[JohnnyZ]

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I'm happy to see that Barr won't be trying a quixotic run for senator -- all we'd need would be a Isakson-Barr primary runoff to lose that race!!!

I guess I'm more interested in the senate race implications than the House, since the 6th district is safe GOP territory. Right now for the senate it looks like we have:

• insurance commissioner John Oxendine
• Rep. Johnny Isakson, pro-abortion
• Rep. Mac Collins?
• Rep. Jack Kingston?

  Plus others. Rep. Nathan Deal and Ralph Reed say they won't run.

  The Democrats have:

• Rep. John Lewis?
• AG Thurbert Baker
• ex-Sen. Max Cleland

  Lewis and Baker are both black, but Baker has statewide support, and I think he is their best candidate. Sec State Cathy Cox says she won't run; same with Barnes and Lt Gov Taylor

[Phantom Lord]

If Barr would have just kept his butt still and stayed in his district instead of moving to a new district he would still be in the House.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Since Roll Call went to subscriber service, that really pi$$es me off. Only millionaires can afford it now. :-(

[LdSentinal]

The Democrats have:

• Rep. John Lewis?
  
• AG Thurbert Baker
  
• ex-Sen. Max Cleland

Also, former Secretary of State Lewis Massey and former Lt. Governor Pierre Howard are possible Democratic candidates, and both are white. Howard, however, likes the private sector a lot now.

When did Nathan Deal back out? Is it in this Roll Call article?

[Only1choice____Freedom]

B B B B But what about Cynthia McKenny????????

[AuH2ORepublican]

Jack Kingston is the man. If he runs, he could galvanize support from conservatives and go on to victory in November. Plus, his seat is now so ridiculously Republican (after Barnes's gerrymandering) that any conservative could run there and win.

Isakson must be stopped. We don't need another pro-abort RINO in the Senate. If he wins the nomination, Georgia Republicans should hang their heads in shame. How could Isakson be the frontrunner? Good Lord, we're talking about Georgia, not Maine!

As for Barr, he ran against Linder last time because he knew he would have gotten beat like a rented mule against Buddy Darden or Roger Kahn. In the old district, Kahn actually beat Barr in Cobb County, even though that portion of Cobb gave Bush 55% of the vote in 2000. The new district was carried by Bush over Gore by like 52%-48%, so Barr moved because he knew he'd lose if he kept running over 5% behind Bush (and it's a good thing he moved, too, since Dr. Phil Gingrey, a pro-life obstetrician, beat Kahn by getting the same 52% Bush got in 2000). But if Barr gets the GOP nomination in Isakson's district, he'd be a shoo-in in the general, since Bush got something like 75% in the gerrymandered district.

[DryFly]

After all, he is the "gooder" candidate!