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...Ford beat Corker soundly in urban precincts (63 to 37 points in Memphis, 60-39 in Nashville) but Corker swept virtually every rural county. The addition of a ban on gay marriage to the ballot, which passed overwhelmingly by 80%, in the end helped Corker, despite Ford's continued campaigning to the center, at one stop promising to be a "Jesus-loving, gun-supporting" Senator...
...there are any plum political posts left for the G.O.P. in a changing Congress, party leaders should reserve one for Bob Corker, so far the only Republican to take one of the highly contested races for control of the Senate, now hinging on Virginia...
...Buoyed by rural Christian evangelicals, Corker outlasted five-term Congressman Harold Ford Jr. by 51% to 48% of the vote, ending for now Ford's bid to become the first African American from the South since Reconstruction to join the Senate...
...race also featured a lot of star power on Ford's behalf, with stump visits by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. So great was Ford's appeal to younger, white professionals that Corker only won his home county, which comprises Chattanooga, where Corker was mayor, by less than 10 points. But Ford did not gain enough crossover votes from the fallout of Republican attack ads many (including Corker) condemned as offensive and racist...
...demonstrating that a Democrat could be staunch in discriminating against gays. Ultimately Ford's hope was to build a rainbow coalition, one that would unite rednecks and the ghetto in mutual homophobia. If I lived in Tennessee, I couldn't have voted for either Ford or his opponent, Bob Corker. That doesn't make the style of Ford's defeat any less disappointing. But at least it makes it poetic...