Jerri Green’s game plan and Marsha Blackburn’s primary numbers
“The great news is you can’t gerrymander a statewide race,” Gubernatorial candidate Jerri Green said. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
In the political roundup:
The numbers and trends challenging and helping Jerri Green’s bid to be Governor.
What Green sees in Marsha Blackburn’s Republican primary vote totals.
Gov. Bill Lee on leaving office and the possible Senate vacancy.
A look at countywide voter turnout in past midterm general elections.
The strategy and road rules of campaign signs. And write-in votes.
Democratic nominee for Tennessee Governor Jerri Green says her campaign has a map that is a possible path to victory in the Nov. 3 statewide general election against Republican nominee Marsha Blackburn.
“We obviously have priority counties,” Green said on WKNO-TV’s “Behind The Headlines.” “We’ve got to get out the vote here in Shelby. That’s where the most Democrats live. But we also have to remind suburban voters that they’re really more purple.”
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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