voices.washingtonpost.com - 12/3/2008
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Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss and Senate Republicans were the big winners in yesterday's runoff. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) Senate Democrats' dreams of a 60-seat filibuster proof majority were dashed down in Georgia yesterday as Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R) won a...
usnews.com - 12/4/2008
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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 ...
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Chambliss’s Win in Georgia Shows Obama’s Diminishing ...
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?
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A Good Day for Al
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... Jim Martin lost Tuesday night in Georgia, dashing the Democrats' hopes of getting to 60 seats in the Senate. But the Dems' hopes of getting to 59 were looking a little better Wednesday on the strength of some good news for Al Franken, who is in a recount battle in Minnesota with incumbent Republican Norm Coleman. Franken, who Jonathan ...
Saxby Chambliss Victory A Model For The GOP?
The Moderate Voice —
... if he’d say something stupid in 1998) and constantly fixing that miserable computer system in the old campaign office, I am sorely disappointed in how you’ve conducted yourself in the past few years. I am even more sorely disappointed that your campaign was a disaster of monumental incompetence and a high level of being disconnected and out of touch with the grassroots on whom you depend for votes and volunteers. Emphasis his. Of course, it could be worse for Erick. Among the losers Chris Cillizza identifies in last night’s runoff, the Democratic congressman in ...
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First Read 12/3/2008
GEORGIA: Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R) won reelection after defeating Jim Martin (D) in a run-off last night, 57%-43% (with 97% of precincts reporting). Turnout was just slightly more than half of what it was during the general election a month ago. ...
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