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...hopeful postscript to the GOP's humiliating losses in the Nov. 4 elections, incumbent Saxby Chambliss beat Jim Martin in a runoff vote, dashing the Democrats' hopes for a filibuster-proof Senate. With turnout low despite high-profile stumping by Sarah Palin, John McCain, Bill Clinton and Al Gore--as well as Atlanta rappers Ludacris and T.I.--Chambliss won some 57% of the vote...
...Georgia, it's almost as if the election hasn't ended. National political heavyweights like Bill Clinton, John McCain, Sarah Palin and Al Gore have stormed through the state to remind its citizens that history is still at stake. On Tuesday, Georgia goes to the polls to decide a seat that could inch Democrats closer to a 60-seat, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. The prospect of such a legislative advantage has the Republican incumbent in this red-leaning state billing himself as as the final "firewall" against the agenda of Barack Obama...
...Martin, my opponent, is committed to doing everything that the President-elect wants him to do," Chambliss said on Fox News Sunday. "And I'm simply not going to do that... If we give [Obama] a blank check... it will not be in the best interests of the country." Palin made election-eve appearances to support him, echoing his position that winning the state would not only stymie the Democratic majority in the Senate, but would help rebuild a battered G.O.P. "It takes rebuilding," she told an audience of 3,000 in Augusta. "And I say, let that begin here...
...concerned by the Obama absence. However, its concern for black voter turnout is apparent. Martin was scheduled to appear in Atlanta Monday with the hip-hop star Ludacris, the goal being to get African-American voters back to the polls. Chambliss, for his part, was scheduled to appear with Palin in four events on Monday, focusing on encouraging voters in Republican strongholds to come to the polls one last time. The Chambliss line about being the firewall against an Obama agenda is resonating with voters. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 52% of Georgia voters say they would be less...
...unusually progressive for a statewide candidate in Georgia. Chambliss narrowly missed an outright majority in November, pulling in 49.8% to Martin's 46.8%, and black Democrats who turned out in record numbers to support Obama didn't vote early for Martin in similar numbers. John McCain and Sarah Palin both returned to Georgia to campaign for Chambliss after winning the state; Obama just taped a radio ad for Martin, who had to rely on surrogates like Ludacris and REM's Michael Stipe to energize his base down the stretch. Chambliss vacuumed money from big donors as well as the Republican...