Religion-baiting

Election '06 | Tennessee candidates aren’t afraid to use faith in bid to fill open Senate seat | Joel Belz

CHATTANOOGA — If it's conservative Republicans who usually take the rap for too much mixing of politics and religion, Democrat Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee is doing his part to even the score.

The Memphis congressman, now running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Majority Leader Bill Frist, has for several weeks featured a TV commercial in which he addresses the viewer directly from the interior of a church—with a large Christian cross quite deliberately filling the screen just behind his right shoulder.

It's not the kind of political advertising you're used to seeing from modern Democrats. But the bold commercial may be one big reason Ford is now neck-and-neck for the key Senate seat with Republican Bob Corker, former mayor of Chattanooga.

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October 28, 2006, Vol. 21, No. 41

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