obsidianwings.blogs.com - 12/3/2008
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by publius
As expected, Chambliss held on in Georgia. I suppose there will be some grumbling that Obama could have done more for Martin, but I think Obama made the right call by staying out of it.
Let's face it -- it was pretty much hopeless from the moment in went to the runoff. There ...
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?
thenextright.com - 12/2/2008
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thenextright.com —
The latest Public Policy Polling (D) poll out
of Georgia has Saxby Chambliss up by 7 points
-- 53-46 (that's not a lot of undecideds). And reading FiveThirtyEight , it's not hard to see why: Whatever turns out to be the case, at the close of ...
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If Saxby Wins by 5+ Turnout Mattered on 11/4
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12/3: The GOP Comeback Begins?
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... suggests whatever changes occurred to the map [since] November, 2004 have not really shifted voter allegiances in any firm ideological sense yet. While the Democrats as a whole have changed the conversation somewhat, McCain nationally still got 46% of the vote, and that's only 4 points from a majority, or 1 in 25 Americans. And Georgia is still Georgia." Obsidian Wings ' publius thinks Obama was wise not to campaign for Martin: "I suppose there will be some grumbling that Obama could have done more for Martin, but I think Obama made the right call by staying out of it. Let's ...
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