After I posted the note, I remembered a conversation I had with someone from Tennessee. We were discussing the 2000 election, something we usually don't do in the group (we generally avoid modern topics as that's not good for the ambience, to say the least). Someone was curious about why Gore lost his home state. She told us that Tennessee is a notoriously fickle state and politically it had changed from the days of Gore's election to the Senate. My hunch is that the real numbers there are a tie as it was really close in 2000. I can't prove this, of course, I can only guess.