In 2006, Dems did very well in the upper or peripheral regions of the south.
Phil Bredesen of Tennessee and Brad Henry of Oklahoma, both incumbents, won landslide reelections that year, and Mike Bebee of Arkansas picked up the seat vacated by Mike Huckabee. One year later Steve Beshear won his race in Kentucky by wide margins. Harold Ford Jr. came close to beating Bob Corker for the TN senate seat, and democrats held on to all of their seats in the region, and even picked up one in North Carolina.
Will we ever see Dems achieve the same success in that region of the country?
if another Clintonesque figure emerges, then possibly. Otherwise, NFW.
