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CNN projects Saxby Chambliss will win Georgia Senate runoff

 

Published 12/3/2008 by rsinderbrand at CNN Political Ticker

(CNN) — CNN projects that Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia will win the Senate runoff, thereby killing Democratic hopes of gaining enough seats to halt filibusters. Chambliss, who failed to win a majority of the vote in November's three-person race, was projected to win more than 50 percent of the vote in Tuesday's rematch [...] (link)

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