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Video: “It All Comes Down to Georgia”
Hot Air » Top Picks — Video: “It All Comes Down to Georgia” posted at 7:00 pm on November 10, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Well, Georgia, Minnesota, and Alaska, as it turns out, but only the Peach State has to do another election to straighten out its Senate seat. Saxby Chambliss won a plurality last Tuesday, but Georgia state law requires 50% plus one vote to avoid a runoff between the top two finishers. The NRSC has all its attention on Chambliss, and has a new ad reminding voters of the stakes: Obviously, both parties will focus all of their efforts here because neither has anything better to do at the moment, but the GOP ...

McCain To Campaign For Saxby Chambliss; Will He Have Company?
Firedoglake — Quick quiz. Who said this in 2002? "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 ...

National G.O.P. Looks to Georgia
The Caucus — The National Republican Senatorial Committee isn’t leaving anything to chance in Georgia, where one of the three outstanding Senate races is heading toward a run-off on Dec. 2. Today, for example, the group began running a new ad attacking Jim Martin, the Democratic challenger, on his tax record in the Georgia assembly. Senator Saxby Chambliss received a plurality of votes on Nov. 4 ...

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Is Georgia in Play?
qando.net 10/27/2008 — A nd this time, I don’t mean the Republic of Georgia. The Obama campaign certainly seems to think so (and polls show the race here tightening considerably). David Knowles reports: Early voting is proving a huge asset to Obama. It remains to be ...
Could Georgia Flip to the Democrats?
politicalwire.com 10/23/2008 — According to a new Democracy Corps poll in Georgia, Sen. John McCain leads Sen. Barack Obama by just two points, 46% to 44%. In the U.S. Senate race, Sen. Saxby Chambliss holds a four point edge over challenger Jim Martin (D), 48% to 44%. "The ...
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reddingnewsreview.com 10/13/2008 — Oct. 13, 2008, 4:40 a.m. - Voting rights groups last week filed a suit against the Georgia Secretary of State charging that the voting rights of a Cherokee County citizen had been violated. This suit came one day after concerns were lodged by the U.S. ...
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reason.com 11/25/2008 — Wendy Whitaker, 29, has been on Georgia's sex offender list for more than 12 years.  Her crime?  She performed oral sex on a high school classmate just after turning 17.  The boy was just shy of his 16th birthday.  Both were ...
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