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I'd bet on Haslam, primary and general, by a large margin in both Isaac Send a noteboard - 27/07/2010 06:04:02 AM
It was the part about him running for any sort of office that made me dismiss him as a possibility, regardless of how poor his (atrocious) grammar might have been :P

I do think, in all seriousness, if it ends up being Bill Haslam vs. Mike McWherter, then things will be okay in my state either way. I just wouldn't want a Ron Ramsey...or a Basil Marceaux, for that matter, being my state's governor. I just feel the two I named, regardless of their party affiliations, might continue the policies of Bredesen, who currently enjoys a ridiculously low 7% disapproval rating according to a poll that was published Sunday in The Tennessean. Tennessee doesn't have a history of having extremely partisan governors and I want that tradition to continue.

But if Basil's the man...oh man, would I laugh and laugh...and then cry at the failings of the democratic system :P


Haslam's got the cash compared to the other candidates, several million bucks in the war chest, the somewhat bizarre method of picking Lt Gov in your state seems to have stamped a bad image on Ramsey I gather, and Wamp apparently wants to secede form the Union or something, so odds favor Haslam versus McWherter and Haslam for the win. McWherter, who would easily pass for a republican in many states, doesn't appear to have the cash or charisma to win unless Haslam produces a tax scandal or something, he's lagging brutally far down in the polls against all three, so ironically his best bet would probably be a mass defection of Dems in the primary to vote the nutjob. Though odds are that would backfire and the loon would get elected :P

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