At least Deal is good on immigration. He always sponsored good legislation and we need someone in Georgia who will prioritize this issue. Georgia has recently become one of the fastest growing illegal immigration hubs.

turn people off. Handel was too overly aggressive with Deal and other candidates int he primary. Also Handel seemed to think that Metro ATL alone can deliver the runoff for her. Whereas, Deal traveled all around the state and asked for votes. Deal won because he worked the hardest in the runoff. That is why undecideds trended strongly for Deal. Congrats to Deal.

However, I fear that Deal’s weak showing the Metro ATL will play to Roy Barnes’s advantage in the Metro ATL.

Now we MUST have a unified front. We can’t afford to give the State of Georgia over to the Democrats. That would be an act which could take decades to recover from.

While I prefer to see the most conservative candidate get elected, that didn’t happen this time. Now Deal is the most conservative person in the race. It’s time for all of us to put our support behind him.

http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2010/08/11/handel-concedes-in-republican-runoff-for-governor/

Barnes this morning in the AJC pledging not to run a negative campaign.
Pretty easy pledge when the Atlanta Constitution and Urinal will do it for him.

Wondering when the 10 page spread on the ethics charges against Deal will appear in the AJC.
I’m betting Sunday, October 23rd.

I echo your sentiments-

I might add that the eternal campaign for GA9 also seemed to end last night as Congressman Tom Graves won his GOP primary runoff. 4 races in 4 months? The GE in November should be a coast for him.

Erick,

Does Mike Crane have a shot against David “don’t catch me painting swastikas on my own buildings” Scott ?

Sabato talks how Barnes’s has a huge advantage in Metro ATL. But aren’t the ATL suburbs very GOP? After all, much of the ATL suburbs voted Barnes out in 2002.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38508

Seems kind of dumb to me to take a chance at ticking off Palin fans or Handel supporters over this. He didn’t seem to mind that Gingrich (ok he’s a Georgian) or Huckabee backed Deal.

I say this while I plug my nose but he’s still a “lesser evil that Barnes”

And yes, I wil show up to vote.

The GA GOP is all riled up, and now it only has him to pick on.

Heh.

Although I vote in Florida, all of my family members in Georgia voted for Handel. We must unite, as this will be the first Georgia redistricting with a Republican governor since reconstruction. Karen Handel can help a lot with the Atlanta area vote. As we all know Barnes is just a shill for Obambi.Let´s make sure that Nathan is the REAL DEAL come November.

Most of my friends are either Republicans or conservative independent types and already this morning the conservative independent types are on my facebook account saying they will vote for Barnes because of Deal’s ethical issues and his comments about needing to have a college degree to be governor.

In the end, I blame Handel’s general election strategy for this loss. I mentioned this in another thread, but I think she could have left Johnson out (simply ignored him) of her attacks in the general and then she would have had a chance to split his voters or get his endorsement and hence have a chance to win the primary.

Now that we have Deal, he will have our support but I am worried about the ethics allegations.

I think that Deal is going to have to take some very strong stands on illegal immigration to back Barnes into a corner. He also needs to take on size of government as that is something else that resonates with people.

I’d say that Barnes probably starts at +5 when the first polls come out.

I jumped to the bottom of this post so there may be other folks who have commented on Handel’s classy concession via email to her supporters.

If not, let me reiterate Karen Handel’s main message in this concession: Nathan Deal is not the enemy. Roy Barnes is the enemy.

Remember, the Govenor’s race is very important to republican(and dems) due to upcoming redistricting issues. Kick your neighbor in the*** tell ‘em to get out there and vote for the REPUBLICAN. Nose plugs optional

Why isn’t it Handel in Georgia & Byrne in Alabama? I do not blame it all on candidates’ campaign efforts. Something else is going on.

In Georgia the Cobb County Association of Educators has endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate Nathan Deal. The Cobb County Association of Educators represents 3,000 teachers.

http://www.dealforgovernor.com/snews.php?n=42

In Alabama the Alabama Education Association believe they turned out 50,000 votes for Bentley. Perry said the teachers union identified 1,500 members locally who were committed to voting for Bentley, although he said he could not say how many already planned to vote in the Republican race.

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/07/aea_officials_believe_they_tur.html

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

Now that the runoff campaign for Karen is over , we’ll get new bumper stickers and yard signs. Don’t forget the blue and white Scott Signs.
The drumbeat has to be steady and fervent for conservative, State Representative <a href=Austin Scott to unseat the clever Congressman Jim Marshall (D-8).

Let the positive editorials, blogs, and good money flow!!!!
Austin Scott for Congress
http://www.scottforga.com/

So this is sad. Anyone know which house district she lives in? Maybe she could run in 2012? Congrats to Deal, time to beat Barnes!

After all, He does look like a skier. Probalby nothing to it.

Today on a press conference, reporters asked Gibbs about the GA Gov race. Robert Gibbs said Deal has ethics issues. Its time for GOP unity.

might as well start “Dealing” with “King Roy” again in 2010!