again, less than a fifth of the vote is in at this point. heading into tonight s polling tonight s voting david perdue had been leading in the polls. what happens here is if the there will be a run-off if nobody clears 50% of the vote and that run-off will happen in july. in terms of the general election and who will win that senate seat in the end the polling ahead of tonight s primary showed the democrat michelle nunn polling even or ahead of every single one of the republican potential candidates who is in that primary. that, of course, is hypothetical polling. the republicans had seven people in the running, those poll numbers may shift one way or the other once the picture gets more clear. the again, less than a fifth of the vote in so far in georgia and that is going to be a f fascinating one to watch. the big, wide open seat in georgia, there is going to be a
run-off. and it s all very exciting. what s exciting, though, rate now about georgia, is that there has been legitimate suspense both in terms of tonight s primary and looking ahead to the general in thames of what s going to happen with that senate seat, the saxby chambliss seat wasn t supposed to be like this. the republican math on their efforts nationwide to take back the senate, all the republican math to do that assumes that hold i holding on to that saxby chambliss senate seat was going to be a no problem proposition for the republican party. when you look at what s going on in georgia, though, much more interesting, much more open question than that. also tonight in georgia there s been some rare suspense on the democratic side of things. and the story there is sort of dramatic enough i m surprised it hasn t had more national attenti attention. we re all wired now to look for suspense in contested elections among republicans. we re just not expecting that from democrats. in geo
dollar? i don t think money will decide this race. a lot of national money on the democratic side going into this thing. i think this 30 days how does she handle the spotlight in the first 30 days, how does she handle the attacks that will come? is she still tied with mcconnell after the first month or two of this jep election? if she is, i think it is big trouble for mcconnell. this thing means it s a referendum on him. in terms of the other big, high-profile race tonight, georgia, seven republican candidates vying for that chance to stand up for saxby chambliss seat. what do you see happening there tonight? well, look, the washington republ republican crowd is already happy. they don t mind any of the top three that are sitting out. they are relieved they don t have paul broun and phil gingrey. jack kingston more of a mainstream conservative rather than a tea party guy. even karen handel who i think still look, we have a lot of votes that haven t been counted. you can t even l
on election day in november 2000, a new sheriff was elected in dekalb county, georgia. five weeks after that new sheriff was elected, before he was even sworn in, the man who had just been elected sheriff walked outside his house and was shot 12 times and he died at the scene. december 2000. the man who he had beaten in the election to become the sheriff the month before was convicted of ordering that assassination as a hit. the previous sheriff who, again, lost his seat as sheriff of dekalb county and then was convicted of ordering the hit on the guy who beat him, that guy is now in prison doing a life sentence. the man who came in to run that sheriff s office after that nightmare played out and the sheriff elect got assassinated, the man who came in to take over and clean up in 2000, named tom brown. and former dekalb county sheriff tom brown is the guy who tonight mounted a democratic party challenge, the rarest of all things, a contested democratic
you getting stds but, again, 19% in, less than a fifth of the vote. extrapolate at your peril. the reason the tenth district and the 11th district in georgia have so many people running is because those are two of the three house seats in georgia where the sitting republican member of congress has given up that job in order to run for senate. the senate race in georgia is settled on the democratic side. michelle nunn will be the nominee for united states senate on the democratic side in georgia. on the republican side it honestly has been a very exciting race. there are seven republicans vying to be the nominee for senate the from the republican party in georgia including those three currently serving members of the house who had to give up their seats in order to compete in this race tonight. it has been a wild ride of a race. in terms of what we know about the u.s. senate primary in georgia we have 18% of precincts reporting. right the now jack kingston out ahead. david perdue in sec