Saxby Chambliss has announced that he is retiring from the Senate

[beachmom]

96. I think you should trust someone who actually lives here.

Mass. ain't Georgia. It's kind of like Iraq here in that your ethnic background determines who you vote for (a few choice white liberals in Atlanta metro isn't going to make much of a difference). And I have not seen any Dem or otherwise who is charismatic here. Once we lost the governorship, it has been over for the Democratic party statewide. The Party was always run within the Governorship, for which Dems ALWAYS held it for a hundred years. Now that the southern strategy is complete here, the Dem party has become a ghost of its former self. Only a couple of blue dog Dems left, and they're always endangered to be defeated every two years. In general, all our significant Democrats in this state are African American, and because of the backwards way white voters view things here, they will never win statewide. Barack Obama did show that this state is within reach in about a generation, but that kind of voter turnout doesn't show up during midterm elections.

The most powerful Democrat in the state is the Atlanta mayor, and it's only because he can get through to the WH. So all the Republicans, including Chambliss, would come crawling to Reed to make sure our state was taken care of by the federal gov. That does not translate into Reed winning statewide.

That is why I find the "independent" streak in MA in voting in Brown so frustrating. There is no independent streak like that here. Only Republicans are going to win statewide here until Latino voters grow to be a bigger proportion of the electorate.

No don't give up, but let's be realistic here. This is a red state.