opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com - 12/3/2008
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Sarah Palin stirs up Republican crowds the South.
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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What Does the Chambliss Victory Really Mean?
QandO —
... . Having seen the passion she inspires in the GOP base, I tend to think that Palin is more important to the party’s future electoral success than she’s given credit for (a stance that apparently makes me "smitten" with her according to the NYT). ...
Sarah Palin and the Jacksonian Republicans — The Revolt of the Rustics
Pundits Blog —
Sarah Palin and the Jacksonian Republicans — The Revolt of the Rustics ( Bernie Quigley ) Tobin Harshaw, the Opinionator at The New York Times , can’t resist the woman in the red dress. He cites a report by Politico ’s Andy Barr that Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss credited Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with firing up his base. “I can’t overstate the impact she had down here,” Chambliss told Fox News. “When she walks in a room, folks just explode.” This could be a significant historic turning. There are now two schools of Republicans: The ...
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Palin Georgia-bound for Chambliss
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Alaka Gov. Sarah Palin Georgia-bound next week to help fellow Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss who's in a tough run-off with Democrat Jim Martin.
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What Chambliss' Win Has Wrought
weeklystandard.com 12/4/2008 — Saxby Chambliss' flattening of Jim Martin, 57-43, Tuesday night in Georgia ensured the Democrats cannot get to a filibuster-proof 60 votes in the Senate, but what else did it do?
It changed the cost-benefit analysis for Democratic senators on ...
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