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Tennessee was Fred Thompson's turf until the Senator-turned actor abandoned his 2008 presidential hopes on January 22 with his name still on the ballot and early voting already underway. His departure has left the state's Republican primary race tightly split between John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, while Hillary Clinton, who has long enjoyed the loyalty of state Democrats, is expected to easily carry the Democratic primary on Super Tuesday, thanks in part to party faithful who remember her husband carrying the state in the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections with favorite son Al Gore...
...Tennessee's Republican voters appear evenly split between the three major presidential candidates, so too are the state's Republican leaders. Romney has the support of one former governor, Winfield Dunn, and McCain that of another, Don Sundquist. State legislators and other party leaders have similarly split their loyalties between the two. Thompson, widely expected to endorse McCain at a Nashville rally on Saturday...
...This rule hasn't mattered much in past election cycles, when races wrapped up fairly early. This year, though, the two candidates could split the delegate count, dragging the campaign on past...
While the season-opening split with Dartmouth seems so long ago, the Crimson will take its 1-1 Ancient Eight record to Penn (5-12) and Princeton (3-12) this weekend, looking to end a long drought against the two perennial Ivy powerhouses...
This is not the first time that Fowler-Finn has split the committee...