In the all republican election to fill Charlie norwoods seat, Paul Broun has an oh so slim lead over whitehead, Norwood’s heir apparent. Broun managed to win 90% of Clark county, the fighting tenth’s democratic stronghold. In the first special election held on June 19th (oh discordia!) Broun took a good chunk or Clarke away from democrat Marlow. While Broun was probably able to 90% because of support from democrats as the lesser of two evils and support from moderate republicans, it shows there might be a window. It might be tough if he gets a base in Clarke, but if we can get a stronger candidate in ’08, and can make the race a clear republican versus democrat thing, we can take back Clarke county. If Broun turns out to be too liberal for the tenth, then there might be a republican primary. In such an event, with Broun either defeated by a more conservative republican, or forced to the right, we could win.
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Broun is not a moderate.
is not likely to be an artifact of Liberal v. conservative wars. Or GOP v. Dem wars. From what I can tell what happened was Whitehead ran a stupid thoughtless campaign, and like GOPers everywhere, the Whitehead campaign fell into the mistake of demonizing urban areas with liberal constituencies like Athens, Georgia, which promptly rewarded Whitehead by landsliding for Broun. So a combination of bad tactics and regional rivalries unique to the district upended Whitehead and allowed Broun to slip into Congress. I remain skeptical that ideology drove the voting outcome in this race, as it truly was an “all politics are local” type race, a rare district indeed in the current election cycle.