Day 42: Tennessee

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Looks like although Gore didn't win his state, he had an impact on the political geography.

Yes, of course he did. Unlike Lurch he has (or at least had) some appeal to the Yellow Dogs in Mid Tennessee (have a look at the 2004 results by Congressional District and compare them with the 2000 results by post-2002 Congressional District. Very telling). If he'd not taken TN for granted he'd have won the state and the White House. Now if only Gore had remembered that "All politics is local"...

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even in 2000, he was "from DC and not Tennessee".

People back in Carthage still love him though

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Didn't they vote 67% for him in 2000?  One of Gore's best non-black dominated southern counties.

Smith county was 66.4%, Carthage itself something like 74%.