Nashville Voters React to Election Results

A day after Tennesseans sent Republican Bob Corker to the U-S Senate, voters here are assessing the national impact of the mid-term elections.In Nashville, teacher Susan Chapani (sha-PAN-ee) says she’s excited because people voted for change by electing a Democratic majority in Congress. 

 “All kinds of people all over the country are sick of the policies with George Bush, and they would like to see someone kind of put the reins on that.”

Chapani admits that Tennessee didn’t match the national trend, electing a Republican to replace the retiring Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.

But real estate developer Mike Hartley says talking about “change” doesn’t mean people know what it might look like in Washington.

“I think a lot of people are saying all of these things today, all these big, grand ideas. I don’t know what it really means. I’m not sure all of the smart people who are saying all of this know very much either. I think people want change but they’re not really quite sure what that is.”

Record turnout for a mid-term election led to a tight race between Corker and Democratic Congressman Harold Ford Junior. Voters in at least one Nashville precinct waited in line until after midnight. Corker received roughly 38-percent of the votes in Nashville and won by a margin of only 50-thousand votes statewide.