Chambliss running away in GA

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December 1, 5:12 PM

by Igor Derysh, Congress Examiner

 

Photo courtesy of the Washington Post

The biggest nail in the coffin for Martin is the fact that more than a third of all likely voters have already cast their ballots during the early voting period in Georgia and Talking Points Memo reports that nearly 60% of the early voters have swung for Chambliss.

The Georgia runoff election was spawned as Saxby Chambliss did not attain the needed 50%+1 vote that Georgia requires. The only reason that Chambliss did not do better, and why Martin got the 46% of the vote that he did, was the amount of African-Americans that came out to support Barack Obama.

African-Americans amounted to 28% of the vote, 93% of whom voted for the Democrat.

This time around, not only will Barack Obama's name not be on the ballot, but he did not even make the trip down to Georgia to campaign for Martin.

A loss in the Georgia runoff along with what seems to be an inevitable victory by Norm Coleman in the Minnesota Senate recount will put the Democrats two seats short of a filibuster proof majority that they will hope to attain in the 2010 midterm elections.

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