Black Political Zone

Harold Ford, Jr. is an African American who has a good chance of winning a U.S. Senate seat from the state of Tennessee. While he's a Democrat, he opposes partial-birth abortion and same-sex marriage. Is this the combination of positions needed to pull over the swing vote (as comedian Chris Rock says, the swing vote is a code word for the white vote)? We shall see. Making the cover of Newsweek recently, the magazine quoted a recent speech Ford gave in Tennessee. He stated:

"The politics of destruction," he shouts, "the politics of those who define and malign people, that's all coming to an end." He asks the audience to "heal and make whole this great country of ours" with "a renewed sense of faith." Pointing to the sky, he tells them that "as long as your faith derives from up there, and not down there, we're going to be OK."

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