Both sides of partisan divide push Memphis voter turnout
Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Phil Bredesen greets supporters at Interstate Barbecue on South Third Street on Monday, Nov. 5. Candidates are crisscrossing the state in a last-minute push to get voters to the polls Tuesday. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian)
Republican U.S. Senate nominee Marsha Blackburn greets voters at Gibson's Donuts early on Election Day, Nov. 6. Blackburn is among the candidates making a last-minute push for voters in Memphis. (Stan Carroll/Special To The Daily Memphian)
Bill Lee greets Tennessee Republican Party chairman Scott Golden at Another Broken Egg in East Memphis on Monday night, Nov. 5. The event was Lee's last campaign stop to encourage voters to turn out to the polls Tuesday. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian)
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Karl Dean (center right) waits to be introduced Monday, Nov. 5, at an election eve campaign stop in Memphis at the Spiritual Kingdom Church in Orange Mound. (Stan Carroll/Special To The Daily Memphian)
Phil Bredesen supporter James Kincaide cheers as Bredesen speaks to a crowd of supporters at Interstate Barbecue on South Third Street. Bredesen made one last stop in the Memphis barbecue staple to encourage voters to turn out to the polls tomorrow. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian)
John Niven bows his head as Bellevue Baptist Church Rev. Steve Gaines leads a group of Bill Lee supporters in prayer. Lee made the last stop of his campaign trail in Memphis on Monday, Nov. 5, to encourage voters to turn out. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian)
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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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