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Those are huge numbers for Mitchell - I thought Kerr would be closer.

That was Cunningham. My beef with Mitchell is that he'll be a pushover for the Lambert Mafia.

Finbarr Saunders is slightly behind Jeff Ownenby in early voting. Roh roh. And a surprise to me, I might add.

If these #s hold, Saunders may be a casuality of a large # of Rs voting in the primary - people who really don't pay much attention to Commission, and just pull the R lever reflexively.

Or it could be his support of the TYP. (Ownenby, you may remember, is the one who said that the TYP wanted to put drug addicts and the mentally ill next door to "your children and grandparents.")

God knows Peabody will take credit for it.

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AP calls it for Haslam.

Now that there aren't any more pesky Democrats on the Blount County Commission the corrupt thugs on that board can steal at will again. Who will care?

This is exactly what I feared would happen in the Campfield race. Somebody please tell me why Steve Hill decided to get in.

Absolutely shocking. Rachel is dead on in my opinion with her theory. It looks like a really really bad for year me and my fellow Democrats.

TN-Sen 21: Separated by less than 100 votes (no absentees in) and with one precinct left to report, challenger Jeff Yarbro leads 39-year-incumbent Doug Henry.

The shock: Yarbro has campaigned to Henry's left, actually coming out in favor of things like reproductive choice.

According to KNS, old Zach had a really gracious concession speech:

“ . . . But the best candidate doesn’t always win.”

First off Congratulations to Bill Haslam, he will be OUR next Governor and I fully support that. Congratulations Tim Burchett our new mayor. Now to Stacey Campfield and Randy Walker, IT IS ON, I am coming for both of you, I WILL be our NEXT State Senator in District 7. Time and place men, I am READY for you!

What a lovely Friday morning,especially in the 4th district.

Hurray for the 2nd district!

Hurray for a genuine candidate who actually LIVES in the district and has real live breathing supporters who will knock on doors and call you on the phone!

Boohoo for nasty mendacious mailers, robocalls, and a flood of yard signs that somehow end up in public right-of-ways instead of people's yards. None of that worked for poor Don "they're taking my party for a ride" Daugherty.

So despite losses elsewhere (where real Democrats were much less present than "Demopublicans") the Democratic party is alive and well in the 2nd district.

If the teaparty and TNGOP was really serious about our "personal responsibility" to reduce healthcare costs, then they might be talking just a little about this report from the WSJ, but then obesity is that Obama woman's issue ain't it.-

The report warns that the problem is only getting worse. From 2007 to 2009, 2.4 million more adults became overweight. And because obesity is tied to a number of illnesses, including heart disease, diabetes and certain kinds of cancer, the medical costs of a person suffering from obesity are $1,429 more than a person of average weight.

Although the numbers of adults who are obese vary from state to state, the lowest percentage of obesity does not fall below 18% in any single state. The average is more than 25%.

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Sounds like another TNDP Executive Committee primary decision coming down the pike...

Yep.

Only this time, the beneficiary of the crossover Republican vote (Henry) is the Anointed One. I'm sure there's nothing "incurably uncertain" to be found here.

(Interesting parallel developing here, as Yarbro was part of the legal team from Bass Berry & Sims who defended the TNDP's case against Kurita.)