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Ford, driven: Harold Ford Jr. goes against a Corker of a candidate in Tennessee.(ELECTION '06 III)(Bob Corker)

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Chattanooga, Tenn.

'HE'S a hugger," says a fan of Harold Ford Jr. while watching the Senate candidate work the room at the Hamilton County Democratic party's annual Estes Kefauver dinner on October 12. It's true; virtually everyone who approaches Ford for an autograph or a picture also gets an apparently heartfelt embrace. Even though he represents Memphis, 350 miles away on the other side of Tennessee, tonight Ford seems to know every Democrat in Chattanooga. And he wants them to know that he knows; during his speech, he interrupts himself dozens of times as he spots people in the crowd, so the speech goes something like, "Ladies and gentlemen, it's not enough ...

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