Democratic Primary for Governor, "winner" goes on to lose to Don Sundquist.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

This kind of brings up an inevitable question: how did someone named "Hooker" get anywhere in politics?

hahaha!  John Jay Hooker is now (and was in '98) considered a joke candidate with no real stature in either the Dem Party or TN politics.  But back in the '60's, he was a force to be reckoned with - winning the Dem nomination in 1970.  He was the publisher of the now-defunct (unfortunately) Nashville Banner newspaper and quite wealthy.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

hahaha!  John Jay Hooker is now (and was in '98) considered a joke candidate with no real stature in either the Dem Party or TN politics.

... and yet he still managed to win two counties more than Jim Bryson's 2006 total of none.  Says a lot about Bryson, doesn't it?

It says that Tennessee has two counties that will vote for a Democrat no matter what, but no counties that will vote for a Republican no matter what - unless you count the numerous people I talked to that thought Bredesen was the Republican candidate