huffingtonpost.com - 11/12/2008
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Democratic officials confirm that Barack Obama is sending aides to help with the runoff senatorial campaign in Georgia, putting his post-election coattails to an immediate test.
Organizers who worked on behalf of the Illinois Democrat are heading to the Peach State to offer similar ...
politicalwire.com - 11/11/2008
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politicalwire.com —
"I'd never seen anything like that ad. Putting
pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden next...
to the picture of a man who left three limbs on the battlefield -- it's worse than disgraceful. It's reprehensible." -- Sen. John McCain, quoted by CNN ...
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huffingtonpost.com - 11/11/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
Never one to let an opportunity to misled
the people of Georgia, Saxby Chambliss has requested that...
he actually be excused from the December 2nd runoff against Jim Martin and just be declared the winner. It is rumored that in private statements, ...
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James Boyce: Saxby Chambliss Seeks Deferment From Runoff ...
ap.google.com - 11/11/2008
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ap.google.com —
10 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) A Republican congressman
from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama...
will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship. "It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing ...
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The Associated Press: Georgia congressman warns of Obama ...
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Bum knee
The Reaction —
... reported the other day, it looks like Republican "superstars" Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, and Rudy Giuliani will be campaigning for Chambliss ahead of the run-off vote. HuffPo's Sam Stein is reporting that Obama is "sending aides" to Georgia to work for Martin, "one of the earliest tests of the influence he can wield on the political landscape." ...
Bum Knee; or, Why the Time is Now to Rid the Senate of Saxby Chambliss
The Democratic Daily —
... reported the other day, it looks like Republican “superstars” Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, and Rudy Giuliani will be campaigning for Chambliss ahead of the run-off vote. HuffPo’s Sam Stein is reporting that Obama is “sending aides” to Georgia to work for Martin, “one of the earliest tests of the influence he can wield on the political landscape.” ...
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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 ...
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What Does the Chambliss Victory Really Mean?
qando.net 12/4/2008 — A fter 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 ...
Down the ballot: McCain headed to GA —
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Help wanted at the Obama White House —
CNN Political Ticker 11/12/2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) – An epidemic of layoffs is plaguing the country, but the Help Wanted sign is out in Washington: President-elect Obama's new administration needs to fill 7,996 positions according to the Plum Book, the quadrennial list of jobs ...
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