Sure, it's great to blame Barack Obama for Jim Martin's loss. After all, Barack Obama totally won the state of Georgia in the general election. And a mere word from the man who clearly, as a black guy, has total control over all African-American population, would totally have turned out the additional 350,000 or so African-American voters necessary to put Jim Martin over the top.
Plus, he's the president-elect. We gotta blame him!
However, as important as blaming Obama is, I think there's a more likely reason for Saxby Chambliss' victory:
He has a way with the ladies
Yes, that's right. Saxby Chambliss, the Senior Senator from the great State of Georgia, who was most notorious for being a draft dodger who ran a commercial in 2002 morphing disabled Vietnam Veteran Max Cleland's face into that of Osama bin Laden, has done it again.
Only this time, he may have the egg on his own face.
His campaign paid good money to broadcast this.
Anyway, I just had to diary this after seeing it on The Daily Show.