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The top candidate can now win in the general election with 45 percent of the vote rather than 50 percent.

I keep picturing Tom Murphy's ancient, decrepit form running through the house chamber at the end of each session and I cringe.

I hope Chambliss can do something; I pray Chambliss can do something. Anything.

Gadzooks. I hope she DOES run as a write-in candidate. What fun! She is mean enough to do it just for spite, I think. Certainly the Dems abandoned her (says something about her that she was too far out in left field even for the national Democratic party), so maybe she'll be mad enough. If we toss her daddy in the 44th, maybe he'll help too.

On the other hand, this writer is generally full of it. To call Cleland "heroic" when he had an accident with a hand grenade nowhere near the action, is either stupid or a deliberate lie. (Cleland has, to my knowledge, never misrepresented his military service, but he keeps quiet and lets other people do it for him.) Certainly he has shown great courage in adapting to life with a severe physical handicap, but on the other hand he was largely incapacitated by sleep apnea for years (sleeping through meetings etc.), is not particularly bright, and votes lockstep liberal with the national Democratic party. Not all in all a good senator for Georgia. Persistence in the face of adversity, alone, does not make up for all his other shortcomings.