Dana Tepper votes as her daughter Sally, 12, watches at Eakin Elementary School today in Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee has 55 delegates up for grabs in the Republican presidential primary, third most among the 10 Super Tuesday states. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)By TRAVIS LOLLER
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Nearly half of those voting in Tennessee’s Republican presidential primary on Tuesday said the economy was their top concern, with another third citing the deficit and more than nine in 10 saying gas prices were a factor in how they voted.
David Morgan, a 55-year-old salesman voting in Nashville listed his top concerns as “the economy and jobs and now the gas prices.”
“The whole economy is down,” he said. “Myself, I don’t make as much as I used to.”
Morgan said he voted for Mitt Romney because “I feel like he is the one that can beat Obama.”