In Tracy City, Tennessee, incumbent Mayor Barbara Brock was defeated in her re-election bid by challenger Carl Geary, even though Geary had died a month before the vote! Local businessman Chris Rogers explained his vote for Geary by saying that he knew about his death, "...but wanted someone other than her.
OK, so this story is pretty nutty, but not a whole lot more shocking than many other recent election stories around the country, starting with the most significant when democrats lost Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. All of them point to just how tough 2010 is destined to be for incumbents hoping to retain their jobs. So incumbents take note: if Mayor Brock can be defeated by a dead guy, imagine the kind of fight you'll likely face by someone with a pulse!
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