States which are the least likely to have all their counties go to one candidate

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

The closest to a Dem sweep.

Jim Blanchard (D) v. Bill Lucas (R), 1986:



Blanchard won 68/31. Including a 73/26 win in Lucas' home county (Wayne).

God bless Ottawa county

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Until Bredesen's re-election, I would have said TN. Amazing that a Dem carried every county in E. Tennessee. Good job Phil!

What a sad mandate for murder.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Until Bredesen's re-election, I would have said TN. Amazing that a Dem carried every county in E. Tennessee. Good job Phil!

What a sad mandate for murder.

I assume you're referring to the TennCare cuts, which really made me angry as well. What was really dumb about them was that TN is surrendering two dollars in federal money for every one dollar it is saving in state money. I'm sure there are forty-nine other states that won't mind taking that federal cash.

Exactly.  And he ran in 2002 on using his health care management experience and business acumen to fix TennCare.  Instead, he used the state sales tax winfall to make himself look fiscally responsible and turned around and cut people's health care safety net out from under them.  What a (D)ope.

He's so personally wealthy that he cannot and does not understand the struggles of the most needy Tennesseans.  Unfortunately, neither do the majority of Tennesseans - as was proved by the results of the election.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

I agree with you that Bredesen is way too conservative. Unfortunately Tennessee probably isn't going to elect a liberal governor.

Fortunately, Tennessee probably isn't going to elect a latte-sipping, manhattan-loving ideological "liberal".  We have, however, had Governors who were passionate about civil rights, cared about issues like health care and jobs, and supported a progressive income tax (that I personally dont' support).  We have a name for that kind of Governor, and that name was "Republican".

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

I agree with you that Bredesen is way too conservative. Unfortunately Tennessee probably isn't going to elect a liberal governor.

Fortunately, Tennessee probably isn't going to elect a latte-sipping, manhattan-loving ideological "liberal".  We have, however, had Governors who were passionate about civil rights, cared about issues like health care and jobs, and supported a progressive income tax (that I personally dont' support).  We have a name for that kind of Governor, and that name was "Republican".

LOL  I often wonder if you're actually serious when you write stuff like that.

In any case, are you trying to refer to incompetent fools like Don Sundquist?

I'm referring to Governor Lamar Alexander, who is well-regarded in the black community and appointed the first African-American justice on the state supreme court.  I'm referring to both Alexander and Governor Sundquist who did support and fight for a progressive income tax.  Don Sundquist was faced with a difficult political situation and may have made some mistakes, but he was anything but incompetent.