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Looking as boyish as a silver-haired 54-year-old can, Bob Corker admits in one of his latest television ads that he isn't "as good-looking" as his opponent Harold Ford Jr. For his part, Ford says in his own ad (with a grin) that if he owned a dog, Corker "would kick...
...Rapid response to Republican attacks has been a key to Ford's unlikely strength in Tennessee. In early October, for example, the Republican candidate, Bob Corker, accused Ford of being pro-amnesty for illegal immigrants. Ford's response was immediate and lethal: an ad claiming that Corker's construction company had employed illegal aliens. In fact, a Corker work site had been raided by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. "Rapid response is a rule I set down for all our candidates this year," says Senator Charles Schumer of New York, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC...
...Former Mayor Bob Corker...
...support from national Democrats could convince conservative Tennesseans to send a young black candidate from a family tainted by political corruption to the Senate. Against all political wisdom and warnings that he was throwing money away, Ford, who had no primary opponents, launched his campaign in April, even while Corker and the other Republican primary candidates launched ugly attacks against each other...
...race has heated up, the issue of race itself has become an ugly part of the campaign. Over the last few weeks, Republicans have aired three questionable ads against Ford, the latest so blatant that Corker condemned it and asked WHIN radio in Gallatin, Tennessee, to stop airing it. In the first 24 seconds, the one-minute ad attacking Ford and his father, and paid for by Tennesseans for Truth, uses the word "black" six times and accuses Ford of favoring African-American issues above others. "His daddy handed him his seat in Congress and his seat in the Congressional...