Georgia Senate Race Still In Doubt, Could Go To Runoff

Atlanta Journal Constitution:

Georgia's U.S. Senate race remained in doubt Wednesday morning as neither major party candidate had more than 50 percent of the vote.

Incumbent U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) held a 49.8 percent to 46.8 percent advantage over Democrat Jim Martin with 96 percent of the state precincts counted, according to the Georgia Secretary of State's Office as of 8 a.m. Wednesday. Libertarian Allen Buckley had 3.4 percent of the vote.

Read the whole story: Atlanta Journal Constitution

Comments

[GeorgiamomforObama]

They say there are 100,000 not counted yet!!

[mediamarv]

Being from and having family in, I can say with authority that Chambliss (who the hell named him Saxby??) is a tool for all the carpeting companies who fight unionization almost as much as they fight the devil.
People like him keep ignorance , racial intolerance and bigotry alive in that backward state (sorry,Mom).

[BarackDaVote]

All of these seems very suspicious to me.......T­he truth will be revealed soon

[aubrey8]

the Minnesota race is most suspicious.

[RedInGeorgia]

I don't know where several posters are getting this 2,000,000 missing ballot figure. The 2006 population of Fulton and Gwinnett counties aren't even 2M (960K & 758K respectively).

The AJC articles says "tens of thousands". Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Also remember that while Fulton County went DEM for Obama (and likely Martin), Gwinnett County is heavily REP.

That being said...I can't wait to see Saxby Shameless booted out of the Senate!

[milo h minderbinder]

Wouldn't two million missing ballots be an insanely high number considering the turnout yesterday was about 3.8 million total? And with the turnout in 2004 only about 3.3 million?

There may be some votes missing, but that number just seems impossibly high.

[Bronx56]

This will give the people of Georgia a chance to redeem themselves­.......Boo­t this cretin out.......­..You deserve better....­....XXXXXX­OOOOOO....­the civilized world.....­.

[ShanniC]

I live in Altanta, and I KNEW something was fishy. Chambliss will lose a runoff!

[ShanniC]

Fulton, Deklab, Clayton, and Gwinnett are heavily African American/Democratic strongholds. I personally still believe that Georgia can go blue for Obama AND that Jim Martin may outright when and avoid a runoff once all the early voting ballots are counted. I voted early on Oct 9th for Obama in Atlanta, and I do not believe that Chambliss won!

[oldguru]

I sincerely hope that Chambliss will lose in a runoff. I cannot even look at that man after what he did to
a decent man to win that seat in the first place.

[EllaBee]

This is a good sign. This is the least we can do for Obama since we didn't turn GA Blue.

[CountryBeforeParty]

But if there are 2 million ballots missing, could that affect the outcome of Obama/McCain?

I would think it would affect the Congressional races in my area too.

[blueskybigstar]

What are you talking about? Please, inform.

[Ozarks]

Georgia went repug doesn't matter about national outcome of EV's

[blueboomerintx]

Go, GA!

Boot this sorry old b*g@t out!

C'mon, you can do it (if they can find all those "missing" ballots)!

[Linda51]

Run Off, Run Off!

Then President Obama can campaign for Martin. Easy win!

[honeydiva]

yeah they are trying to steal it for him!

[Cakey4814]

Okay..if I have to go out one more time and vote to kick Chambliss out I will.

[VOTER]

I sure would if I could.

: - )

[NatashaYahnee]

There are about 2,000,000 advance votes "missing" from Fulton & Gwinnett counties (surprise, surprise, surprise). I suspect that when they get them all counted (and accounted for) there will indeed be a run-off.

[CountryBeforeParty]

Holy crap! I live in Gwinnett!

[blueskybigstar]

Are these areas urban? I mean black?

[CountryBeforeParty]

Fulton County is where Atlanta is.

Gwinnett is NE of Atlanta, next to Fulton County. It is the largest county in Georgia, population wise

[alecmcc]

DeKalb and Fulton Counties are major population centers in metro Atlanta. Both are predominately African-American with a VERY high percentage of white liberals. John Lewis (D-GA) represents much of this area.

[Grunty1]

I've heard from several sources that a run off is a win for Martin.

Come on Georgia!