Saxby Chambliss, a first-term Republican senator, was re-elected by Georgia voters on Tuesday in a substantial victory, ending Democratic hopes for a 60-vote majority in the Senate that would make it difficult for Republicans to filibuster the Obama administration’s legislative agenda.
With 96 percent of the state’s precincts reporting in the runoff election, Mr. Chambliss had 57.5 percent of the vote, and his Democratic challenger, Jim Martin, 42.5 percent. The margin was far greater than the three percentage points that separated the two men in the Nov. 4 election, when neither won the required 50 percent. Many of the Democrats who turned out last month in enthusiastic support of Barack Obama apparently did not show up at the polls on Tuesday. You cant expect Obama's black supportes to get out of bed twice in a month
That only leaves the result in the undecided state of Minnesota, where a recount is under way.The margin at the moment is wafer thin in favour of the Republican Norn Coleman over his oponent, former comedian Al Franken, who , if he loses can go back to what he does best, trying to make people laugh.
