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Tennessee’s Harold Ford Aims to Become First Black Senator From the South Since Reconstruc

by Democracy Now (reposted)
One of the most closely watched races this election is in Tennessee. Representative Harold Ford is running against Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Majority Leader Bill Frist. The race has gotten increasingly close in recent weeks. Democrats hope that this seat will be one of the six seats needed to regain their majority.
Harold Ford is a five-term Democratic Congressman who comes from a political family – his father, Harold Ford Sr., served as a Congressman in the district currently represented by his son. Seven other Fords have also held political office in the state. If Ford is elected - he will be the first black Senator from a southern state since Reconstruction.

Mike Wenger joins me now from Washington, DC. He is the Acting Vice President for Communications at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

* Mike Wenger, Acting Vice President for Communications at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

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