In the 1952 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Estes Kefauver of Tennessee won all but three state primaries. He received 3.1 million votes, Democratic presidential nominee, Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson, received only 78,000 votes and won the nomination at the convention.

The state's highest court paid a visit to Knoxville today to consider two legally novel issues in two separate cases: What is the relational benchmark for holding someone criminally responsible for a child's welfare, and is the state's so-called "crack tax" unconstitutional? The state Supreme Court's five justices took the bench in Knoxville to hear arguments in two East Tennessee cases that have statewide implications.

Saying he would support Clinton and "hope she ultimately prevails," Koch wasn't worried that Democratic infighting could hurt the party's chances in the fall. It was Obama's candidacy, he repeated, that would be the death knell. "I believe that when the voting is over that the vast majority, not all, on both sides, will vote for the [Democratic] candidate," said Koch. "But that applies only to the Democrats who have been participating. I believe that the vast majority of voters will look at all of these allegations, which nobody disputes, as related to Wright and his comments, and that they will have an enormous impact on the vote and on those Independents and others who will make a decision in the general election. I just think he is a loser because of that."

"What happened? A few weeks ago Obama had to win Indiana to put Hillary away. She won, but now she's toast?"