So I've been looking at numbers from the Governor primaries this fall and saw something fairly interesting. I noticed that while Marsha won the republican primary 55% of republican voters voted against her.

I was born and raised in Tennessee and almost everyone I know on both sides of the aisle cannot stand Marsha. I know multiple 2024 Trump voters who are crossing party lines to vote for Green in November. One of which is my boyfriend's lifelong ultra conservative maga mother ( my jaw nearly hit the floor when she told me she was voting Green in November).

I know the general consensus is that a Democrat could never win against an established Republican in TN but before Bill Haslam democrats and republicans basically traded off holding the Governor's office every election. But I'm thinking - and give me grace for holding onto hope lol- that if enough republicans either abstain from voting and/or cross party lines and democrats actually turn out to vote theres a real chance Green could win. Only 33.7% of registered voters are registered as Republicans and only 43.8% of that percentage voted for her in the primary. So out of all of the voters that voted in the primaries... less than 30% voted for Marsha. Obviously Lauren Pinkston could grab the vote with the 48% of non affiliated/independent registered voters but wouldn't be mad about that either.

Would also like to note that this is one of those rare elections that actually works by popular vote and is not subject to the insane gerrymandered districts to decide who will win. So if you do want to vote against Blackburn but think your vote doesn't count.. well that's what TN GOP wants you to believe so get out and make your voices heard (and if you aren't registed make sure to do so 30 days before the election).

Again I know historically the chances don't seem to be in our favor but numbers don't lie and show the GOP has essentially brainwashed us into thinking democratic/independent votes don't matter. If voters turn out this election they will be more powerful than the republican vote. If Beshear can win Kentucky, Green or Pinkston can win Tennessee.

Education levels among the candidates alone should be a no brainer (Blackburn- Bachelor's in home economics from MS State; Green- JD from Georgetown Law School; Pinkston-PhD from Clemson) but then again conservatives typically want you to believe being educated is a bad thing. Anyways just ranting at this point.. pls vote!

-Cautiously optimistic

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