Gallup Culled Town Hall Participants from Uneven Voter Pool

The 100 participants in tonight’s Town Hall debate at Belmont University are on site and have been sequestered. The Gallup polling organization went to great lengths to find a diverse group of “uncommitted voters” in a very red state.

A panel of national experts predict health care will come up in tonight’s Town Hall debate at Belmont University because Americans want to talk about it.

More Tennesseans are depending on the state’s Medicaid program because of increasing unemployment and a weakening economy.

Senators John McCain and Barack Obama debate tonight at Belmont University. Some 3-thousand members of the media are expected to cover the debate, which has created a regular carnival of causes around the city.

Governor Phil Bredesen says Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama should brush the mud off instead of slinging it back. Bredesen made his comments yesterday at a forum on civil discourse, which he co-hosted with former Tennessee Senator Howard Baker.

The man credited with modernizing Nashville’s Meharry Medical College has died.

Middle Tennessee’s Consumer Confidence Index has dropped to just one. That’s a twenty-nine point drop from May, and more than 300 points below its level nearly two years ago.

Tennessee Senator Bob Corker says he wants to see major health care reform in the next two years, and he wants to move away from an employer-based insurance system. That’s what he told college students at the Shout America leadership conference today in Nashville.

Third party candidates for president will hold their own debate tonight at Vanderbilt University.

About 100 college leaders have gathered in Nashville this week to talk about health care reform at the behest of one of the area’s best-known health care executives.