The battle for the GA Senate
Neither candidate received 50 percent of the votes plus one to win the election forcing the run-off election in the historically republican state.
Democrats are rallying voters and hoping to have the same enthusiastic turnout they showed in the presidential election.
“Jim Martin has earned my respect, my confidence, and my vote on Dec. 2,” Noah DeWalt, vice president of Young Democrats, said. “He has pledged to stand with President Obama on the issues that matter to the American people, and to move this country progressively forward with a coalition of unprecedented diversity. With Democrats and Republicans at the table together, change will come to America. This is the time to set divisive partisanship aside and to unite in support of the candidate, regardless of party affiliation, who has always and will continue to put people before politics. And that candidate is Jim Martin.”
Republicans are trying to prevent the potential 60-seat, filibuster-proof majority that Mr. Martin’s election would produce.
“As a republican, one of the most important issues to me is avoiding a democratic super majority in the senate I am voting for Saxby Chambliss because I think he is the best person for the job and will be a strong checks and balances voice for the Senate,” Jason White, president of the GCSU chapter of College Republicans, said. “The College Republicans will be doing phone banking, door to door, sign waving, and hosting and attending events and rallies. Republicans need to get out the vote and we have to motivate them.”
Chambliss seems to be winning points by drawing Martin into a debate over a “fair tax” proposal. Chambliss beat Martin in 2002 with three percentage points. Georgia is also noted as red state, a state in which McCain won by five percentage points.
According to an article in the New York Times, McCain asked for support from voters saying, “I’m asking you to go into battle one more time.”
Democrats in Georgia are hoping Obama will pay a visit to the South to campaign in support of Martin.
Democrats in Georgia are hoping Obama will pay a visit to the South to campaign in support of Martin while the Republicans are lobbying for an appearance my Gov. Sarah Palin and former presidential candidate John McCain.
Georgians will have one more time to make their vote count. Students can go to their designated precincts and cast a vote on Dec. 2.
The pressure is on as the Democrat majority Congress are looking for a filibuster approved seats and Republicans try to gain hold of Georgia, which has been so long a Red state.
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on Nov 21 2008. Filed under News.
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