Tennessee Election Results:Phil Roe,Steve Cohen Win

Tennessee Election Results:Phil Roe,Steve Cohen Win-Tennessee election results are in and Phil Roe is the big winner tonight.Phil Roe has managed to beat freshman Rep. David Davis by a 500-vote margin in the very Republican 1st District in the northeastern corner of the state.David Davis unwillingly made history by being the first Tennessee congressman to lose a primary since 1966 after a damaging campaign in which he was accused of selling out to oil companies.With all precincts reporting, Roe had 25,916 votes, or 50 percent of the vote, to Davis’ 25,416 votes, or 49 percent.Unofficial results in the 9th District, in Memphis, where a racially charged Democratic primary campaign ended with an ad featuring the Ku Klux Klan,showed Democrat Steve Cohen with 79 percent of the vote to 19 percent for Nikki Tinker, who is a black corporate lawyer.The campaign turned nasty when Tinker ran a television ad juxtaposing photos of Cohen, who is Jewish, and a hooded Ku Klux Klan member.Tinker’s supporters argued the district, which is 60 percent black and 35 percent white, should be represented by a black candidate.
Tinker said her ad linked Cohen to the KKK because he opposed a 2005 effort to remove a statue of Confederate Gen.The ad drew condemnation from Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

US Catholic Voters Could Make The Difference In 2008

Pope Benedict XVI is not the only Catholic in America right now, there are more than 70 million Catholics in the country and their votes are up for grabs.Furthermore Catholics voters have an astounding track record, picking the winner in eight of the last nine presidential elections.
Pope Benedict XVI has the possibility to guide these people of faith during his first U.S. visit.John Allen, CNN’s senior Vatican analyst stated:

“Benedict XVI is not a superdelegate riding into town to deliver a key endorsement,” “On the other hand, I think it would also be terribly naive to think there’s no political subtext to the Pope’s presence in the United States.”

With 51 percent of American Catholics strongly supporting the idea that abortion should be legal in most or all cases,McCain and the eventual Democrat nominee have some seducing and convincing to do.