Postby drawscore » Sun Apr 26, 2015 5:33 pm
>>>A liberal Democrat not being able to win a state in the heart of Dixie is hardly surprising, hometown boy or not.<<<
Tennessee was not a Confederate state, and besides, he DID get elected in Tennessee, to the Senate, prior to becomming Clinton's VP.
Wikipedia says: "Gore was an elected official for 24 years. He was a Congressman from Tennessee (1977–85) and from 1985 to 1993 served as one of the state's Senators."
That means the people of his district in Tennessee elected him to congress four times ('76,'78, '80, and '82), and twice, statewide, to the senate ('84 and '90), before he was tapped by Clinton to be his running mate for the '92 election. The Clinton-Gore ticket, in '92 and '96, carried Tennessee both times.
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