Home State Unfazed by Talk of Thompson White House Bid

So far, Tennesseeans are mostly yawning over the prospects of native son Fred Thompson's yet-to-be-officially-declared candidacy for president, says DePauw University's Ken Bode. Perhaps it's because they've been down this road many times before. "There is something in the water of this long, horizontal, two-time-zone state that causes its politicians to think they should be president, beginning, probably, with Andrew Jackson, who actually held the job," Bode says.