Georgia - U.S. Senate Results

[R. Richard]

Georgia - U.S. Senate

Saxby Chambliss - R Incumbent 1,015,912 59%
Jim Martin - D 702,149 41%

83% of precincts reporting - Updated Dec-02-2008 09:45 PM

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Sometimes, this state really depresses me.


Fucking Chambliss voted for Telco Immunity. Why does no one get this is a bad thing?

 

[TE999]

Georgia - U.S. Senate

Saxby Chambliss - R Incumbent 1,015,912 59%
Jim Martin - D 702,149 41%

83% of precincts reporting - Updated Dec-02-2008 09:45 PM

Good...no Democrat majority...we still have a two party system in the Republic...the Founding Fathers would be proud.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Tension rules. So long as neither party has a filibuster-proof majority, no law can be passed which does not have the backing of all. The Republic will survive.

p.s. I'm not worried about Barack so much as some of the enthusiasts who adore him. Respect is not adoration.

 

[Pornguin]

Now all eyes are on Minnesota, and there will be a lot of unhappy people no matter who wins.

 

[R. Richard]

Just to beat it into the ground, even if all the remaining votes were cast for Martin, Chambliss still wins.

Georgia - U.S. Senate

Saxby Chambliss - R Incumbent 1,145,706 58%
Jim Martin - D 823,384 42%

93% reporting (3075 of 3303 precincts) - Updated Dec-02-2008 10:25 PM

 

[Boxlicker101]

I know nothing about either of the candidates, but I'm glad the Republican won. The idea of one-party rule, such as we had for much of the last sixty years would be quite distressing. At least the Dems can't take too much for granted now.

 

[Pornguin]

It still won't be that easy for the GOP to filibuster: you have RINOs like Olympia Snowe and John McCain, after all.

 

[TE999]

It still won't be that easy fopr the GOP to filibuster: you have RINOs like Olympia Snowe and John McCain, after all.

True...but you also have some moderate to conservative Democrats...on many issues they balance out.

 

[R. Richard]

Perhaps the interesting thing is the margin of victory. Chambliss won by 57% to 43%. That's something of a landslide in what was supposed to be a close race. It makes you wonder what sort of a message the voters of Georgia were sending.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Perhaps the interesting thing is the margin of victory. Chambliss won by 57% to 43%. That's something of a landslide in what was supposed to be a close race. It makes you wonder what sort of a message the voters of Georgia were sending.

Vehement rejection of the national trend?

 

[Pornguin]

In November, Chambliss had to deal with the fact that he soured conservatves on him while at the same time liberals came in to vote for Obama in order to make themselves feel good about themselves. This time, Conservatoves went in to stop a 60 Democrat senate, and there was no feel good for the liberals.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Saxby Chambliss was the scumbucket who won his seat by impugning the patriotism of decorated Vietnam war vet and triple-amputee Max Clelland in one of the sleaziest ad campaigns in the sleaze-filled election season of 2002. The details are here.

Chambliss, of course, did not serve n Vietnam. He had a "bad knee".

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Mab has a solid point. Chambliss's election is no good thing.

Now, I wouldn't mind if Coleman does beat Franken, especially if it allows for filibusters. But Chambliss is unadulterated scum. If I believed in Hell, I'd say that there was a special place for him there.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Saxby Chambliss was the scumbucket who won his seat by impugning the patriotism of decorated Vietnam war vet and triple-amputee Max Clelland in one of the sleaziest ad campaigns in the sleaze-filled election season of 2002. The details are here.

Chambliss, of course, did not serve n Vietnam. He had a "bad knee".

Which is why he got along so well with Cheney.

 

[R. Richard]

Vehement rejection of the national trend?

That's one possible explanation. However, what was suspposed to be a close race was anything but. The possible trend bears watching [no pun intended.]

 

[SweetPrettyAss]

Which is why he got along so well with Cheney.

He probably would have gotten along well with Bill Clinton who was also a draft-dodger.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

He probably would have gotten along well with Bill Clinton who was also a draft-dodger.

Or President Bush, hmm?

Clinton didn't get to where he did by calling a decorated, disabled vet a coward though, like Chamblis did. There's rather no comparison in scumminess.

Your republican party is filled with tough-talking draft-dodgers who are only too happy to send other men's sons to die in their place.

 

[SweetPrettyAss]

Or President Bush, hmm?

Clinton didn't get to where he did by calling a decorated, disabled vet a coward though, like Chamblis did. There's rather no comparison in scumminess.

Your republican party is filled with tough-talking draft-dodgers who are only too happy to send other men's sons to die in their place.

Bush was a member of the Texas National Guard. I don't know what circumstances would have sent him into combat, but it could have happened. Clinton sat the war out in Europe with student deferments.

Those are also women's sons, such as Sarah Palin's.

 

[Liar]

Georgia - U.S. Senate

Saxby Chambliss - R Incumbent 1,015,912 59%
Jim Martin - D 702,149 41%

83% of precincts reporting - Updated Dec-02-2008 09:45 PM

How much is that in terms of turnout?

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Saxby Chambliss was the scumbucket who won his seat by impugning the patriotism of decorated Vietnam war vet and triple-amputee Max Clelland in one of the sleaziest ad campaigns in the sleaze-filled election season of 2002. The details are here.

Chambliss, of course, did not serve n Vietnam. He had a "bad knee".

A-fucking-men, Zoot.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Not a surprising result.

Sad, and sort of pathetic, but not surprising.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Yes, sadly, one chicken-hawk is still with us. Grrrr....

Thrown in the Deserter-in-Chief (Bush went AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard and never fully paid or explained his crime) and the other Mr. Bad Knee (Richard B. Cheney), and what a team we have.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Yes, sadly, one chicken-hawk is still with us. Grrrr....

Thrown in the Deserter-in-Chief (Bush went AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard and never fully paid or explained his crime) and the other Mr. Bad Knee (Richard B. Cheney), and what a team we have.

HAD.

Had.

Whew.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

HAD.

Had.

Whew.

I'm not counting that as past-tense until January 20, you see. I want to make sure that he follows the Constitution at least on that point.