Red wall or rising blue wave? Tennessee’s midterms split along party lines
A flag and signs mark the entrance to the polling place at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church on Election Day. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
The national blue wave in the Nov. 3 midterm elections either raised the tide for Democrats in Tennessee or crashed into, but never topped, the red wall around the hold Republicans have on state government.
It depends on which side of the still intact partisan divide is doing the talking.
Republicans point to the results and who won. Democrats point to the competitiveness of the races.
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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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