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With 54% of the precincts in, Paul Broun is at 54.5% and Jim Whitehead is at 45.5% Broun has really been able to pull in votes in Clarke County and Oconee County. [UPDATE:] We might just be calling this race for Paul Broun. Athens has stomped Jim Whitehead. Did they not even try there? With 68% in, we’re at 54.9% to 45.1%. A lot of crow will be eaten if Broun wins.

Sometimes your own party’s support isn’t enough — a fact of political life being borne out again in the competitive Republican-versus-Republican special election campaign for the vacant House seat in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District. Former state Sen. Jim Whitehead is the consensus front-runner to succeed the late seven-term Republican Rep. Charlie Norwood, as early voting begins next week in a runoff campaign that ends July 17. Whitehead’s 43.5 percent of the vote in the 10-candidate, single-ballot June 19 special election primary placed him way ahead of physician Paul Broun — the Republican whose 20.7 percent enabled him to narrowly edge...

Republican U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood of Georgia has died after a long battle with cancer, his office announced today. He was 65.

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This week in Washington Congressman Charlie Norwood, 9th District, Georgia April 8, 2005 The Miracle on the Southwest Border: Illegal Immigration Smashed A Direct Field Report on the Arizona-Mexico No-Man’s Land April 4, 2005: The Arizona border with Sonora outside NacoBy Congressman Charlie Norwood An on-going miracle is occurring this month in America’s Southwest, a miracle with a direct impact on our district. After decades of being told that it is impossible to stop illegal immigration on the Arizona border, it has been all but halted since April 1 through the very means we were told wouldn’t work –...

The author of a House bill giving 600,000 state and local police officers authority to enforce federal immigration law wants the Bush administration to abandon plans to grant guest-worker status to millions of illegal aliens now living and working in the United States.Rep. Charlie Norwood, Georgia Republican and chief sponsor of the Clear Law Enforcement for Alien Removal Act (CLEAR Act), joined with 21 other House Republicans this week urging President Bush not to grant what they called amnesty to illegal aliens, saying it would be "detrimental to our national and economic security.""There is absolutely no doubt this nation's immigration...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Saxby Chambliss, chairman of a Senate panel on immigration and border security, told business leaders Wednesday that immigration reform will be one of the next major battles in the war on terrorism and he intends to help lead it. In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Republican touted some of his proposals to close loopholes in certain foreign worker visas but said even larger changes could be sought as early as next year. ``The seriousness of the problem is such that if we continue to give a wink and a nod to the...