Chambliss wins
This was a race that the Dems weren’t all that whipped-up about. Democrats needed a great candidate and Jim Martin wasn’t it. Saxby Chambliss has won. This doesn’t mean that Barack Obama doesn’t have coattails and it doesn’t mean that the country is leaning back(wards) to the right. It means that we are all tired of Election 2008 and that Georgia has a long way to go before it turns even a slight shade of blue.
BTW, Al Franken, in the race that will never end, has picked up 37 votes.
From AP:
Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss won re-election Tuesday in a runoff, dashing Democrats’ hopes of capturing enough seats in the U.S. Senate to thwart Republican filibusters.
Chambliss’ election to a second term gives the GOP a firewall against Democrats eager to flex their newfound political muscle in Washington. The monthlong runoff battle against Democrat Jim Martin captured the national limelight, drawing political luminaries from both parties to the state and flooding the airwaves with fresh attack ads.
Minnesota — where a recount is under way — now remains the only unresolved Senate contest in the country. With 92 percent of the recount completed, the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s tally had Republican Norm Coleman leading Democrat Al Franken by 340 votes, with nearly 6,000 ballots challenged. (more… )
