Fact-Checking Fred

Fred Thompson's lazy campaign is already off to a rocky start with the truth. Yesterday the campaign released a web video about Thompson claiming that, "Fred went on to win re-election by the largest margin in Tennessee history."

But the claim made by the Fred Thompson campaign is factually wrong. Since Tennessee voters started electing their Senators in 1913, Tennessee Senators have won re-election to the Senate 20 times. The largest percentage margin achieved by a Tennessee Senator was 61.2% achieved by Al Gore Sr. in 1958 (Thompson is ranked #14 out of 20 with a 24.55% margin).

In 2000 Bill Frist won re-election by a margin of 634,292, the largest vote margin in Tennessee history. (Thompson is ranked #3 out of 20 with a margin of 436,617 votes.)

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Either they lied on purpose or they can't count?

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SandyH on September 12, 2007 at 04:02 PM

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