SO.... what happened?

[groundloop]

I'm kind of scratching my head wondering what happened yesterday. I'd been seeing polls showing Michelle Nunn either even with Perdue or up by a few points for quite a while, and yet the election results were nowhere close. I'm guessing the ads associating Michelle with the evil black man got the goper base very fired up and out to the polls. Anyone have any insight?

[Dawgs]

1. Not sure because we were also seeing close exit polls.

And turnout seemed to be pretty good.

Don't know.

[upaloopa]

2. We answered the polls but didn't vote

[hueymahl]

3. If I had to guess

Zell Miller was a big part of Carter's loss. Him supporting Deal and calling him the "savior" of the Hope scholarship swayed a lot of undecideds, many of which only paid attention at the very end. Also, all the libertertarian votes appeared to go back home to the republican party because they did not want to "waste" their protest vote.

On the Michelle Nunn side, I can't tell you how many liberal-mined women said they just did not like her. Maybe they did not bother to vote.

Don't really know. Frustrating to watch. But I still think this may be the dying gasp of hard-core republican control. Things ARE changing, even if it is not as fast as we wish.

[Phentex]

4. one white male republican was reelected, another white male republican...

Was voted in to replace a white male republican.