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...Most of the media attention was centered on the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Tennessee, Harold Ford Jr., and why not? He's young, attractive and black-and you know how dangerously sexy those people are. But there was enough other action around the country-the attack on the sex scenes in Webb's novels, sex-related claims against Democratic congressional candidates in New York and Minnesota-for the outlines of the new Republican strategy to become clear. Even President Bush leaped on a New Jersey court decision favorable to homosexual couples, calling it another case of liberal judicial...
...Ford's crime was his attendance, along with 3,000 other people, at a Super Bowl party sponsored by Playboy magazine last year. This inspired the Republicans to run their now famous ad featuring a scantily clad white actress who claimed to have met Ford at the party and then, in the punch line, pooched her lips, winked and whispered, "Harold, call me." A second ad accused Ford of having "Hollywood values," for what it said was his support of gay marriage and the distribution of morning-after birth-control pills to teenagers...
...Neither claim is true. It remains to be seen what, if any, effect these ads will have, but Ford responded immediately with a spot featuring average Tennesseans expressing their disgust with the Republicans. A woman named Maura Satchell says, "My son's life is on the line in Iraq, and they're putting out these ads just to distract...
...Gets Nervous in Tennessee In the race for the Senate, Harold Ford wasn't supposed to have much appeal outside his home base of Memphis. But now that he is in a virtual dead heat with his Republican opponent, the race is getting down and dirty
...Gets Nervous in Tennessee In the race for the Senate, Harold Ford wasn't supposed to have much appeal outside his home base of Memphis. But now that he is in a virtual dead heat with his Republican opponent, the race is getting down and dirty