I got an email from the Martin campaign this morning with this important request Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, our campaign must buy our remaining television ad slots by the end of the day tomorrow . That means you have just a short time to dramatically affect our campaign. The more support we have from you, the more we’ll be able to reach voters all across Georgia. Well there were s......
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The NRSC runs a Jim Martin will take your guns away ad: I like the Jager Bomb backdrop though. Remember to keep giving to Jim Martin: Let’s reach this goal. Whatever you can afford. First of all anyone with any common sense knows that a politician in Georgia running for the U.S. Senate won’t take away your right to bear arms. Even this Saxby blogger admits tha......
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The Carmouche campaign has released another poll (via email), also done by the Kitchens Group, showing him with a lead: Candidate % of Vote Paul Carmouche (D) 48% John Fleming (R) 37% Undecided/ Wouldn&rsq uo;t Say 15% This is good news for the Carmouche campaign, b......
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Update - Sign the ipetition urging Obama to visit Georgia - http://www .ipetition s.com/peti ... While this news is not a deal breaker for our chances in Georgia, it means we’ve got to work harder. We have just had two days of early voting in Georgia and those numbers are not promising as reported by the AJC . This should not be a damper but rather a wake up call that we need to volunte......
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Allan Buckley, who is seen as a potentially prized endorsement in the Georgia Senate runoff, has a list of principles that he would require an endorsed candidate to sign. Highly doubtful that either Chambliss or Martin would sign the list of principles . However, based on some remarks Buckley made to Senate Guru , it appears that he favors Martin. Senate Guru: Do you believe that Saxby C......
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As you may know, Florida Netroots activists are going to be helping out in the Senate runoff in Georgia for December 2. We’re trying to help push Jim Martin over the top in his race against the vile Saxby Chambliss. If you are interested in helping out with this — which will mostly consist of phonebanking and potentially some trips into South Georgia to knock on doors — send me......
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We’re less than $400 dollars away from reaching our goal for Vietnam Vet and VoteVets.org endorsed Senate candidate Jim Martin .  Jim is running against the worst excuse for a human imaginable Saxby Chambliss, who ran a despicable attack ad against disabled Vietnam Veteran Max Cleland that.., well here are Max’s words : My opponent at the time, Saxby Chambliss, disagreed; ru......
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Saxby Chambliss has a bum knee that kept him from serving in the military. From Huffington Post this morning: "I was determined not to be physically fit," he explained during a debate in August 2002. "I had a bum knee. I had an old football knee that unfortunately they wouldn’t take me." Well that hasn’t kept him from taking junkets to play golf with lobb......
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The Shreveport Times informs us all that Vice-President Dick Cheney will be making his last stand at a fundraiser for Republican hopeful John Fleming on Friday. Fleming asks the citizens of LA-04 to shell out $10,000 to have their pictures taken with Darth Vice President Cheney. This tells us all what kind of Congressman that John Fleming plans to be - one that will be a values ......
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I wrote about this speech in my diary on Friday. Well here is the footage of Zell Miller’s remarks: Jim needs any help he can get. I just got a call from the Jim Martin campaign asking if I could give a little more. I told them I’m going to reach my goal of $3,500 (higher with your help). Can you help me with $5, $10 or whatever you can afford? An interesting......
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Yesterday you answered my call and challenge to help Jim Martin in his Senate Race. We raised $1,023 from 43 different donors. We came together. And I’m sure others gave on other pages as a result. I’m now about $1,000 from my initial goal of $3,500 on  my Peach to Blue . Let me give you some more incentive to give: Saxby refuses to answer a subpoena in Imperial Sugar ca......
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Bottom line:  Saxby Chambliss and his ilk need to understand that you can’t get six deferments out of Vietnam and then question the patriotism of an American hero and get away with it. Let’s not let this one go.  Saxby Chambliss said Max Cleland, a Vietnam vet and triple amputee, didn’t have the courage to lead: The same Saxby Chambliss is now engaged i......
