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Time To Blame The Donuts

By Kleinheider Posted on April 21, 2008 at 7:49 am

Colby Sledge reports that during an appearance at Vanderbilt University, Tom “Captain Awesome” Lee and Michael Powell, former operatives for Harold Ford, Jr. pointed to the lack of support for their man in the suburbs as the reason for their man’s loss in 2006:

During a panel that was supposed to be about how the media is covering this year’s campaign, Lee and Powell spoke pretty candidly about how Ford lost to Sen. Bob Corker because of the suburbs — particularly in Williamson and Sumner Counties, and even in areas that had previously supported Democratic candidates.

In counties around the state’s major cities, they said, their campaign lost two points from voters who supported John Kerry in 2004.

Was it really the donut counties that kept Ford from victory or was it simply that he did not, in the end, get the historic turn out from his base in West Tennessee that he needed to match the Republican stronghold of East Tennessee?

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2 Responses to “Time To Blame The Donuts”

  1. LeftWingCracker writes
    April 21st, 2008 10:39 am

    Spot on, sir, had he supported the Democratic nominee for his old seat from the very beginning, he would not have alienated his base to the point that they abandoned him. He has no one to blame but himself.

    Besides, if they thought Jr. would win Williamson or Sumner counties, they’re either idiots or hittin’ the pipe…

  2. Wintermute writes
    April 21st, 2008 12:34 pm

    Harold Jr. & Sr.’s complicity in nepotically trying to sneak Jake Ford in against Cohen probably cost Jr. many white liberal votes, while Jake as a candidate may have lowered Memphis black turnout below what it could have been.

    There was also a bipartisan blogger attempt to warn the rest of the state about just how bad the Ford Disease was.

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