With less than two weeks to go before the elections, the general consensus is to "follow the money" to see where the two parties think races can be won. In Tennessee, Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. is trying to become the first black Senator from the South since Reconstruction and is locked in a tight battle with Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker.
The Republican National Committee has dedicated a large amount of cash and resources to this race to try and put Corker over the top. However, the RNC has pulled a television ad from the airwaves amid charges of racism. The ad shows a white woman with blond hair and bare shoulders who says she met Ford at a Playboy party and whispers into the camera, "Harold, call me."
The NAACP quickly responded along with many others that the ad plays to racial fears about black men and white women. Ford denounced the ad, saying on the Imus in the Morning show, "the national Republican Party, I think, still believes that we're operating in 1970." Even Bob Corker has gone on the record, calling the ad, "tacky."
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