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...noted the appointment of Gates to the Baker commission last year. There is also the fact that Rumsfeld has long been resented by many Bush 41 loyalists, who recall the way Rumsfeld schemed to get Bush appointed director of the CIA in 1976 to prevent him from becoming Gerald Ford's running mate that year. But there were more pressing reasons for Rumsfeld to go--and quickly. "Baker wasn't going to let his report come out," says a Gates aide, "so that Rummy could stomp all over it." As for Bush 41, he is staying above the nitty-gritty...
...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...
...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...
...Oppenheimer, however, thinks the election eve ads Corker put out attacking Ford's family - his father is a once-indicted former Congressman, his uncle awaiting a bribery trial from his state lawmaker past in Memphis - kept Ford on the defensive in the late stages. Corker also benefited from Ford's ill-advised attempt to disrupt a Corker press conference late in the race, adds Oppenheimer...
...same voters that denied Al Gore his home state in 2000 denied Ford a shot at history...