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...year after the Undergraduate Council presidential election registered its lowest vote totals in more than a decade, candidates in the current election will have more time to make contact with potential supporters...
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...that for some voters the real election was a few weeks ago and that this is just details," says Merle Black, a political science professor at Emory University. "Obama on the ballot increased turnout and now people just aren't as motivated to vote for Martin." An appearance by Obama might have changed the momentum. "That was the only card [Martin] had to play at this point," says Charles S. Bullock, a political science professor at University of Georgia...
Chambliss was forced to remain in campaign mode against Martin because of a state election law that requires a runoff if neither candidate wins 50% plus one additional vote. The results of the Nov. 4 election were Chambliss 49.8%; Martin 46.8% and Libertarian candidate Allen Buckley with 3.4%. Right now Martin trails Chambliss in polls by as many as five percentage points. The Martin campaign says that speculation that Martin is trailing because blacks aren't drawn to support him without Obama in sight is "one of the vicious campaign tactics Chambliss is famous for." Chambliss, for his part...
...Monday, focusing on encouraging voters in Republican strongholds to come to the polls one last time. The Chambliss line about being the firewall against an Obama agenda is resonating with voters. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 52% of Georgia voters say they would be less likely to vote for Martin if it meant the Democrats would gain a 60-seat majority in the Senate. Meanwhile, 9% of those planning to vote for Martin said the thought of a filibuster-proof Senate makes them less likely to vote...