ROGER SIMON IN REAL CLEAR POLITICS: Nashville’s Next Mayor May Be a Black Conservative Woman. “After John Briley served as interim mayor, a full-term election is now in  progress.  And that election is being shaken up by Carol Swain, a woman who is — of all things in traditionally Democratic Nashville, a blue stronghold in a red state — a no-holds-barred black, Christian Republican conservative. Swain’s vitae resembles neurosurgeon/cabinet member Ben Carson’s, but is in some ways more extraordinary.”

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