Posted on 08/06/2008 7:58:54 AM PDT by dmh191
Politicians grabbing Barack Obama’s coattails should take note: In the Georgia democratic Senatorial primary runoff held yesterday, Jim Martin defeated Vernon Jones by a 60% to 40%. Martin will now face the Republican senior Senator from Georgia, Saxby Chambliss, in November’s election. This doesn’t seem to bode well for Obama’s presidential quest. Jones’s campaign hoped to emulate Obama’s impressive primary victory in Georgia (he defeated Senator Hillary Clinton in Georgia, 66.4% to 31.1%), but now he’s failed to even make it to November’s ballot.
In fact, Jones distributed campaign paraphernalia consisting of a picture of himself and Obama, with the words “Yes We Can!” prominently scrawled underneath the photographs....
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Remember we don’t have to register by party here. It has been used very effectively both for and against Republicans and Dems.
The primary saw a huge crossover against Hillary. McCain winning was the Dem crossover. This may be another case, but frankly, Vernon Jones is one of the most crooked politicians here.
An Obama supporter can’t win the Democratic run-off? My, my.
The zenith of dumbocracy!
Obambi’s new slogan: Maybe We Can’t!
Georgia Democrats don’t care about Black people.
LOL.
And the DBM says GA is ‘do-able’ for Obama... what a load of sh•t!
Every fourth word out of Martin’s mouth is “change” however. Martin is a Democrat party lifer/hack. He’ll spend some of Chambliss’ money; we’ll be called hicks and racists; Chambliss gets re-elected by a wide margin.
There are still a bunch of folks in GA PO'd at Chambliss for his position on amnesty for illegals last year. Ditto McCain with the added bonus for his unique ability to alienate conservatives.
They'll both get my vote, but I can't say I'll be smiling about it.
You can put me in that column. I came very close to voting Dem and letting Saxby know. I hope he gets a clue and we get some other viable choice as some point. Like term limits.
Add me to that list as well.
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