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Solid Win for Chambliss

By Robert Stacy McCain on 12.2.08 @ 9:42PM

With 88% of precincts reporting by 9:40 p.m., Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss leads by more than 300,000 votes over his Democratic challenger Jim Martin in the runoff election. Still more than 100 precincts unreported in Fulton County, but the numbers so far look like a typical Republican victory -- solid margins in Cobb and Gwinnett counties, plus North Georgia and the fast-growing "outer ring" exurban counties. Based on partial reports, here are some of those exurban margins:

Carroll .........2.2-to-1
Cherokee .....4.5-to-1
Coweta ........2.8-to-1
Fayette .......2.3-to-1
Forsyth ........5.3-to-1
Hall .............3.3-to-1
Paulding ......3.2-to-1
Walton ........3.7-to-1

Will update with further results.

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notmypresident09| 12.2.08 @ 10:54PM

No Surprise here. Only super genius Quin Hillyer though Jim Martin would win based on suburban atlanta housewives. Anyone who lives here knew that Obama has no coat tails and that the urban Atlanta vote wouldn't get out of bed twice in the same month. The clincher for most voters was the picture of Jim Martin surrounded by ATL Rappers last night. Great work Jim and props to the rappers for sealing the deal for Saxby.

ruth| 12.2.08 @ 11:57PM

Yeah, Quin, and Sarah did her part, successfully!

Kevin Riley O'Keeffe| 12.3.08 @ 5:11AM

Now, if I could only think of any reason why I should care that another neocon plutocrat with nothing but contempt for everything authentic conservatism ought actually be about, has won a Senate race in Georgia, I guess this would be a good thing. This Republican would have voted for Jim Martin, in order to punish the GOP for continuing to nominate worthless poltroons like Saxby Chambliss.

And does anyone seriously think the 60-vote phantom means anything? Plenty of RINOs will be slavering to give Obama his filibuster-ending supra-majority. Even if Coleman pulls it out in Minnesota, those two broads from Maine, and Arlen Specter, will give Obama 61 votes (Hell, 62, counting Coleman).

If the Lord had intended us to vote Republican, he would have given us conservative candidates. Not some doofus like Saxby Chambliss, who's probably never mowed his own lawn in his life, and thinks going to war with as many countries as possible, while imposing a quasi-fascist police state at home (but never doing a damn thing to prevent the flow of cheap labor from Mexico; actually defending the national interests of the American people is the one aspect of fascism people of his ilk balk at, apparently), is the very height of "conservatism."

Curse, Damn, and to Hell with Saxby Chambliss, and all other neo-con traitors. They have destroyed the Republican Party, and America will likely soon follow.

Jill| 12.3.08 @ 6:19AM

YAY! I won't have Martin as my Senate Representative. Bob Barr endorsed Chambliss, and it is no wonder because Chambliss' American Conservative Union lifetime rating is 94.19. I shudder to think what Martin's would have been. He takes responsibility for PeachCare in Georgia on his election website. Finally, a liberal admits their crimes. PeachCare is "FREE" medical for all children under 18, which is a government program that rewards couples for having out of wedlock children. I don't know about you, but one reason I didn't birth twelve children, in my relatively poorer child-bearing years, is because of the medical cost of merely birthing them--even with private insurance that I EARNED by WORKING. As every conservative knows, state run medical care removes natural incentives, including employer incentives to offer excellent medical benefits for employees with children. Any way, that's typical liberalism, isn't it? Create a program to "fix" society and increase and extend social problems. Martin would surely have been at the national front for government control and destruction of private medical care in the US, if he had won. Martin ran on the worn-out platform of socialist "change." You know, "change." "Hope for the change that brings the hope for change."

Eric Dondero| 12.3.08 @ 8:23AM

Big loss for Jim Martin and the Democrats, but an even bigger loss for the Libertarian Party of Georgia. Their dumbass Senate candidate John Buckley refused to back Chambliss, as the LPGA did back in 1992, with the same situation, putting Republican Paul Coverdale over the top.

Well, Coverdale re-payed the favor to the LP by giving them access to his Senate office, hearing their concerns on major issues, and even appointing a couple Libertarians to his Senate staff.

Now, Chambliss doesn't owe a damned thing to the Libertarian Party. In fact, he'd be in the right to completely shun them.

But it should be strongly noted that Libertarian Republicans broke with the LP and enthusiastically backed Saxby. The Republican Liberty Caucus endorsed him in a press release Nov. 22. We at Libertarian Republican blog pushed his candidacy as much as we could.

Shows, some Libertarians have political smarts; others are just dumb as rocks.