One of the last remnants of rural Democrat dominance. It had been the district of Cordell Hull, Joe L. Evins, Al Gore (both father and son) and Jim Cooper (before he carpetbagged it over to my district here in Nashville). The GOP didn’t elect a Republican from 1920 (when Hull was knocked out for a single term) until Van Hilleary in 1994. Had Hilleary not left in 2002, it’s unlikely the Dems would’ve gotten it back.
Lincoln Davis had an input in getting the seat partly redrawn for him and Janice Bowling was underfunded. Davis fooled a lot of folks, pretending to be Conservative at home and voting liberal in DC (a time honored Democrat practice, from Al Gore to Jim Sasser, et al), until folks figured out he was full of crap and finally tossed him in 2010.
As I said, even if Stewart manages an upset, his first vote will be for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker. Something the DesJarlais campaign should remind everyone, and why all the dirt is being thrown at him... to aide the Zero-Reid-Pelosi Radical Marxist agenda, and Stewart is the guy to carry their water.
Dr. D sent out an email today telling folks Pelousy’s “out-of-state SuperPAC is coming in to flood YOUR airwaves all the way from California.”
We already know a lot of his campaign funding has come from out-of-state corporations and PACs. I guess he figures what’s a little more from Pelousy? *spit* My money says Lincoln Davis is behind connecting those two. He’s definitely behind this horrid smear campaign.
Dr. D keeps reminding voters, with his ads, about Stewart’s support of ObamaCare and Obama’s agenda. I don’t know if it will be enough or not. I hope so. I worry about Rutherford Co. being in our district now. A lotta libs in Murfreesboro. And Pubs and Indies there don’t know about Stewart’s history of corruption.
A lot of us are on pins and needles.