Could Georgia be in play? Martin moving in on Chambliss, early voters going for Obama

[CurtEastPoint]

from today's AJC. GOD! Please! Help us get rid of Saxby (asshole supreme). Jim Martin can do it.

WXIA/WMAZ poll: McCain-Obama race tightens in Georgia, Chambliss and Martin separated by 2 points
Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 12:22 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

WXIA in Atlanta and WMAZ in Macon have just put out a new SurveyUSA poll that indicates the presidential and U.S. Senate races in Georgia have tightened significantly during the economic free-fall.

Bottom line: The two TV stations say Republican John McCain, who had held a 16-point lead two weeks ago, is now polling 52 percent, with Democrat Barack Obama at 44 percent. Only 2 percent are undecided.

Margin of error is plus or minus 3.8 percent, with 677 likely voters polled.

The biggest swings in the presidential race are among young voters and those with household incomes of less than $50,000.

One interesting statistic, simply because it reflects intensity:

Among the 9% of Georgia voters who say they have already voted, Obama leads by 29 points; among those who have not yet voted, McCain leads by 12.

But the real eye-opener may be the race between Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin. SurveyUSA says it’s now a two-point race, 46 percent to 44 percent. Libertarian Allen Buckley is at 5 percent.

That’s not dissimilar to the DSCC poll noted in this space yesterday, which put Chambliss at 37 percent, Martin at 34 percent, and Buckley at 3 percent.

[trashcanistanista]

1. Holy Moley!

I certainly hope so! That is great! I was thinking of going to GA to help (I have family there - outside ATL) I am from CA and they don't need us here. Do you think this would be useful?

[ecstatic]

2. GA is definitely in play! We have been given 45 days to vote!

I tell everyone I know to get their asses out there to vote...but the only discrepancy is some people don't trust the paper ballots, and others don't trust the machines.

[napi21]

7. We live in Ga. and sent ot absentee ballot last week! I don't trust the

machines either, BUT if enough Dem votes are cast, even the machines won't be able to change the outcome. To those who don't trust the paper absentee ballot, please tell them that all info from those absentee ballots is entered into a Diebold machine by one of the clerks in the registrar's office. I saw them entering them when we stood in line to vote in 2004! If they're afraid of the mail, you can take your absentee ballot to your registrar's office yourself. For those of us who don't trust the Diebold machines, your option is to just give up and let the idiots win again!

[GAtomboy]

3. I would LOVE if GA went to Obama

I know I'll be at the polls casting my vote for Obama. I even commented the other day that I have been seeing quite a few Obama bumper stickers outside of Atlanta.

[iceman66]

4. Is GA still using the Diebold machines?

A lot may depend on that!

[tosh]

6. I am trying to find out.

Where my mother lives they are touchscreens but I'm not sure if these are statewide or who makes them.

[RubyDuby in GA]

9. Yes.

[tosh]

10. RubyDuby is right.

From p/r 2002:

Under the terms of the contract, Diebold Election Systems, a leading manufacturer and installer of electronic voting systems, will provide Georgia with 19,015 touch-screen voting units for balloting in the state’s 2,823 precincts in all 159 counties. Diebold will also provide some 400 optical scan ballot readers for absentee balloting. The systems will be operated and managed by the company’s Global Election Management (GEMS) software. Under terms of the agreement, Diebold will also provide training and support to election offices in every Georgia county.

[iceman66]

15. Well, in that case

we can forget about winning Georgia!

[CurtEastPoint]

11. YEP! Diebold unfortunately. I already voted in Fulton Co.

I live inside 285 and see NO McLame stickers and Obama stickers EVERYWHERE! Haven't ventured outside the perimeter but I bet O leads there, too.

Oh, yeah, Fair Tax Linder... needs to go also. Hell, they ALL need to go.

Sonny Perdue trotted his fat ass off to SPAIN while we are here w/no gas in Atlanta. How's that for leadership? Of course, we CANNOT buy liquor/beer/wine on Sundays! Save that Sabbath!!!

[tosh]

5. I've believed for a while that Georgia could be in play.

It's been partly a gut-feeling bolstered by my own knowledge of vast numbers of cellphone-only voters, a viral disgust for Ga's Repug governor and the nuclear war that's been waged on the state's small-biz/independant-biz community.

This news is encouraging.

Saxby needs to say ta-ta.

[RubyDuby in GA]

8. I voted last Friday and was thrilled that I didn't have to hold my nose to vote for my ticket this

time!

I proudly voted for Obama/Biden, Jim Martin and Doug Heckman (who is trying to replace that asshat Mr. FairTax himself, John Linder).

If you can spare anything, please help Martin or Heckman out:
www.martinforsenate.com
www.dougheckman.com


Thanks!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. Could we hypothetically win Georgia?

Yes, we can.

[gademocrat7]

13. Good news

My husband and I are voting absentee. I want sack of shit chambliss gone. Jim Martin is an intelligent good person.

[grantcart]

14. If it is even close in Georgia it will be a landslide

[beachmom]

16. At the moment it is a LEAN McCain state. However, McCain

has little to no organization here except the churches. I don't think that includes GOTV, however, just that the propaganda will be shared at the conservative churches to vote McCain (and break IRS rules). Meanwhile, we are quite organized in Georgia, even in red areas, to really get our vote out. This will help Martin as well.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

17. Has it been six awful years already for Saxby?

He really left his mark.