Georgia chooses a Senator (finally)
Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss has been declared the victor in a runoff Senate race in Georgia.
“There’s this picture of this out-of-place, older white man with these two rappers, basically saying go out and vote. I think every young person looks at that and says: I know this isn’t real. This guy doesn’t know the difference between a T.I. tune and a Ludacris tune.” ?Georgia Public Radio news director Susanna Capolouto on Jim Martin’s failed Senate race.
The state has been subjected to non-stop campaigning in the weeks since the original election, with a cavalcade of political superstars including everyone from Sarah Palin to rapper Ludacris parading through the state to help get out the vote. Susanna Capelouto of Georgia Public Broadcasting joins The Takeaway to do a post-mortem.
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