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politico.com - 12/3/2008

Chambliss: Palin ‘allowed us to peak’

— politico.com — Fresh off his runoff victory Tuesday night Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss credited Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for firing up his base. (more) Chambliss: Palin ‘allowed us to peak’

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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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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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David Gergen
Suburban Guerrilla — Still a putz.

MORNING READ
News — MORNING READ The reelection of Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) means different things to different bloggers. Conservatives see it as the first step in a Republican rebirth, while liberals write that it doesn't change the fact that Republicans will need to cooperate. The decision by Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) not to seek another term gives former Gov. Jeb Bush (R) a chance to rehabilitate his family's name, according to bloggers on both sides. The Republican victory in Georgia shows that President-elect Barack Obama's coattails aren't that long and that the GOP can win in 2010 and 2012, writes Townhall's Hugh Hewitt . Tuesday's ...

What Does the Chambliss Victory Really Mean?
QandO — After narrowly missing an outright electoral victory on Nov. 4th (garnering only 49.8%), Chambliss managed to win a runoff by a wide margin on Tuesday. Predictably, pundits around the web are now trying to decipher just what that win means. Some miss the mark entirely: Last time I checked, 41% was a failing grade. Not so in the Senate it would appear. No, now that Chambliss has won, apparently having just 41 votes in the Senate is REALLY great news for Republicans and bad news for Democrats, especially President-elect ...

GA-Sen: The GOP is back, baby! (Or something)
Daily Kos — ... Of course, while a Martin victory would've been the upset of the decade, Chambliss hanging on is now a stunning repudiation of Obama, or other such silliness. Yet it's about as significant as Mary Landrieu hanging on in a Louisiana runoff in 2002 while Republicans engaged in "Operation Icing on the Cake" (after knocking off Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and taking over the Senate). Well, the GOP didn't get their icing on the cake, but 2004 was a good enough consolation prize. ...

Hullabaloo — 41% Solution by digby Todd Beaton catches the latest so-called evidence for center-rightism ---Chambliss' win: On AC360 earlier David Gergen declared: I think this actually puts a lot more pressure on Barack Obama to govern much more from the center and not from the left. He is going to need Republicans now, he is going to need a bipartisan approach... Right, a 41 vote minority should by all means have Barack Obama shaking in his boots. I wonder if Gergen said something similar about Republicans on ...

Suddenly Saxby wins and the Village rejoices
Crooks and Liars — ... the magic number of 60, but if Franken prevails that will give the the Democratic Party 59. And this: In election forecast model developed by a political scientist 99 days before the 2008 elections and before the recent Wall Street crisis predicts significant Democratic gains in the 2008 congressional elections--including 11 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 3 seats in the U.S. Senate...read on So where does David Gergen get off on spreading this nonsense (via Todd Beeton)? On AC360 ...