Thu
Aug 3 2006
08:49 pm
Blount Co. Results
By: R. Neal

Results from WBIR...

Not looking good for Gallagher...

BLOUNT CO. MAYOR

Jerry Cunningham 2155 64%
Joe Gallagher 1211 36%

This one's a little closer...

COUNTY COMMISSION 2-B

Mike Lewis 139 54%
Lowell Ridings 120 46%

And this one...

COUNTY COMMISSION 7-A

Steve Hargis 137 58%
Linda Jo Dees 101 42%

Blount Co. isn't getting suckered by a wheel tax...

WHEEL TAX

Against 2186 65%
For 1159 35%

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And Bob Corker with a 2:1

Submitted by Andy Axel on Thu, 2006/08/03 - 9:40pm.

And Bob Corker with a 2:1 lead over Bryant (4%)

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And at WKRN, the Big Dog is

Submitted by Andy Axel on Thu, 2006/08/03 - 9:45pm.

And at WKRN, the Big Dog is speaking for HFJ right now.

(link...)

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And now Steve Gill is giving

Submitted by Andy Axel on Thu, 2006/08/03 - 9:58pm.

And now Steve Gill is giving his "unbiased" commentary. Whatever.

Hilleary has supposedly conceded as of 9pm.

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Oh, yeah. I only caught a

Submitted by R. Neal on Thu, 2006/08/03 - 10:10pm.

Oh, yeah. I only caught a few seconds of that. After they cut the Big Dog off. I couldn't believe it. He's been out of the spotlight? He's out of touch? Right. They should have let Clinton talk, and left the right wing bloviating for later.

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Gill on the upcoming

Submitted by Andy Axel on Thu, 2006/08/03 - 10:16pm.

Gill on the upcoming Bredesen / Bryson matchup:

"Well, David beat Goliath."

So does that mean that the only thing that Bryson can count upon is divine intervention?

Gee. I know that the GOP likes to live through their faith, but c'mon.

(And our favorite failed GOP House candidate-cum-failed talk radio host is now whining about how Bredesen and Corker can just punch in the buttons at the "anytime teller machine." Cry me an effin' river, Gill.)

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Yeah. With 83% of the

Submitted by R. Neal on Thu, 2006/08/03 - 10:28pm.

Yeah. With 83% of the precincts in, Bryson is at 10,029 in his primary v. Bredesen's 12,104 in his. In Republican controlled Knox County. In traditional Republican stronghold East Tennessee.

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statewide

Submitted by Andy Axel on Thu, 2006/08/03 - 10:36pm.

(29% in, 9:31 CDT)

Breddie: 181,226

Bryson: 76,266

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OMG. Thanks for that. I

Submitted by R. Neal on Thu, 2006/08/03 - 10:09pm.

OMG. Thanks for that. I caught it just in time.

That's the Bill Clinton I saw on Little Rock local TV news circa 1984 when I was down there on business and flipped on the motel room TV. I called the Mrs. and said "Hey, you ought to see this goober down here on the local news talking about education in Arkansas. This guy gets it. And amazingly, he's a Democrat. He ought to run for president."

And he may have been a DLC triangulating Blue Dog Democrat, but my life was better on his watch, even if I paid more taxes.

At any rate, that's a pretty strong endorsement for HFJ. HFJ is no WJC, but when the chips are down and the Senate D leader (hopefully majority leader) says toe the line on an important issue or forget any DNC support, at least we'll have that.

P.S. We had seriously thought about coming over there for that event. Now I wish we had. It would have been far more exciting and inspiring than the pathetic, depressing local election results we stayed around to watch.

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Winfield Dunn on Jim Bryson:

Submitted by Andy Axel on Thu, 2006/08/03 - 10:20pm.

Paraphrasing, "Jim Bryson is the 2nd coming of Howard Baker."

Uh huh.

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