GA-Sen: RNC drops $2 million, Obama cuts radio ad

With the polling showing the numbers in the Georgia Senate race essentially unchanged from what we've seen over the last few months, turnout is absolutely essential for the December 2 runoff election.

This might be the most important election we'll see until November 2010. It almost certainly will represent the greatest opportunity for progressives during that time, to replace one of the very worst Senators in the game today with an actual progressive, the most progressive candidate to run statewide in Georgia in years, Democrat Jim Martin.

The hits keep coming for Republican incumbemt Saxby Chambliss: the latest news is that organized labor is hammering Chambliss over his conduct in the Imperial Sugar case:

Labor Leaders now want U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss to stop trying to quash a subpoena related to the Imperial Sugar Explosion.

Savannah Attorney Mark Tate, who represents several families, wants to depose Chambliss related to lawsuits stemming from the deadly event. The AFL-CIO, which supports Chambliss' political opponent, Democrat Jim Martin, says it wants to know why Chambliss won't cooperate.        
 
"How is it that a U.S. Senator can not do everything in his power to seek the truth and bring those at fault to justice?  It's very simple, Senator Chambliss show up and answer the subpoena and help us find out what happened," called out AFL-CIO member Stewart Acuff.

Martin and the DSCC are being badly outspent in Georgia - the RNC just dropped a $2 million bomb in the state:

Sen. John Ensign said Wednesday that the Republican National Committee (RNC) has transferred $2 million earmarked for the Senate runoff in Georgia to the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which was $4 million in debt after Election Day.

The Nevada Republican said the NRSC ended the cycle in twice as much debt as he would have liked, but that the decision to press further was made after consulting his potential successors.

But as the RNC goes in with money, the AFL-CIO is going in with manpower, attempting to prov that there's no substitute for a good field operation:

The national AFL-CIO is sending up to 2,500 volunteers to Georgia to help Democrat Jim Martin in the U.S. Senate runoff against Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss.

The union organization said it will have 10,000 volunteers working the state over the next two weekends. About three-quarters will be from Georgia, spokeswoman Andrea Gage said Thursday.
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Ray puts the union vote in Georgia at 325,000. Not an overwhelming number, but a low turnout on Dec. 2 could give it greater impact.

The storm of union activity is to include 550,000 work site flyers, 600,000 phone calls, 610,000 mailings, and knocks on 225,000 doors.

Barack Obama has cut a radio ad for Jim Martin, but has yet to use his formidable email list to raise funds as Martin gets outspent. Here's the ad:

One very useful thing the Obama folks have done for Martin is this: you ca use MyBarackObama.com as a phonebanking resource, a resource which could potentially be invaluable for Martin.

This is going to be a race won on turnout, and for that reason, every phone call you make and every dollar you donate could have a profound effect.

There's nothing worse than waking up the morning after a close election feeling we could have done more.

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