Marsha Blackburn Wins Tennessee Governor Race

Tennessee voters made Marsha Blackburn their next governor Tuesday, and Democrat Jerri Green conceded, which is more graceful than most folks in Washington manage. Independent David Hatley took close to 10 percent. Blackburn succeeds term-limited Governor Bill Lee, and once she's in office she gets to appoint the interim replacement for her Senate seat, which is a lot like a rancher picking the fella who keeps the cattle fed while he's off at the sale barn. The Washington Examiner says she planned to stay in the Senate until she took the governor's job so she could name her own successor, and that the legality of that is up for debate. Back home a question like that gets settled over coffee at the feed store. In Washington it'll take a committee, a press release, and a lawyer on retainer. Congratulations to the Volunteer State.