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Resistance to the Death?
The Tennessee Democratic establishment has the potential in 2018 to “resist” its way into continuing its decades-long slow sinking.
The evidence? As of this writing the TDP’s website’s home page urges visitors to “Join the Resistance,” the…
The Amazing Disappearing Voter
The number of people who make decisions about who leads the city of Knoxville is getting smaller all the time, which means that the number of people who decide everything for everyone in Knoxville is getting smaller all the time as well.…
Dogged by Definitions
A cardinal rule of political campaigning is to define yourself before your opponent defines you.
The campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination offers an object lesson for political candidates and would-be candidates: Take care…
Gov. Tim Burchett: a Possibility, Possibly
The reaction among Republicans locally to those three words extends from, “Darn right,” to, “Can’t see it,” to the most important three words of all in a statewide campaign: “Where’s the money?”
Burchett, Knox County’s mayor, is…
Gov. Bill Haslam: Political Options, but the Air Is Thin
Gov. Bill Haslam isn’t ruling out a U.S. Senate race somewhere down the political road.
He isn’t ruling one in, either. Yet. But if he wants to stay in elected office he doesn’t have many options. As with oxygen, the political options…
A Democratic Path to Tennessee Victories?
For Tennessee Democrats, it was the same old, same old result: the 2016 elections saw the state overwhelmingly vote for Donald Trump for president and increase the GOP’s margin to 74 seats in the state’s 99-member House of Representatives.…