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DEL.ICIO.USRasmussen: Chambliss shouldn’t pay attention to those other polls, but Perdue tanks on the gas shortage
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rasmussen Reports has just posted its October analysis of the U.S. Senate race in Georgia. It offers some needed solace to U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss.
Despite other polls that show Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin neck-and-neck, Rasmussen says “the U.S. Senate race in Georgia remains relatively unchanged this month.”
The polling firm puts Chambliss at 50 percent, and Martin at 44 percent — roughly the same distance that Rasmussen measurements have put the pair for months.
Rasmussen gives Chambliss a 70 percent chance of victory, but says Martin does have a lead among female voters, which could be important.
That said, the real news comes from Rasmussen’s polling on the post-Hurricane Ike gas shortage in Georgia:
— A majority of 61 percent said they had personally waited in line for gas, and 71 percent they’ve had to curtail their driving.
— Only 26 percent said Gov. Sonny Perdue — who was in Europe on a trade mission during much of the crisis — did a good or excellent job handling the shortage, while 37 percent said he did a poor job.
— On the other hand, it’s not exactly clear what people wanted the governor to do. Nearly half were opposed to an odd-even rationing system, while 30 percent favored it. More than half (52 percent) opposed limits on gasoline purchases, while 34 percent said it was a good idea.
— Overall, Perdue’s job approval rating is down to 39 percent, 10 points lower than a month ago.
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By Anonymous
October 9, 2008 2:23 AM | Link to this
I’m a republican but I am voting for Jim Martin. Not because I really care for Martin any, but because sellout Saxby Shameless voted for the bailout.
By GA Values
October 9, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this
Saxby has my vote. Go Saxby!!!!!!
By Kane
October 11, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this
Saxby Chambliss has been such a disappointment. He says one thing back home, then he says something altogether different when he’s in Washington. Doesn’t he know that we have C-SPAN?
By Will Jones
October 11, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this
Vietnam provided the litmus test for Saxby and the entire generation.
Aware of the crime being perpetrated against the People? Proudly, boldly, fight and protest an illegal war, dodge the draft, or go to Canada, and figure out how treason’s faction, serving the Roman Anti-Christ with the Rockefeller/Bush Fifth Column, killed John Kennedy to send us there.
Or, ignorant and sheltered, indoctrinated as a “true believer,” unaware of the corrupt government in Washington? Take the Oath, suit up and go where the government and karma sent you.
Either path was honorable. Saxby, Bush, and Cheney took neither and serve the Anti-Christ which sent us there to this day…the same faction which promotes illegal immigration, crashed the Internet Revolution, prints fiat money, employs welfare fascism to bailout Wall Street, and committed 9/11 to send us to false war for heroin and oil.
America is in a deep hole, we must first stop digging. Martin/Obama is a small step in the right direction.
Jeffersonian Exegesis
By AmVet
October 11, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this
Our senior senator is a total embarrassment.
And a Bush administration enabler and apologist.
Not to mention the most cravenly opportunistic and repugnant (Ask John McCain and Chuck Hagel) politician ever produced by a state that has a long history of doing such.