The Rev. Earle Fisher said it best. "Good wasn’t good enough: what Tennessee’s election results are trying to tell us."

"Shelby County did good. We did significantly better than four years ago. Turnout increased. But good was not what this moment required. We needed to be great. More than 300,000 registered voters in Shelby County still did not participate. Imagine just 100,000 more of them showing up. Not all 300,000. Just one-third.
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Conventional political etiquette designed to protect egos, personalities, relationships and future aspirations should have been subordinated to the urgency of this moment. Anything less represented a failure of political maturity, especially from people who have sworn to put the public interest ahead of their personal feelings.
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In 2022, Republican Bill Lee defeated Democrat Jason Martin by about 32 percentage points. This week, Marsha Blackburn defeated Jerri Green by less than 3 points. That is a nearly 30-point movement in the gubernatorial margin in four years. AP analysis also found that every Tennessee county moved toward Democrats compared with the 2024 presidential election. Democrats flipped six Republican-held state House seats, their biggest multi-seat gain in decades.
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We did good. Next time, good cannot be good enough.

Amen.