"Georgia Senate race tests Obama; Democrats had asked for more visible support" by Sasha Issenberg, Globe Staff | December 2, 2008
ATLANTA - .... The election has a far more urgent meaning: a victory here - along with one in Minnesota, where the votes in a disputed race are being recounted - would give them 60 members of the Senate, a supermajority that could block a Republican filibuster....
One reason Chambliss failed to clear the 50 percent threshold, local analysts say, was that many Georgia Republicans voted for a Libertarian candidate to protest the incumbent's support for an immigration reform compromise and a financial services bailout. --more--"
Then again, knowing them, probably not!!
