aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Canary update

Still no definite word on my guys:

GEORGIA:

As the rest of the nation made a statement by putting more Democrats in Washington, Georgia came close to making its own by darn near ousting two. Jim Marshall and John Barrow barely led as the final precincts were counted, and the margins were so tight that automatic recounts would be triggered. If Marshall or Barrow end up losing, they would have the distinction of being the only Georgia Democrats bounced from Congress.

As I understand it if one of them looses he will become the only incumbent Democrat House member to lose anywhere in the nation.

Do none of the national Dems or high-profile liberal bloggers give a hoot? I read a lot of blogs, a lot of news sources, I don’t understand that I’m seeing nothing about these races.

Someone clue me in please if I’m missing something but it looks to me to be a measure of just how thoroughly written off Georgia is by party strategists; and that doesn’t speak well for a party that wants to represent all 50 states.

Best I can tell Marshall’s won but Collins won’t concede; and it looks like Barrow’s 1,000 vote lead triggers an automatic recount.

Let’s please remember that BOTH of these districts were redistricted for Republican advantage and had repeated visits by the popular governor and unpopular president.

Since so few of us are talking about these guys, please see also: By a hair, My birds are (not yet) dead! and Two canaries in a Georgia coal mine.