speculating whether Democrats can perhaps pick up a sixth seat (the most likely prospect is the open seat in Tennessee that Majority Leader Bill Frist is vacating)
Don't bet on Ford winning, he may try to distance himself from his uncle- charged in the Tennessee waltz sting- but once Coker wins the nomination, and he will win it, Ford wont stand a chance.
TV ads at this point, Fords are full of only half truths (what a surprise) and Coker is about himself, his experience, his faith, including one with his momma :) Both Hillary and Bryant have yet to have TV ads here in the Chattanooga area.
I live next door to Tennessee in NC. If Al Gore could not win TN in 2000, my gut feeling is that there is no way that a Dem from a corrupt political family can take this seat away from the Pubbies.