Chambliss Appears to be Ahead in Early Reporting -

[ksimons]

Source: Georgia Sec State Website

Track the current numbers directly below:

Read more: http://sos.georgia.gov/elections/election_results/2008_1202/003.htm

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I removed % in title as it will be changing through the night. The prospect of a 60-seat, filibuster-resistant Senate majority may be falling short on the outcome of Tuesday’s runoff between Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss and Democratic challenger Jim Martin. Early numbers indicate that the turnout in the Georgia runoff election places Chambliss ahead of Martin in a battle that saw an onslaught of every major GOP biggie flying into Georgia to try to prevent further erosion of the sliding hillside that is the Republican Party.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. That is sickening.

[Imagevision]

2. With Lieberman still in play does it really matter?

[ksimons]

3. WAY too early to say, but can track using the link as results are posted

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

4. That's just the rural counties

voting for that fat mealy-mouthed granddaughter-groping draft-dodging cracker.

[aquart]

7. There's a chunk of Atlanta in there, too.

Not good.

[Ediacara]

5. Where did you get that text from?

That doesn't appear on the SOS's website.

PLUS, there's only 4% of the vote in, from what appears to be mostly rural areas.

[aquart]

6. Nothing counted in Atlanta, Savannah, Macon....

I don't know if that's good or bad.

On edit: Gwinnett is Atlanta so yes they are counting and yes it's bad.

[Doctor_J]

8. This was a looooooong shot. GA is the buckle of the Hate Radio Belt

I feel sorry for the liberals and city folk who have to live amongst the hordes of Limbeciles.

[scytherius]

9. Agreed n/t

nt

[ksimons]

10. Nate Silver: 'I haven't found a single county...'

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com which closely predicted the November 4th election says 'I haven't found a single county with a significant percentage of the vote in where Chambliss isn't performing better than he did on November 4. This looks like a 14 point win for him or something.'

[onehandle]

11. I believe it. nt

[still_one]

12. The truth is we couldn't count on all 60 Democrats anyway. However,

there WILL be some republicans such as collins and maybe spector who may vote with us

[Diane R]

13. Does Georgia have paper ballots, or is this a Diebold scenario?

[Mike Daniels]

14. Obama handily lost GA. Did you really think Martin had a shot?

n/t

[mitchum]

15. Crackers love child molesters with ridiculous names

[Peace Patriot]

16. NO paper ballot. NO recount possible. NO audit possible. Totally fraudulent

election SYSTEM. Built for fraud. Delivering fraud.

And even if it delivers Martin--for whatever weird, long term planning motives the fascist voting machine corporation may have--it is still not recountable, not auditable, and not provable.

Half the voting systems in the country are like this--100% non-transparent. The other half are barely transparent--they may have a paper ballot backup, but do a ZERO audit or only 1% audit (very inadequate in a 'TRADE SECRET' code system). How can we put up with this? We can't even prove that Barack Obama was elected! It's up to the far rightwing, private voting machine corporations to tell us who won. Insane!

[AndyTiedye]

17. Diebold Republican Electing Machinez

Have we won a single election in GA since Diebold went in?

[Javaman]

18. The only upshot to this is...

the Dems don't have to placate to lieberman for his vote any more.