Battle for Congress' soul
2006-11-02
Source: New York Daily News
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rss feedThe race for Tennessee's open Senate seat is a down-and-dirty slugfest over God, race, relatives and roots.
Democratic Rep. Harold Ford would be the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction if he can overcome an uphill struggle against Republican Bob Corker, a white businessman and former mayor of Chattanooga.
"You know what it means if Harold is elected ... It won't mean a victory of race, it will mean a victory of going beyond race," former President Bill Clinton said yesterday at the predominantly black Temple Deliverance Church of God in Christ.
Ford, 36, has said U.S. policy in Iraq is not working, while Corker, 54, wants to stay the course. That policy got Corker a big plug Tuesday from Laura Bush.
Corker "will be a champion of our men and women in the U.S. military," the First Lady told a rally in a Nashville suburb. "Bob Corker stands with our troops."
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