How desperate are the Republicans to hold on to the US Senate? Consider the tight race between Democrat Harold Ford and Republican Bob Corker to replace Bill Frist in Tennessee. Ford is an African-American. The Republican National Committee is running an inane ad produced by an outside group that includes racist innuendo about a black man and white woman. Not only has the NAACP denounced the ad, but so has the Corker campaign, calling it "tacky, over the top and is not reflective of the kind of campaign we are running."
A racist appeal in the closing days of a tight Senate race calls to mind Jesse Helms' racist "white hands" ad run against Democrat Harvey Gantt in 1990.
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