Video: “We Know”
posted at 2:50 pm on November 12, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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What will we do without campaign ads? Fortunately, the people of Georgia will keep content flowing through their inability to re-elect Saxby Chambliss the first time around. The NRSC has another ad out today reminding Peach State voters why Jim Martin should find another line of work:
We know Jim Martin voted for what was the largest tax increase in Georgia history
That he voted to raise the sales tax on Georgia families 32 percent.
That he pushed to increase the property tax assessment 150 percent
And that he voted to pad his own taxpayer funded expense account 27 percent
With unchecked power hanging in the balance, Georgia can’t afford another liberal like Jim Martin in Washington.
Jim Martin exemplifies the “change” we’ll get in Washington now that Barack Obama won the presidential election. That’s why the NRSC wants Georgia voters to send Chambliss back — so we can have at least one check on the high-taxing, high-spending administration to come.
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I feel sorry for Georgians. This runoff is gonna be a mess.
First test of the Obama “mandate” though?
lorien1973 on November 12, 2008 at 2:52 PM
Also, if they had good content on Martin, why didn’t they fire off every bullet in the original election?
lorien1973 on November 12, 2008 at 2:52 PM
Future of the nation bellweather?
Bishop on November 12, 2008 at 3:02 PM
The original election included a Libertarian candidate who got about 8% of the vote. GA has a 50%+1 rule, so a runoff was required.
tgibson1962 on November 12, 2008 at 3:03 PM
I imagine that they did. However, being the only election and one that could affect the Senate balance, they have more money and therefore more ads.
infidel2 on November 12, 2008 at 3:04 PM
They did, good ads ran constantly, problem is Saxby himself…
Not conservative enough
I will vote for him again and purge before I get home.I hope others will do the same.
beththebaker on November 12, 2008 at 3:05 PM
And that Saxby Chambliss voted for the biggest bailout bill in history–despite the advice of 90% of his constituents.
BitterClinger on November 12, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Today, we are all Georgians.
kirkill on November 12, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Surely we can find a way for you to vote here :)
beththebaker on November 12, 2008 at 3:09 PM
Awesome. LOL
Doesn’t matter who wins, though. Nuclear option.
And I think I’d like to have the democrats get 60 seats. The pressure brought to bare on them would be enormous. They wouldn’t be able to help themselves.
lorien1973 on November 12, 2008 at 3:10 PM
I will vote for him again too.
I don’t think it bodes well for Johnny Isakson to get re-elected in 2010 either. I would have to hold my nose at him too.
Brat on November 12, 2008 at 3:20 PM
How true.
beththebaker on November 12, 2008 at 3:27 PM
he original election included a Libertarian candidate who got about 8% of the vote. GA has a 50%+1 rule, so a runoff was required.
Actually Saxby got 48.6%, Martin 45.6%, and the Libertarian 3.4% or something like that. 1.87M, 1.76M, 3.75M votes.
Chuck145 on November 12, 2008 at 3:31 PM
Hopefully, without Obama on the ballot, some of them will stay home and not vote. I live in GA. It’s true, Saxby ads were running, especially in the homestretch, when Repubs focused attention on not letting the Dims get a filibuster-proof Senate. Has the Libertarian candidate endorsed either one? Martin is a real waste, ran for Lt. Gov last time and lost. It’s really hard to believe that this is even a race, but this year things are all different. If only Chambliss had voted “no” on the bailout, but I think he drank Paulson’s kool-aid and was scared to death it would all implode.
ellenb on November 12, 2008 at 3:33 PM
Your vote counts are right, but percentages wrong: Chambliss got 49.8%, Martin 46.8%, and Libertarian 3.4%. Only a little off, but you can see just how close he came to winning it without a runoff. Saw Chambliss on Fox this a.m. and he stated he was approx. 8000 votes from winning it outright.
ellenb on November 12, 2008 at 3:40 PM
Hey, I’m just worried that if the NRSC runs an anti-Jim Martin ad a day now through the runoff, they’ll run out of material a couple days before the election. It will be terrible if by November 28th they have to resort to messages like “Jim Martin has been known to fart in the Cracker Barrel so loudly that it sets off alarms on a half dozen cars out in the parking lot.”
radjah shelduck on November 12, 2008 at 3:42 PM
no worries. the 2008 bailout will be peanuts to what’s coming in 2009 and 2010.
can you imagine? AmEx, a company that profits on keeping people in debt, is asking for taxpayer money? Boggling.
And those $2 trillion in loans the Feds won’t talk about. What’s up with that? US only has $800 billion in circulation at any time. Uh, what happens if that $2 trillion in cash hits the streets?
lorien1973 on November 12, 2008 at 3:42 PM
I’d vote for that!
lorien1973 on November 12, 2008 at 3:43 PM
Not disputing what you are saying; in fact, I concur. Just saying that in the immediate present, a “NO” vote on the bailout could be fresh enough on the people’s memories that voting for Chambliss would be much easier to swallow (or even easier to swallow Nov. 4 and could have avoided this runoff – just 8000 votes was all he needed if what he stated this morning was correct)
ellenb on November 12, 2008 at 3:52 PM
I’m starting to like the idea of democrats getting 60 seats. They wouldn’t be able to help themselves. They’d be drunk with power.
Look, the thing is gonna tank anyways – it’s just a matter of time. Let’s do it now, rather than later.
I’m still in crash and burn mode from the bailout.
lorien1973 on November 12, 2008 at 3:54 PM
Saxby should find another line of work as well.
gatorboy on November 12, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Ditto! Let’s get this over with.
Crash it down so that we can rebuild on a more stable foundation.
gatorboy on November 12, 2008 at 4:30 PM
I’m really in shock that people didn’t look at the state of Illinois as an example of what’s going to happen with 0bama in office. Every major highway is a toll road, and they’re all in terrible shape, they have the highest sales tax in the country and pay income tax to boot.
We’re Screwed ‘08
Sponge on November 12, 2008 at 4:38 PM
I’ll get my ass out to the polls and vote for Chambliss because Jim Martin’s ads seem like they were scripted by Code Pink, but voting for Mr. Gang of Ten hurts.
Mynuet on November 12, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Well, maybe the election isn’t over… why else would Obama still be sending me emails, asking for $30. Just got the email today, buy your “Victory” t-shirt.
El_Terrible on November 12, 2008 at 6:01 PM
Saxby would have won easily if he had voted against the bailout. Probably 90% of the votes the third party canidate got were protest votes from people that weren’t about to vote Dem but were really upset with Saxby. Saxby will probably win the runoff. Let’s hope being forced into a runoff gets him to remeber that he is working for the people of the State of Georgia. While the bailout is the most recent vote where Saxby didn’t represent the people of Georgia, it is by no means the first time. Lot’s of voters are disgusted with him.
Buford on November 12, 2008 at 6:01 PM
you always want to define your opponent well before he can define himself and before election day. Even though the two have been going at it for a while now before the run off, this needs to be treated like a new election and the same rules apply. does Georgia want to be the state which hands the country over to unchecked liberals? perfect theme to run on. ofcourse, they need to tout Saxby’s accomplishments as well, whatever they are (i’m not from Georgia).
Daemonocracy on November 12, 2008 at 6:06 PM
I voted for Saxby holding my nose as he was for shamnesty! Having said that Jim Martin would be an utter disaster for Georgia and this country!
grapeknutz on November 12, 2008 at 7:33 PM
Hmmmmm….Duluth, Georgia….Duluth, Minnesota….Gore Vidal…hmmmmm…
Doug on November 13, 2008 at 1:10 AM
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