Democrats in Tennessee Demolish Race Factor in Politics
Helping to chart the path in color blind politics- primaries in the State of Tennessee demonstrated a sophiticated level of race free elections. According to Tom Baxter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution- Eugene Ray, a Balck American, secured the
seat as Mayor of Bedford
County, Tennessee in a county with an African American population of only 8.5 percent of the area. Over in Hardeman County, Tennessee- Willie Spencer, also an African American captured the job of county mayor in a community with only forty-one per cent of its citizens coming from the African American community. Messrs. Ray and Hardeman will serve as the second and third African American county mayors in this state. In the Democratic Contest for the nomination for the United States Senate Seat occupied by retiring Majority Leader Bill Frist- African American Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., secured the Democratic baton to run in the November 7, 2006 Election for this seat in the world`s most deliberative body. Apparently, Congressman Ford can ligitimately hope to become his state`s next United States Senator. Marcus D. Pohlmann, a
college Political Science Proffessor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee- said of this year`s contests- ``if the crowded congressional races went on racial lines but evidence exist that race could prove irrelevant and ` those two races suggest that if African-American candidates make the right kind of appeal, small- town voters in Tennessee will vote for them.`
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