[Leroy S. Mort]

Chamblis had a comfortable lead when I went to bed. Now, the numbers show he's dropped below 50%, which would trigger a run-off election. Looks like the big metro Atlanta counties held back (or manufactured) enough returns to erase Saxby's big lead of last night.

If the percentages hold, you can bet the Dems will pour beaucoup bucks into GA over the next 30 days to make sure lyin' Jim Martin ("Saxby will add a 23% sales tax to everything you buy")takes this seat.

Bummer.

[Gay State Conservative]

So in GA a candidate for the Senate not only must get the most votes but must get at least 50.0000001% of the vote? What kind of Barbara Streisand is that?????

[MSF BU]

The block vote will not turn out for Martin. This will be the same thing that happened in 1992 against Wyche Fowler.

[Floyd]

98% reporting ...

Saxby Chambliss - R Incumbent 1,771,237 51%
Jim Martin - D 1,631,025 46%
Allen Buckley - L 121,024 3%

[Rhetorical pi2]

Fill us in on this. I once lived in Atlanta, but out of touch with politics there now.

(Actually, I HAVE watched the total destruction of the newspaper there.)

So who is this Buckley person? Any help from there for the right price?

Republican need to turn this into a national effort, soliciting help from everywhere. There are still people out here who would go to Atlanta for a few days to help make this happen.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Damn.

Are they so stupid inside the perimeter that they believe the sales tax lie?

I guess that is why I am in North GA now.

[conservative_guyz]

This is glorious! I was so ticked last night that Chamblis wasn’t heading to a runoff. I cast my vote for the lib. to uphold a promise I made to Saxby back when he stated: “let me educate you on immigration”... I was considering going back on my promise, but then Saxby ignored the voices of constituants state-wide when he signed on to Bush’s bail out bill.

Saxby is one of the biggest Bush kool-aid lackey’s in the senate.

I hope that this does go to run-off. He needs to receive this message loud and clear.

Oh, and for all of you other conservatives across the country railing against GA for not voting Saxby back in, get off your high horses. ‘NIMBY’ is what Saxby is facing right now. He can take his blind Bush worship with him somewhere else, but NOT IN MY BACK YARD.

Looks like 60 DEM seats is out of reach anyway, so I might just get some popcorn instead of voting for Saxby Dec 2nd. The GOP fear machine isn’t enough to persuade me. Sometimes people just need to find something else to do with their lives outside of politics.

[Non-Sequitur]

Right now Chambliss is showing 50.2% so it may be academic. Even so, without the draw of the presidential election the runoff shouldn’t attract a fraction of the voters that turned out yesterday. Chambliss should win that handily.

[TBP]

So who will the Buckley supporters vote for in the runoff?