Ty Cobb explains to these voters why it's important for Democratic hacks to keep their jobs with the legislature.
The whole Tennessee political world is watching today's special election in House District 62. For weeks, partisans with nothing better to do have converged on little towns like Shelbyville and Bell Buckle and Eagleville to plant yard signs, knock on doors and staff phone banks. Even House Democratic leader Gary Odom went door-to-door. On the issues, Republican Pat Marsh and Democrat Ty Cobb are like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Neither has a clue. Voters don't care much, either. Only 4,100 people cast ballots during early voting. No one expects too many more than that to vote today. But so what? To the winners might go the right to gerrymander their enemies out of existence, and the livelihoods of untold numbers of political hacks are riding on the outcome. Should Marsh win, Republicans would hold 51 seats in the House—three more than Democrats—heading into the 2010 elections.
