Cohen Reacts To His Late Arriving Cavalry

By Kleinheider Posted on August 7, 2008 at 6:12 pm

Steve Cohen reacts to the love shown him by Barack Obama and Harold Ford, Jr. in response to attacks by Nikki Tinker carrying racial and religious overtones:

Reached in his car this afternoon, Cohen said he had not asked Obama to intervene in the 9th District race.

“I think the national bloggers and the national media have focused in the extreme amount of negative campaigning that has gone on here, especially in the last three or four days,” Cohen said. “There’s been a lot of calls for Obama to state his distaste for this.”

Cohen said he expects to win today’s Democratic Party Primary.

“The Memphis voter is much more sophisticated than the Tinker camp thought,” he added. “They’re going to vote on issues and character and achievement, and not on race.”

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