Posted on 12/02/2008 3:49:00 PM PST by RobFromGa
The polls close in ten minutes. Hopefully Georgia has held the line today. Poll traffic was reported as steady here Northeast Atlanta today...
good to see you too, not much time for Freeping lately...
Dekalb County, one of the largest and a big part of "Darkest Atlanta."
I was thinking more about the infrastructure.
Thank you so much.
Early Voting Statistics- General Election Runoff
as of 12/2/08
Number of ballots cast : 533,196
Number of ballots voted in person: 390,119
Number of mail-in ballots returned:143,077
Turn out Demographics:
Black Female
72,400
Black Male
43,872
White Female
208,263
White Male
192,402
Asia-PI Female
1,219
Asia-PI Male
902
Hisp-Lt Female
1,029
Hisp-Lt Male
864
Native AM Female
24
Native AM Male
22
Other
12,199
Total
533,196
Top 5 Counties in turn out:
Where is Columbia County. I want to live there.
Chambliss (R) - 61.1% (808,654)
Martin (D) - 38.9% (513,648)
295,000 lead
The people who voted for Obama are not going to be as motivated to go out and do it for an older white guy. There will be GOTV but nothing like for Obama. Hell, Barry wasn’t willing to put his ass on the line for this seat.
That should tell you something
Fulton, Dekalb and Clayton aren’t even close to being done...and they’re all heavily Dem.How heavily Dem were they on November?
As I recall on Nov 4 Chambliss started out in a stronger position and his percentage dropped as the night went on. At one point Fox declared him the winner though I don’t know if they were taking into account the fact that he had to get over 50%. Of course he did get more votes but did not “win.” In any case I don’t think his numbers were looking as good as this 28 days ago. Unless the Dems can produce a huge turnaround at this late stage then Chambliss should win it. I hope some network calls it soon.
Jeff: I stole your letter and will email it to both of my Bama senators.
Alcoholics Anonymous???
LOL!
Chambliss (R) - 60.5% (760,184)
Martin (D) - 39.5% (496,094)
264,000 lead
There must be alot of Republican voter fraud, because we all know Democrats never truly lose any election. [/sarc]
Atlanta (the city = very, very strongly black/liberal/democrat/extremists) is split between counties: Dekalb and (south) Fulton county. The city of Atlanta is the typical urban, corrupt, democrat-led mess we are all familiar with, and is no better than any urban-democratc-led city. Both Fulton County and Dekalb county trend the same way.
The north half of Fulton county is a more typical, more recently developed suburban and many hundreds of very nice neighborhoods. North Fulton will probably go 75-80 for Chambliss, but won't cover the greater urban population of south Fulton. Dekalb is lost, probably forever.
The six counties around Atlanta will almost certainly go republican. The total (Atlanta + the suburban counties) drives most of GA’s population, because the other cities in GA are important, but simply don't have enough people to drive politics very far on a statewide basis.
But in the GA legislature, the other cities and the rural counties carry much more influence.
This race?
I sure hope so.
BTW I love your tag line!
No prob my friend. You are welcome to it. Please spread it around. Email it to all you know and let them know they have my permission to use it as a template.
“For the record, Early County hasn’t reported yet. :)”
Neither has Rabun:-) The precinct managers must be at the high school basketball game.
Hi FP,
hope you are well. I’m very glad that Chambliss is #41 in the Senate.
Rob
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