Poll: Ford catches Corker

[guruoo]

Poll: Corker and Ford about even Tennessee Senate race

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2539926&mesg_id=2539926

[Tippy]

1. If Mason Dixon says the numbers are...43 to 42 for Ford

More than likely you can add anywhere from 3 to 5 for any Democrat they are polling...(Example 46-40 for Ford.....These two polls 99% of the time will only give Democrats higher marks when they see the national trend seperating their numbers to a larger degree..Or they have an attack of conscience... Same is true of Rasmusson......Fords numbers there are probably closer to 53%......

[tnlefty]

2. Yesterday I attended the Battle of the Bands in Chattanooga and there was

a table set up for Ford, but I didn't see anything for Corker - the chickens!

This is today's paper: Q. How would you rate the performance of George W. Bush as president:

Excellent - 17%
Good - 28%
Poor - 37%
Undecided - 2%

And the Corker whine, "This race is being nationalized. It's becoming a referendum to some extent on the Bush administration," Mr. Corker said.:nopity: "I think under normal circumstances, he (Mr. Ford) would have a tough time getting elected in a state like Tennessee."

[H2O]

3. Whoa!

And the Corker whine, "This race is being nationalized. It's becoming a referendum to some extent on the Bush administration," Mr. Corker said. :nopity: "I think under normal circumstances, he (Mr. Ford) would have a tough time getting elected in a state like Tennessee."

When did Porker say this?

[tnlefty]

4. It was in the 10/02 Times/Free press on page A4.

I watched as much of him as I could stomach on WTCI, the local PBS station, last night. He looked like someone had placed him in the grown-ups chair.

Anyway the quote was in relation to the Mason-Dixon poll.

[SharonAnn]

5. Dems call GOP letter with Ford photo 'racist'

On the front page of this morning's Knoxville News Sentinel

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/election/article/0,1406,KNS_630_5043343,00.html

Dems call GOP letter with Ford photo 'racist'
State Republican leader says charge is 'a lot of baloney'

By TOM HUMPHREY, [email protected]
October 5, 2006

NASHVILLE - Democrats say that Tennessee Republicans injected racism into a fund-raising appeal by using "code words" and a photograph of Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Harold Ford Jr. "obviously altered" to make his complexion darker.
State Republican Chairman Bob Davis, who signed the letter deemed offensive by Democrats, says the charge is "a lot of baloney" and the state GOP has launched an active "outreach" program toward minority voters under his leadership.

Ford himself, meanwhile, has questioned whether a Republican National Committee television ad has racial overtones because it depicts a "dark, shadowy figure" resembling the congressman walking toward the camera through an alley.

...

State Democratic Chairman Bob Tuke said the RNC ad is "almost Willie Horton" - a reference to an ad depicting a black criminal used by Republicans against Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis in 1988.

"It has a black man walking toward you in an alley. It suggests danger from a black man who looks like Harold Ford," Tuke said.