dailykos.com - 10/31/2008
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Well, give credit where credit is due: Saxby Chambliss knows his base, knows his supporters, and knows how to fire them up. The New York Times ran a story this morning on black turnout in Georgia potentially endangering the senior Senator, as African-Americans are expected to vote in droves ...
35% of Georgians have already voted
americablog.com 11/1/2008 — In 2004, 3,301,875 Georgians voted for President in the general election. That number is going to be blown away in 2008. Not only is Georgia a battleground in the presidential race. There's the critical Senate race between Jim Martin and the wretched ...
Races To Watch Tuesday Night
talkleft.com 11/3/2008 — Besides the Presidential race, the races I will be most interested in are (1) Jim Martin's attempt to unseat the execrable Saxby Chambliss in the Georgia Senate race, where Chambliss has a narrow lead . Winning this one would be sweet. It is probably heading for a runoff as the winner must ...
Georgia Senate Race Headed For Runoff
fivethirtyeight.com 11/5/2008 — It appears that the late ballots did, after all, bring incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss under 50% in his race against Jim Martin, and so a special election will be held December 2, four weeks after the yesterday's election day. In special ...
Georgia Senate Race Not Settled —
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) "refused to concede that he'd been thrown into a U.S. Senate runoff -- but acknowledged he was now 'in full campaign mode' while final votes trickle in," the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
"Currently, Chambliss has 49.9 percent of the vote, according to ...
Remember the 2006 Runoffs? —
PoliPundit.com
Looks like Georgia might be heading to a runoff;
Saxby Chambliss (R) - 1,777,769 (49.8%)
Jim Martin (D) - 1,671,932 (46.8%)
Ever so close to 50%, but it might as well be a mile.
8:42 PM —
Vodkapundit
The Georgia senate seat is called for Saxby Chambliss. That ought to dash any hopes of a 60-seat margin for the Dems. Trust me on this one: they poured a ton of TV ad money into that race over the last few weeks.
That also tells me that Georgia is going [...]
Senate Update: Safe Sax? —
Hotline On Call Part Deux
FNC calls GA SEN for Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA).
With 23% of the GA vote in, Chambliss leads Jim Martin (D) 59%-38%, which is about 144K votes. But that margin is fairly meaningless, because no DeKalb or Cobb Co. precincts are in, and Martin is likely to net at least 200K votes from ...
Noises on the Ground —
RedState: Conservative News and Community
In Georgia: Saxby Chambliss may be able to get out without a
runoff. That's still not the odds on favorite scenario this
afternoon, but he looks to be in a better position. Even if he goes
into a runoff, if he is ahead by 7% or more, he is going to win the
runoff. If he is 5% of less going ...
Chambliss and Martin Could Be Headed to Runoff in Ga. —
News
Sen. Saxby Chambilss (R-Ga.) and Democrat Jim Martin could be headed to a runoff.
If no candidate receives a majority of the votes in Tuesday's Senate race, Georgia law requires a Dec. 2 runoff between the top two vote-getters.
The current Pollster.com trend line of the race has Chambliss ahead ...
GA-Sen: Let's Get Ready to Runoff!!! —
Swing State Project
PPP (10/31-11/2, likely voters, no trendlines):
Jim Martin (D) : 46
Saxby Chambliss (R-inc) : 48
Allen Buckley (L) : 4
(MoE: ±2.8%)
SurveyUSA for WMAZ (10/30-11/1, likely voters, 10/11-12 in parens):
Jim Martin (D) : 44 (43)
Saxby Chambliss (R-inc) : 48 (46)
Allen Buckley (L) : 5 ...
GA-Sen: Whose Fault Is It, Anyway? —
Daily Kos
Republicans aren't even waiting until after the election - or after the subsequent runoff - to start pointing fingers and assigning blame for the disintegration of Sen. Saxby Chambliss' campaign, as Georgia's very senior Senator was considered a virtual shoo-in for reelection just six short ...
GOP Bigot Eruption: Saxby Chambliss —
Oliver Willis
Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss, currently neck and neck for re-election says that blacks going to the poll will energize “our side” and that “the other folks” are voting.
This election could very well be GOP racism’s last stand.
CHAAAAAAARGE!
The Super-Close Senate Race You've Never Heard Of —
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo
In 2002, Republican Rep. Saxby Chambliss was running against Georgia Democratic Senator Max Cleland, an amputee Vietnam veteran, in one of the most bitter races of that election cycle. Wutg 9/11 still fresh, Chambliss ran an attack ad featuring a photo of Osama bin Laden accusing Cleland of ...
Two Polls Show Chambliss with Stable Lead in Ga. —
News
A pair of polls released Friday show Georgia's U.S. Senate race continuing to favor Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss by small but stable leads over Democratic challenger Jim Martin.
A Rasmussen poll conducted Thursday of 500 likely voters gives Chamblis a 5-point lead, 48 percent to 43 ...
Chambliss: "The Other Folks Are Voting" —
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Via John Cole , The Politico reports on Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss' candid assessment of what motivates Republicans in his state:
The Republican is outwardly confident, but there's urgency in his voice as he tours North Georgia, trying to boost turnout in his predominately white base: "The ...
Chambliss: "The Other Folks Are Voting" —
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Via John Cole , The Politico reports on Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss' candid assessment of what motivates Republicans in his state:
The Republican is outwardly confident, but there's urgency in his voice as he tours North Georgia, trying to boost turnout in his predominately white base: "The ...
GA-Sen: True battleground —
Daily Kos
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 10/28-30. Likely voters. MoE 4% ( 10/14-15 results) Chambliss (R) 47 (47) Martin (D) 46 (45) Buckley (L) 5 (5) Call it a gain for Martin if you want, but it's more like float in the MoE. If no candidate gets above 50 percent, this race is headed into a ...
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