Blackburn wins in Tenn. Senate race: beats Tayolor Swift's candidate

U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) beat the daylights out of Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen in a closely watched Senate race Tuesday, in spite of yet another star entertainer having no effect on the outcome as people still vote their own mind. The GOP now has a generous majority while losing control of the House.

This race made headlines in the entertainment world last month after incredibly famous and talented pretty little Miss Taylor Swift went out to motivate young Tennessee voters to tip the results in favor of the Democrats because famous entertainers are only allowed to vote for that party or be blackballed from the industry because Democrats are just so gosh darn tolerant.

So the "Taylor Swift effect" was as effective for the Democrats as a bandaid is to stem the bleeding of a sucking chest wound.

As I write this, fully 99 percent of the precincts have reported. Blackburn captured 55 percent of the vote while Bredesen got merely 43 percent.

Blackburn had trailed Bredesen in the polls throughout the entire summer, but slowly closed the gap and eventually took the lead last month after aligning herself with President Trump. She will replace Bob Corker and become the first female U.S. senator from the great state of Tennessee.

This race received a lot of outside money as Democrats thought there would be a path to retaking the Senate majority, which they did not. Had Bredesen won, he would have been the first Democrat elected to the senate from his state since the inventor of the internet and expert on global warming, Al Gore, won in 1990.

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