Strategic Vision polls the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Georgia:
Vernon Jones: 28
Dale Cardwell: 20
Jim Martin: 15
Rand Knight: 11
Josh Lanier: 5
Undecided: 21
(MoE: ±5%)
In a general election match-up, neither Jones, Knight, Cardwell, or Lanier can crack a 30-point gap against Saxby Chambliss (a Martin/Chambliss matchup was not polled, for whatever reason).
Still, it’d be a shame if this nomination was handed to a shady, Bush-voting pol like Jones or a joker like Cardwell — just on the off chance that this race gets interesting.
I’m sure once Martin goes up on the air with ads this will change (at least in the primary), just like with Oregon.
it’s disheartening he doesn’t have a larger bottom line of support, considering he’s the only one to have run statewide before.
i figured it could be a tough primary against that creep jones just because of race & the dekalb base, but i didn’t expect martin to be trailing cardwell.
he should be able to pull it out if he raises at the clip he did in the last few weeks of Q1 (not that jones is a fundraising slouch) – but he’ll need that money against chambliss’s cache.
primary date?
if Jones won. Martin has a lot of money though so I think he can close the gap and win.
Try to ignore the primary as much as possible here, but I have to think that we could’ve gotten some of our top-tier choices in states like Georgia, North Carolina(although this one looks like it’ll be competitive anyway)and Oregon had they known Obama was going to be the nominee.
He seemed to have the youthful charisma that reminded me a little of Scott Kleeb
But It looks like he has a lot of ground to cover
If you think any Dem candidate is going to lose by bigger than a 65-35 point margin in GA you’re crazy. With so many AA’s in GA Saxby probably won’t win by >20 %. Heck we ran a liberal AA female candidate in 2004 and still only lost by about a 58-42% margin.
Will we win? no chance.
But we won’t lose by anywhere near 30% either.
to take a little different stance here; i was involved with democratic politics in rural GA for many years; i am under the sincere belief that if we nominate martin over that lunatic cardwell(that guy is the democratic version of attila the hun) and vernon “threesome” jones; that the democrats have a REAL shot at “sic ’em” saxby in the fall; the ms-01 race should tell us that an economic populism message can work in the south(which i have known and been advocating for many years); with obama at the top of the ticket, you will see a HUGE black turnout in GA, add to this, the rural white type(think childers voter), who is conservative on social issues BUT are approachable to vote their own economic interests,PLUS the ever-increasing role of women at the ballot box(women now comprise around 53% of the electorate)and i think you have a potential for a race on your hands;also, “sic ’em” saxby is NOT well-loved in GA and the current republican legislature just finished one of the most unpopular sessions in its history(thus, voter backlash may come into play); the politics in the south has always been about race and poverty; that still continues to this day; the way for democrats to win in the south has ALWAYS been, split the white vote and take ALL the black vote; i believe MARTIN can do this IF we democrats are smart enough to nominate him
I saw no discussion of Candidate Josh Lanier in this article. Yet, Candidate Lanier has years of experience as a Congressional staffer in Washington. Plus, Candidate Lanier not only supports clean elections, but is using his campaign as a model for such. That’s right. Josh Lanier accepts contributions from individuals, only, and will not accept contributions over $100.00 from any one contributer. In fact, Josh Lanier is encouraging contributions of no more than $5.00 from any one contributer.
Also, Josh Lanier advocates ending the occupation of Iraq, while encouraging an international effort to stabilize the country and the region. And, Candidate Lanier supports single-payer, universal health care, as well.
Josh Lanier is a Vietnam Veteran, and opposes torture, period.
Go Josh!
http://www.joshlanier.com
Oh, how low can we go?
As long as the money game is THE game, Georgia politics will be bought; causing Georgia politicians to sell out completely.
It has to stop, sometime. So, why not stop it now?
Now that we have the Internet.
The Internet has significantly changed the political scene within the past ten years, and it will continue to change the landscape of politics; soon rendering the money campaigns obsolete!
To help with that change, Josh Lanier will soon be launching the new Personal Command Center, an inter-active Internet community, from his “un-campaign” website.
You may check for it by visiting http://www.joshlanier.com.