Hang Right Politics

Posted by COgirl on October 30th, 2006 in Congress, Election, Voting

Reader Bruce. . .formerly dukeblondie wrote a comment in my House Races post about Georgia districts 8 and 12 possibly being in play for the GOP. These two seats would be pickups from incumbent Dems. I’ve been doing a little research and here’s what I’ve learned.

District 12

With just over a week to go before Election Day, the match-up between U.S. Rep. John Barrow, D-Savannah, and former Congressmen Max Burns remains extremely tight, according to poll results announced Friday.

The latest survey in the 12th District congressional race shows Barrow with a slight edge over Burns – 42 percent to 39 percent – among voters who say they will cast ballots on Nov. 7.

But considering that the margin of error is 6 percentage points, the poll indicates the two candidates are running neck and neck. A high number of respondents – 19 percent – indicated they remain undecided. . . .

Last year, the Georgia Legislature redrew the district that Burns represented for a term before narrowly losing his seat to Barrow in 2004. This time, Barrow is running without the benefit of having his Democratic-leaning hometown of Athens included. The city was dropped in favor of several new rural counties being added.

The source of that information is Savannah Morning News. Interesting that the MSM chooses not to talk about that race.

Here’s some info on the 8th Congressional district from Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.

District 8

With the district’s boundaries redrawn by the state Legislature last year, the new 8th District now leans more Republican than [ed. incumbent Dem. Jim] Marshall’s old 3rd District. The 8th runs from Newton County southeast of Atlanta to Colquitt County near the Florida state line. Its largest city is Macon, where Marshall was mayor in the late 1990s and is expected to get some of his strongest support. . .

[ed. Mac] Collins, served in Congress from 1992 to 2004 and would likely be in a stronger position this year had he not decided to run for the Senate in 2004. He lost badly in the Republican primary to now-Sen. Johnny Isakson – getting just 20 percent of the vote – and has spent the past two years working to return to Washington.

No polling data was provided and the newspaper article projects that Marshall will hold on. But Bruce is correct, this could be a pickup.

Like I’ve written before, the more you look at the individual races, the more confident you will feel that the House is NOT lost. Somebody better let Pelosi’s interior decorator know.

Georgia voters in these districts, turn out and support the GOP.

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