The sun shines on Georgia's Senate race this morning with Saxby Chambliss (R) holding a slim lead over Democratic challenger Jim Martin. Here's what Jim Galloway reported at 6:30 this morning in his Political Insider column at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 06:30 AM: Republican Saxby Chambliss continues to cling to a slim lead in the U.S. Senate race, a cushion of 138,511 votes. A handful of missing boxes in both Carroll and DeKalb counties may give us the answer of whether we have a Dec. 2 runoff. Democrat Jim Martin is at 46.2 percent.
Here are the latest numbers from AP, with 98 percent of precincts reporting:
Saxby Chambliss — 1,768,378 — 51%
Jim Martin — 1,629,867 — 46%
Allen Buckley — 120,840 — 3%
I was living in Georgia when Saxby Chambliss first won his Senate seat by challenging the Democratic encumbent Max Cleland in a nasty race in which Republican ads questioned the patriotism of Cleland, a Vietnam veteran who had lost his legs and one arm in the Vietnam War. I'm no conspiracist, but where are those missing ballots this year?
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