JeffUSMC:

Well, I’m proud that Georgia dissed the Great Anointed. These ‘Soutners’ do think for themselves and see what a empty suit we have ready to inhabit the oval office. The US of A is going to get what it deserves, since he was asked for, get ready to bend over.

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Mike:

Martin campaigns with gangsta rappers. That might get you a handful of young thug votes but it surely loses you hundreds more white votes.

First McCain runs with Daddy Yankee, now this…collectively, they just don’t get it, do they? *laugh*

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Jeff: Would you rather we had lost?

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That is *awesome* that Republicans can hold a seat in Georgia, of all places. That we won in November. Hooah! Go Republicans!!

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Geeze….you Palin naysayers, keep smokin it, REALLY, keep smokin it.

She’s been in the spotlight for three months, from a remote state, overhandled by the mangers, backstabbed by malcontents, where the MSM and detractors have been trying to define her (not to mention the political hit squads). You say she only “attracts to the base” but without that, she no future in the party (something McCain forgot, hence her recruitment). Give me a friggin break boyos. She just got to the dance….let the cards play out a bit.

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Ric,

What RINO from Nebraska? Hagel is bye-bye.

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Nit Wit: Among other things I have actually worked for a member of the U.S. Senate. So I might know a little bit about it.

Larry: Anyway you want to spin it you cannot deny that if Chambliss had lost the press would be blaming Palin and claiming Obama was responsible for Martin’s victory.

Since that did not happen, it’s not unreasonable to give Palin some of the credit and to reflect on the fact that Obama’s effort was for naught.

I suggest you stop spinning before you get dizzy and fall down or become disoriented like Fit Fit.

Missy: Thanks for that link to Red State. That video reminds me of Fit Fit for some reason. The photo, which the Boston Globe story cited above also used was interesting:

Martin campaigns with gangsta rappers. That might get you a handful of young thug votes but it surely loses you hundreds more white votes.

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Craig, Governor Palin certainly energizes the GOP base; there’s no doubt of that. She does not, however, energize moderates or independents in her favor. She plays well to packed GOP houses–perhaps “packed to order” would be a better term, since we’re talking about the party faithful, yes?–but she didn’t do a great deal for the larger electorate.

Having said all of this, there’s no doubt that she helped Chambliss. Runoff elections are notorious for low turnout, and Martin couldn’t sustain the bounce he got from early/absentee voting to create the runoff in the first place. If you go read some of the blogs on the left side, they were as surprised as you on Election Day. Palin definitely kept some GOP faithful in line to vote for the runoff.

I don’t think this was an “all-out effort” by Obama, since he didn’t even show up in Georgia. Frankly, I think that such was a smart move on his part; if he played the “let’s get 60!” game, it would have come across as a total power grab. If I had to guess, he’s playing hands-off in GA and MN (and the other still-undecided spots; there are a few) for a very specific reason; he’s sustaining the “post-partisan” meme that won the election for him. He is NOT the political neophyte as which he has been characterized.

All in all, it was a fairly typical runoff situation. Runoffs usually tend to favor incumbents more than do general elections, even dirtball incumbents–think Jefferson in LA–and Chambliss fit the mold.

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Larry,

Boy you are a sore loser. I have never met anyone with such intense insincerity. Would it kill you to recognize that Sarah can reallly pack the house everywhere she goes and energize everyone? Is your ego as big as Obama or what? Like attracts like… they say.

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Maybe you need to spend more time in reality.

You’re the one so caught up in the tribalism of partisan politics that you talk like you’re a member of the Senate. Kinda sad.

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