1.0 link 117674 <![CDATA[KKK Ad Runner Loses TN Primary In Landslide]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/08/kkk-ad-runner-loses-tn-pr_n_117674.html Being linked to "big oil" turned into a big problem for Tennessee Republican freshman Rep. David Davis, who became the first congressman from that state to lose in a primary in more than four decades. ...

Meanwhile, in the 9th District, in Memphis, a racially charged Democratic primary ended with an incumbent congressman trouncing the opponent who ran an ad linking him to the Ku Klux Klan.

Unofficial results showed Democrat Steve Cohen with 79 percent of the vote to 19 percent...

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