👍🏼Phil Bredesen holds double-digit lead over Marsha Blackburn in US Senate race, new MTSU poll shows

[spanone]

Former Gov. Phil Bredesen has a 10-point lead over U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn in the race to succeed U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, according to a new poll from Middle Tennessee State University.

The poll, released Thursday, found 45 percent of 600 registered Tennessee voters said they would choose Bredesen, a Democrat and former Nashville mayor, if the election were immediately held.

Blackburn, a Brentwood Republican, netted 35 percent, with another 17 percent of respondents saying they were not sure.

Three percent of respondents declined to answer.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/05/tennessee-us-senate-2018-poll-phil-bredesen-marsha-blackburn/485649002/

[Demsrule86]

1. Please let it hold! I hate her with the passion of a 1000 burning suns...I have to turn off anything

where I hear her whiny snotty voice.

[spanone]

2. You and Me BOTH!!!!

[a kennedy]

9. despise her almost as much as that Virginia Foxx from North Carolina......

https://foxx.house.gov/ ugh..... always so high and mighty. Despise her.

[gratuitous]

15. An encouraging poll

I'm not sure how Blackburn goes about picking up any further support; she and Bredeson are both known commodities in Tennessee. But I hope this poll spurs Tennessee Democrats to redouble their efforts statewide. Democrats have had great results in Virginia, Alabama, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin so far this cycle. Let's add Tennessee to the list!

[mchill]

17. She is the worst of the worst

schills for the GOP on the planet. This news is wonderful!

[Pepsidog]

21. History will not be kind to this wretched person

[tblue37]

3. K&R for visibility. nt

[NewJeffCT]

4. This would be a sweet pickup

especially with the map so badly skewed against Democrats this year.

[workinclasszero]

5. Go dems!

[Lint Head]

6. Excellent!!!! I used to work for Phil Bredesen. He is a smart and wise person.

If he got into the Senate it would be a wonderful thing for this country.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. I hope he wins in a landslide!

[oasis]

8. Blackburn's credibility continues to erode. nt

[SouthernIrish]

10. I hope that this stays the course.

It would be the first time in a long time that I coukd say that I am proud to be a Tennessean.

[beachbum bob]

11. until Bredesen can be at 55% and the undecideds are 3% or less, this poll really means

little at this point. The good thing is, almost all of tennessee knows who Blackburn is and who Bredesen is...and he needs to get his support well above the 50% line. Blackburn sitting at 35% isn't a good starting point for her to say the least

[Paladin]

12. Would love to see Blackburn go down in flames. (nt)

[iluvtennis]

13. Love it! #BlueWaveIsComing

[packman]

14. Made me smile - happy news

Blackburn is an idiot, a fool and an asshole - then again, I am a gentleman and won't use harsher words.

[Stuart G]

16. Here is Phil Bredesen's web site where you can donate..(he has a good chance to win)

http://www.bredesen.com/

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. Those seem like the numbers of a good candidate at the right time!

Fabulous news!

[spanone]

19. Bredesen was a very popular governor....!

[Dopers_Greed]

20. Hopeful, but we'll see if the usual happens

Which is the race continues to tighten until it's dead even, then the Republicans manage to show up at the last minute with a "missing" ballot box or laptop to put them over the top.