Chambliss goes pink
October 8, 2008 at 11:23 pm by Ken Edelstein in NewsAfter appearing as a safe Republican seat for most of the campaign season, Georgia’s U.S. Senate race has joined a list of three other contests that lean Republican but could be vulnerable to a Democratic upset, according to pollster.com.
The switch comes on the heals of today’s Rasmussen poll, which found Democrat Jim Martin trailing incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss by just 6 percentage points. A running average on pollster.com now places Chambliss at 48.3 percent and Martin at 41.7 percent, well within striking difference if Democratic turnout is a lot stronger than the GOP’s.
Pollster.com now projects Democrats to hold at least 54 seats in the next Congress, while also caucusing with two independents. Races in Alaska, Minnesota and Oregon are considered tossups. If those seats went Democratic, the party would need an upset in any of the four Republican leaning (or “pink”) contests to gain a filibuster-proof, 60-member majority. Those contests are in Kentucky, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia.
You can view the Senate projections by using the “Map Chooser” dropdown menu on the pollster.com page.
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