red-state Georgia may go blue thanks to... Bob Barr!

[npincus]

Can we all give Bob a hand? :applause:

Go Bob, go! :rofl:




http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/obamas_ceos.html

Republican strategists now are privately conceding that the GOP could lose Georgia's 15 presidential electors for the first time since 1992 because of Bob Barr's ballot position as the Libertarian Party presidential candidate.

The most recent Georgia survey by the polling firm InsiderAdvantage, conducted July 2, shows 46 percent for Sen. John McCain, 44 percent for Sen. Barack Obama and 4 percent for Barr. George W. Bush, who carried all 11 states of the old Confederacy in both 2000 and 2004, had 58 percent of Georgia's vote in the last election.

Third party presidential candidates almost always run more poorly in the actual election than their showing in the polls, but Barr as a former Republican congressman from Georgia might sustain support in his home state. He already has slipped a little in Georgia, based on his 5.6 percent standing in the June 19 InsiderAdvantage poll, when McCain had a lead of 1.6 percentage points.

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[Kolesar]

1. "Liberty for America" - Does Bob Barr speak for we activists who had our civil rights violated

...when trying to stop the war or when trying to get Senator Kerry elected as president?

[NightWatcher]

2. that is if Diebold doesnt help steal it again as they did for Chamblis over Cleland

[unapatriciated]

4. I so want to see that guy defeated.

We will be voting against him in November.

Georgia is not big on letting you know when and where to vote. If we hadn't got an e-mail from the Obama campaign reminding us to vote in the primaries July 15th, we would have missed it. We were the 53rd and 54th persons voting in our precinct at 1:30 pm (that's sad).

We moved here a little over a year ago from California and are used to getting voter pamphlets in the mail, with a lot of info on the candidates and issues on the ballot. I think the lack of information tends to keep the poor and lower income voters from the polls. That is one thing the Obama campaign is working on.....educationg the voters and getting them involved and that's a good thing.

[unapatriciated]

3. They didn't poll so...

you can count two more votes for Obama in Georgia.
My hubby and I are working to turn our new home blue.

We don't want more of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXRlG_6Bk-8

I have only seen one or two McCain bumper stickers that is a good sign.

[Youphemism]

5. I support the "What About Bob?" campaign...

Go Bob, go!

In the words of P.D. Eastman, he really is "A red dog on a blue tree."

[vaberella]

6. I thought this was a given since the Primaries and nothing to do with Barr..

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Obama actually win Georgia during the primaries?! Figured it would be natural for him to win Georgia during the GE. Secondly, my family and friends in Georgia all tell me that McCain is basically like the boogie-man for Georgians they just really dislike the guy so all in all a lot of them would be voting Obama. My friend's family is 100% Repub or were (he's not) and he said they all voted Obama (some he would even call highly prejudiced).

[Benhurst]

8. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Obama actually win Georgia during the primaries?

Figured it would be natural for him to win Georgia during the GE."

Yeah, he won the DEMOCRATIC primary, all right; but that hardly guarantees a win in the general election.

Barr might make the difference,though, assuming the election isn't stolen, which is a mighty big assumption.

[rox63]

7. Go Bob Barr!

If he can make it to at least 6%, Georgia could flip to blue. :)

[Awsi Dooger]

9. Not going to happen

Literally every cycle I've been on DU we get touted on opportunity in Georgia, several times. Then splat. It's moving right more than any state.

This is another example of the betting markets not being fooled. GOP trading price is north of 80 on Intrade.

[Quixote1818]

11. We still need to try. Its worth a shot and why not make McCain spend $ there?

Not to mention, Bill Clinton won there and I am sure he didn't get 98% of the black vote not to mention all the new black voters Obama will bring into the system. Even if we can't take Georgia perhaps we can win a bunch of local elections there?

[Quixote1818]

10. Maybe it's time for a little Operation Chaos of our own? Give $ to Bob Barr? nt

[aikoaiko]

12. GA is in play.....

Obama's endorsement of Blue Dog John Barrow in Savannah will help him too.