Are the wheels falling off of Corker wagon?
2006-10-02
Source: Tennessean.com
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rss feedThere's a new political parlor game in town, rivaling the popularity of Mr. Mustard did it with a wrench. It's called: How Bob Corker got in the ditch.
The former Chattanooga mayor's bid for the U.S. Senate, which would appear to be a mortal lock on paper, has gone dramatically off track in the view of almost everyone except hard-core Republican partisans.
As a respectable GOP candidate with a mostly good record in public office, Corker should be breezing toward the finish in a recently red state against a Democrat from a hotly controversial family, Rep. Harold Ford Jr.
But this is a horse race; make no mistake about it. The trends have all been toward Ford, a five-term congressman from Memphis who seems defiant in the face of expectations.
The Ford camp claimed last week that internal polling shows the Democrat has opened a 45 percent to 37 percent lead after moving steadily upward since the August primaries. Internal polls should be taken with a grain of salt, but the Corker camp, tellingly, responded only that its polls show that Corker "is in a strong position to win this race." Later, Corker cited a Zogby poll giving him a 47 percent to 42 percent edge.
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