Georgia runoff called 2010 preview

Don't bet on the Democrats grabbing this seat. With Saxby already coming within a few thousand votes of a clear majority, he needs only to win 10% of the former Libertarian voters to pull it off (assuming people don't change their original vote). Couple that with the new ads the Repubs can (should) run about keeping some semblance of a balance of power in the Senate, and you can be assured of a Chambliss victory. It's a lock. (Significant scandal or major unpredictable world event aside, of course)

Regarding the balance of power, I like the GOP's new slogan: "Don't let the Dems be like us"! Works for me!

GlobalEye - I got a better one. "Remember 1993!"

Yes,Saxby should win but then with the massive CHEATING by democrats who knows...And I am looking specifically at Minn. I am an election Judge ...there is no way that you are going to "FIND" 300+ votes in somebody's car and all of them for one party. Likewise all the other votes they are "finding" are going to Franken at a 70% rate when only 50% went to Obama??? That is whack, no Franken voter is going to support McCain and vise - versa. This is CHEATING pure and simple, The republicans won and like before the Democrats are trying to corrupt the voting process and steal the election.

PhillipLatio25, you misunderstand runoffs. Chambliss only needs 10% of the 3rd party vote if the same proportion of voters turn out for him again. Runoffs have notoriously lower turnout, so ground game is everything. If Obama leaves his organization intact and turns it toward electing Martin, then Chambliss has a race on his hands. McCain did better against Obama than Chambliss did against Martin. Since McCain's supporters had notoriously low enthusiasm and were mostly just anti-Obama, it might be reasonable to assume that enthusiasm for Chambliss is even weaker. If so, then the Obama turnout machine could easily make all the difference for Martin.

OBAMA SENDING "ACORN" INTO GEORGIA!!! CAN ANYONE STOP THIS MAN? Stop the certification of Obama before the Electoral College meets on December 15. Each state has “X” numbers of Electors who will meet at their respective capitals to certify the wishes of the voting public. CONTACT those Electors and request they DEMAND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP before certifying Obama. If the Courts dismiss P. Berg suits along with all the other suits others have filed, the Electoral College is the next line of defense. Google all of the other 2008 presidential candidates such as Nader, Barr and others who possibly would have “standing” in this situation and get them to join in a lawsuit alleging the lack of citizenship of Obama. Write your Electors……….the more of us to do so, the greater the impact will be. Call Secretary of State in each state to get the names–write to them. Get the Republican Governors on your list, too. Email JudicialWatch.org with the information about Obama’s 2006 taxpayer funded trip to Kenya to campaign for Odinga. Tell them to look into the abuse of Obama using the Senate office to solicit campaign funds for Odinga’s campaign. The taxpayers also are coughing up the funds for his Senate Staffer, Lippert, who Obama used as a liaison between Obama and Odinga. The same treatment should apply to Obama as is to Ted Stevens. Both should spend some pen time. Let’s flood Judicial Watch with requests and plead for their assistance. Help stop the charade perpetrated by Obama, the master of fraud and his radical leftist extremists.

Obama likely to escape campaign audit ---- BUT NOT McCAIN. The Federal Election Commission is unlikely to conduct a potentially embarrassing audit of how Barack Obama raised and spent his presidential campaign’s record-shattering windfall, despite allegations of questionable donations and accounting that had the McCain campaign crying foul. Adding insult to injury for Republicans: The FEC is obligated to complete a rigorous audit of McCain’s campaign coffers, which will take months, if not years, and cost McCain millions of dollars to defend. Obama is expected to escape that level of scrutiny mostly because he declined an $84 million public grant for his campaign that automatically triggers an audit and because the sheer volume of cash he raised and spent minimizes the significance of his errors. Another factor: The FEC, which would have to vote to launch an audit, is prone to deadlocking on issues that inordinately impact one party or the other – like approving a messy and high-profile probe of a sitting president. McCain, on the other hand, accepted the $84 million in taxpayer money, which not only barred him from raising or spending more – allowing Obama to fund many times more ads and ground operations – but also will keep his lawyers… http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15497.html THEY PICK AND CHOSE WHICH POLICIES TO ADHERE TO - AND WHEN TO BE ETHICAL. RIDICULOUS!! WRITE TO THE FEC TO COMPLAIN! HERE ARE THE COMMISSIONERS ADDRESSES: CommissionerWalther@fec.gov CommissionerBauerly@fec.gov CommissionerHunter@fec.gov CommissionerPetersen@fec.gov

smrs, no one is going to find votes in the back of a car. There are 15,000 undervotes as counted by the optical scanning machines. As per state law, these will be examined by hand. Some of them will turn out to have been machine error - and these will likely divvy up evenly between the candidates. Others will be voter error - a stray line - a crossed out opponent, etc. Minnesota law requires these votes to count if the intent of the voter is clear, as determined by observers of both parties. Since these errors are more common amongst first time voters and ESL voters, these votes can be expected to break slightly for Franken. 52 or 53% will be enough for Franken to win. He may not reach it. The number will be in that neighborhood, perhaps 51%, perhaps higher. But whatever it is, the truth is the election is a tie. Just like the Bush/Gore FL fiasco, the margin of victory - for whoever turns out to be the victor - is far smaller than the margin of error in a statewide election with millions of ballots cast. The number of votes thrown away is larger by several orders of magnitude. It is a tie. It is a drag for whoever loses, but you can't fault the state of Minnesota for trying to do their best to determine the results as accurately as possible, in accordance with the law. From the look of it so far, whether Franken wins or loses, MN is doing a far better job of the recount than FL did If you are really an election judge, your spurious partisan rancor is more than a little alarming, and the outright misinformation is ridiculous. My guess is you are a judge like Joe is a plumber - do you work in a courthouse maybe?

PS - smrs - You said "no Franken voter is going to support McCain and vise - versa." Obama won MN by double digits. Franken/Coleman is a tie. By your logic, then, the vast majority of those Senate votes that the machines missed must be for Franken. No cheating required, just your very own statistical analysis.