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online.wsj.com - 12/4/2008
A Win for Civility
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JAMES TARANTO Democrats will fall short of a 60-seat Senate supermajority in the 111th Congress. Unofficial results , with 97% of precincts reporting, show Sen. Saxby Chambliss with a wide lead over challenger Jim Martin, 57.4% to 42.6%, in Georgia's runoff election. Chambliss's victory assures ...
usnews.com - 12/4/2008
Chambliss’s Win in Georgia Shows Obama’s Diminishing Coattails - Michael Barone (usnews.com)
— usnews.com — Saxby Chambliss has won the Georgia runoff by a 57.4 percent-to-42.6 percent margin with 97 percent of... precincts reporting. That's a margin of 14.8 percentage points, far greater than the 49.8 percent-to-46.8 percent margin that Chambliss led by in ... (more) Chambliss’s Win in Georgia Shows Obama’s Diminishing ...

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Saxby Shows Republicans The Way Forward?
fivethirtyeight.com - 12/3/2008
Saxby Shows Republicans The Way Forward?
— fivethirtyeight.com — I tend to think that we should not be too dismissive of Saxby Chambliss's win in Georgia... tonight. Although the outcome was expected, and although runoffs and special elections sometimes behave in idiosyncratic ways, moving from a 3-point margin of ... (more) Saxby Shows Republicans The Way Forward?

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firedoglake.com - 12/3/2008
Erick Erickson Dances In End Zone After Late Field Goal By Saxby Chambliss Makes Final Score 48-3.
— firedoglake.com — Pathetic, thy name is Red State. Both Sarah Palin and Barack Obama campaigned in Georgia. Palin flew... all over the state rallying Republicans. Obama flew under the radar heavily targeting black voters, demanding support for Martin, and running ... (more) Erick Erickson Dances In End Zone After Late Field Goal ...

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JAMES TARANTO: Georgia Voters Bury a McCarthyite Smear. “Chambliss’s victory assures the GOP of a…
Instapundit — ... JAMES TARANTO: Georgia Voters Bury a McCarthyite Smear. “Chambliss’s victory assures the GOP of at least 41 Senate seats. It also lays to rest one of the nastiest McCarthyite smears of recent times: the repeated assertion by Democrats and the media that former senator Max Cleland’s patriotism is in question.” ...

Dissecting Leftism — ... A good comment from Taranto: "Barack Obama has dropped yet another left-wing campaign promise, the Houston Chronicle reports: "Obama has shelved a proposal to slap the oil and gas companies with a new windfall profits tax because oil prices have dropped so much in recent months, the transition team confirmed today. "President-elect Obama announced the policy during the campaign because oil prices were above $80 per barrel," a transition aide said. "They are currently below that now and expected to stay below that." Funny how politicians always vilify "Big Oil" when prices are ...

What Chambliss' Win Has Wrought
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Finally, James Taranto cheers a win for decency in politics, as Chambliss' win will put to rest the idea that he won in 2002 by attacking Max Cleland's patriotism: ...

WSJ’S James Taranto: Saxby Chambliss’ Victory Over Martin Proves He Didn’t Viciously Smear Max Cleland
Firedoglake — ... In my gleeful mocking of Erick Erickson's masterpiece of stupid on the Chambliss-Martin runoff yesterday, I missed this even more absurd take from WSJ wingnut James Taranto. ...

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