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lamar alexander, the current governor, each had a conservative challenger and in each case the establishment candidate won. what makes tennessee a little different in republican primaries maybe than these other states where we ve seen mitt romney struggle? i think one of the things that makes tennessee different and significant, chuck is the amount of grass roots voter participation. our people are a little bit ahead of the national curve. they started into a grass roots activism about ten years ago, because ever this they followed the issues very closely. you ve got jobs and the economy as issue number one. you ve got national security as issue number two. i kind of sum it up, freedom, free markets, free people. and the focus of the voter on the specific issues, i think, is what makes our state a little different. they want to choose the best person to go beat barack obama. but it seems if not the sort of, just an easy ideological

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