GA-Sen: Atlanta Journal-Constitution endorses Jim Martin (again)

It being runoff season in Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (the largest paper in the state, and the largest in the South outside of Texas) has deemed it importance to restate an endorsement they already made once in Georgia's Senate race.

In fact, their endorsement is an impassioned plea on Martin's behalf.

Martin, the Democrat, has been a fighter for the little guy throughout his life, and he’s proved effective in that role. He served his country in the U.S. Army in Vietnam and as a state legislator, lawyer and head of the state Department of Human Resources. Throughout his public life he has been known as a workhorse, not a showhorse, someone whose first concern was getting the job done well rather than trying to get the credit.

In fact, Martin was so well-respected for his competence and ability to work across party lines that when Gov. Sonny Perdue became the state’s first Republican governor in a century, he asked Martin to remain as head of the state Department of Human Services.

And how about Saxby? Well, suffice it to say that he is not sticking up for the same people as Martin, though he does stick up for some people:

Time and again, on issue after issue, Chambliss has taken the side of the powerful and influential over those of the taxpayer and general citizen. His performance this year at a Senate hearing, in which he took the side of corporate management by browbeating a safety whistle-blower at a Savannah sugar mill, has become the stuff of legend. (A few months earlier, an explosion at the plant had killed 14 workers.)

That certainly sounds like our Saxby.

As they have for several months, the polls show the race extremely tight:

Rasmussen. 11/18. Likely voters. MoE 4%

Chambliss (R) 50
Martin (D) 46

This race has been more or less in a holding pattern since the beginning of October; turnout is essential.

And every dollar and every phone call counts.

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