realclearpolitics.com - 11/26/2008
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Race Summary Sen. Saxby Chambliss, running for a second term, was unable to win 50% of the vote Nov. 4, forcing a runoff with Democratic challenger Jim Martin. Chambliss narrowly missed winning outright, taking 49.8% of the vote to Martin's 46.8%. For general election polling, click here . ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 12/3/2008
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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 ...
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Saxby Shows Republicans The Way Forward?
thenextright.com - 12/2/2008
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thenextright.com —
The latest Public Policy Polling (D) poll out
of Georgia has Saxby Chambliss up by 7 points
-- 53-46 (that's not a lot of undecideds). And reading FiveThirtyEight , it's not hard to see why: Whatever turns out to be the case, at the close of ...
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If Saxby Wins by 5+ Turnout Mattered on 11/4
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Georgia Senate race's old GOP playbook
The Swamp —
... Despite running ads that seem out of synch with the times, Chambliss is likely to win the run-off Tuesday. The Real Clear Politics average has him up by 4.8 percentage points and it's hard to believe the black-voter turnout in Georgia, which would help Martin, will be as energized as it was Election Day when Presidential-Elect Barack Obama was on the ticket. ...
The Last Man Standing
The American Spectator —
... That gives Chambliss a distinct advantage heading into the
lower-turnout runoff election, one that has been reflected in
the polls. Chambliss finished ahead of Martin in November
with a Libertarian on the ballot and Obama bringing record
numbers of new black voters to the polls. Will he not do so again
without them? White men account for 36 percent of the
half-million early votes already cast, up from 27 percent on
Election Day. ...
Georgia Runoff an Early Test for Barack Obama
Politics Daily —
... Chambliss narrowly missed garnering the fifty percent needed to win election outright on Election Day last month, falling just two tenths of one percent short of the mark. The Real Clear Politics polling average shows Chambliss with a five point lead over Martin, who received 47 percent of the vote on Election Day. ...
GA Sen: Chambliss +4
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
... poll released late yesterday shows Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R) with a 4-point lead over challenger Jim Martin (D) (Nov. 30, 744 LV, MoE +/- 3.5%). Chambliss 50 Martin 46 Und 4 Chambliss holds a 5.3-point lead in the RCP Senate Average ...
Georgia run-off: Chambliss up big early
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... . He’s expected to win but not by much more than five , so expect a long, agonizing evening of watching the blue counties roll in and slowly wash away the margin. If Martin pulls the upset, that’s 59 seats, which would mean ...
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obsidianwings.blogs.com 12/3/2008 — by publius
As expected, Chambliss held on in Georgia. I suppose there will be some grumbling that Obama could have done more for Martin, but I think Obama made the right call by staying out of it.
Let's face it -- it was pretty much hopeless ...
Senate runoff fast and furious
ajc.com 11/11/2008 — Georgia’s nationally watched U.S. Senate runoff bolted out of the starting gate Monday, with Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss telling state GOP leaders that the 2010 election begins with his Dec. 2 battle against Democrat Jim Martin.“I ...
Obama a no-show in Georgia Senate race
swamppolitics.com 11/30/2008 —
Tribune Correspondent James Oliphant spent last week in Georgia, covering the U.S. Senate runoff between Republican Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin. The race could determine the success of the Democratic legislative agenda. Here is ...
Obama to help Martin in Ga. Senate race?
ajc.com 11/11/2008 — One of the big question marks in Georgia’s ongoing U.S. Senate campaign is how much President-elect Barack Obama will get involved. Democrat Jim Martin desperately wants Obama to come here to boost Martin’s campaign against Republican incumbent U.S. ...
Clinton to give Martin a hand
ajc.com 11/18/2008 — Jim Martin could only watch last week as top national Republicans descended on Georgia to campaign for his opponent in the Dec. 2 U.S. Senate runoff. Martin is getting some big-name assistance of his own this week. Former President Bill Clinton will ...
Georgia's U.S. Senate race may be headed for runoff
ajc.com 11/6/2008 — Well-polished political celebs and teams of scraggly ground troops from both major parties could invade Georgia over the next few weeks if the U.S. Senate race between Republican Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin ends up in a full-blown runoff. ...
GA-Sen: Another photo finish in the works?
dailykos.com 11/13/2008 — Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 11/10-12. Likely voters. MoE 4% (No special election trendlines) Chambliss (R) 49 Martin (D) 46 We trail narrowly, but it's winnable. We had R2K poll the general election results, and they match up pretty well, ...
GA-Sen: Race still tight; will Obama come?
dailykos.com 11/26/2008 — Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 11/23-25. Likely voters. MoE 4% (11/17-19 numbers). Chambliss (R) 52 (51) Martin (D) 46 (45) These numbers are in contrast to an InsiderAdvantage poll that showed a three-point race, and a Democratic poll which had ...
Ludicrous
fivethirtyeight.com 12/2/2008 — Bright and early on a chilly morning in Augusta, a crowd of just under 3,000 lined up to see Sarah Palin stump for Saxby Chambliss, her first stump appearance since the presidential race ended nearly four weeks ago. Palin implored the crowd to vote ...
Unveiled: The sad tale of Marty Eisenstadt
latimesblogs.latimes.com 11/14/2008 — Once upon a time there was a boy named Martin. He was a sickly child growing up in rural Austria in a family so poor that it couldn't afford its own last name.
So, Martin's father, Vince, and his mother, coincidentally named Vince, took the name ...
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