Give Phil Bredesen support, folks! This Dem could win Corker's senate seat in TN!

[cynatnite]

The polling evidence is piling up: The 2018 Tennessee Senate race to replace outgoing Republican Sen. Bob Corker looks like it’s going to be a genuinely competitive campaign with a real opportunity for Democrats to win.

Democrats have a top-notch recruit in former Gov. Phil Bredesen, who won reelection in the state with 69 percent of the vote 12 years ago. On the Republican side, the favored candidate is Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who has President Trump’s key endorsement and a relatively clear path to the nomination.

The surveys paint a tight race: The Washington Examiner reported on Wednesday that new polling showed Bredesen leading Blackburn by 3 points, 46 percent to 43 percent, in a two-way race. This is in Tennessee, a state that Trump won with 61 percent of the vote in 2016.

That poll isn’t necessarily an outlier either. A survey from late last month found Bredesen with a 10-point lead over Blackburn. Based on the polling we do have, RealClearPolitics has Bredesen with a 5-point advantage in the aggregate.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/25/17279368/marsha-blackburn-phil-bredesen-2018-tennessee-senate-race-polls

[dameatball]

1. Already sent a contribution. Bredesen is competent and a (D). His opponent is a nutball.

[cynatnite]

2. Yep, she is. She's not well-liked here...

Listened to some folks in a hospital waiting room trashing her left and right.

[spanone]

3. K&R...