Six years ago, as the nascent liberal blogosphere first began to coalesce, one particular incident quickly became seared in our minds, forever to be a rallying cry - something we would never let go unanswered again. I'm speaking of Saxby Chambliss's unthinkably odious ad in which he slurred Max Cleland by pairing the triple-amputee war hero with images of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein:
I know you haven't forgotten this grave offense - none of us have. That's why I've put our goal thermometer right along side that ad, so that we can finally exact payback for this most outrageous and underhanded attack.
I'll be honest: I didn't think we'd see this day so soon. Georgia hasn't exactly been fertile territory for Democrats in some time, and I figured Saxby would cruise to re-election. Fortunately, the political environment and the quality of our nominee have changed things dramatically. We need to seize this opportunity, to honor Max Cleland, to show that we won't get bullied, and to send a great populist progressive like Jim Martin to the Senate.
We've already made awesome progress toward our goal in just twenty-four hours. But time is running very, very short. Barely more than three weeks remain until election day. Please give now.
Atlanta attorney Jim Martin had much to celebrate last night at Piedmont Park's Park Tavern as he, his family, and campaign team savored a landslide victory rout over DeKalb County Executive Vernon Jones.
Atlanta's WSB-TV is reporting this morning that Martin garnered 190000+ votes to win 60/40 over Jones with 99% of precints reporting. WSB election results data can be found here.
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitition:
.Turnout was light in the race for the Democratic Party nomination for the U.S. Senate seat held by incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss.
Only 18 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the primary, and fewer than half of those were expected to return to the polls Tuesday for 12 hours of voting that began at 7 a.m.