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Senator Saxby Chambliss, the chickenhawk Senator from Georgia, is defending his deplorable attacks on disabled Veteran Max Cleland: The ad in question shows Max Cleland, a former Army officer who came home from Vietnam as a triple amputee, next to pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, and alleges that Cleland lacked the courage to lead. That’s right. Saxby Chamblis......
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Tudor ran a great grassroots campaign and did better against Opie than any other Democrat has done. In doing so, he ran up some debt: Friends, Your response to my last note has been overwhelming. Your support never ceases to amaze me. Our 2008 campaign now has only 24 hours left. Reducing my family’s personal debt to this campaign will go a long way in my ability to set up a credible r......
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Today should be a very somber Veterans Day as we think about the those serving, those we have lost and those injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unfortunately, the Veterans seemed to be put on the backburner of issues during this election to the economy, gas prices and health care. IAVA and the AD council have teamed together to launch a new ad campaign directed at helping veterans facing trans......
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I guess it's now safe to believe that we have elected a Democratic President in America.  For the last three nights Barack Obama has been President-elect when I went to bed and still President-elect when I got up the next morning.  Honestly, the first night I didn't sleep much for worrying that the victory would be snatched away in the wee hours, again .  I'm sleeping a......
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Now crossposted on DK and MyDD In my last diary, I mentioned a new fundraising idea for Jim Martin, our runoff-bound progressive Democrat for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat.  Here it is! A few months ago, my girlfriend and I were at one of the many antique shops that grace the Marietta Square.  While there, I found a had-to-have....the March 11, 1957 issue of Life magazine.  ......
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(photo credit: Adrian P. ) Okay folks.  Now that I have a little free time back, I’m going to be back closer to full speed around the bar. And that means it’s time for a little runoff politics.  The next few weeks are going to be huge as we focus our efforts on turning out voters for the runoff.  I know this has turned into the election that never ends, but......
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We have an opportunity like no other to continue our good works of this election and send Jim Martin to the U.S. Senate from Georgia. How sweet a sound it would be to send Saxby Chambliss to defeat in December. From Chambliss’s campaign spokesperson Michelle Grasso in The AJC . "The profile of the race went up in the last few weeks. We’ll be getting some extra hands and we ......
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http://www .ajc.com/m etro/conte ... Yes, indeedeedoo, Saxby Chambliss is now at 49.9%.  You gotta love the Libertarian Party at this moment!  Now, assuming the above number holds or declines (which it is free to do at any time, BTW) Jim Martin faces Chambliss head-to-head in a December 2nd runoff, where the incumbent’s 3 point first round lead means next to nothing, and......
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This is the most important Congressional race in Alabama for progressive Democrats.  Who would have believed Alabama would have 3 competitive House races this year?  Anyway, Segall has already made an impressive showing, raising over a million dollars to run against a 3 term incumbent.  Somebody please tell me the last time a Democratic challenger raised that kind of money in Alabam......
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I snuck onto my email from work and found that lo and behold I’d been linked to by Andrew Sullivan . So, welcome, Daily Dish readers! Hi! Come on in! Don’t mind the mess! Or the kid clutching the weird pink beeping electro-pet and doing cartwheels in the corner! ETA : Turns out the same post was also linked by Cosmic Variance . (thanks for the tip, Rachel!). So welcome also......
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Tomorrow is election day, and we are all looking forward to a happy outcome, not to mention an end to the seemingly endless campaigning! But we would like to ask your indulgence as we make a last-minute plea. Those of you who are regular readers know that Sarah-Hope and I got married last June, following the California Supreme Court’s decision that it is unconstitutional to deny an entire......
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I know, it’s been a while.  And it may be a while yet-I’m just not feeling the blog thing anymore.  We’ll see…but, for now: Now is the time to donate. Let your support be known.......
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