The Week That Was
Following Frist
Embattled Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Clark got another dose of bad news in recent days when a Mason-Dixon poll commissioned by The Tennessean and the Chattanooga Times & Free Press showed Tennessee voters prefer his challenger, GOP incumbent Sen. Bill Frist, nearly 3-to-1. That may have something to do with the fact that three out of four of those responding to the poll said they had never heard of the Middle Tennessee State University professor.
Gore slips at home
As bad as the news was for U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Clark, Al Gore didn’t have a lot to cheer about either when another Mason-Dixon poll, this one on the presidential contest, showed his GOP opponent, George W. Bush, 3 percentage points ahead of him in his own home state. The telephone poll of 625 registered voters showed Bush with 46 percent support in Tennessee to Gore’s 43 percent. The 4 percent margin of error means the two are locked in a statistical dead heat. Meanwhile, Green Party candidate Ralph Nader came in at 2 percent, Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan at 1 percent, and the undecided vote at 8 percent.
Coming home
Olympic gold-medal softballer Jennifer McFalls returned to Nashville last week and was greeted at the airport by 100 or so well-wishers, mostly young girls who have been her students at Club K, a softball training facility in Hermitage. McFalls signed dozens of autographs, then headed for baggage claim. Like the Munchkins after Dorothy, the girls followed her and stood vigil while their coach did an on-air interview with Channel 4. She then posed for pictures with her players and let them touch her gold medal. By any definition, it was sweet.
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