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DOES GEORGIA MATTER?
When it comes to presidential campaigns,
Georgia doesn't exactly qualify as a battleground
state. If candidates would visit the state at all,
they would try to extract as many contributions
as they could in the shortest period of time and
hop on the first available plane out of Hartsfield
Airport. There are signs this time around, how
ever, that perhaps Georgia is going to get a little
love. Candidates have been making more trips
to the state and doing more than just asking
people to sign checks with lots of zeros written
on them.
Democratic candidate John Edwards, for
example, showed up in Macon on a recent
Saturday night and met with some sup
porters at a local law office to reassure
them that he's really one of them.
"I grew up eating fried chicken for
dinner, going to Friday night high
school football games, going to
church on Sunday morning, Sunday
night, Wednesday night," Edwards
was quoted by the Macon Telegraph.
Edwards also attended a fundraiser
sponsored by political heavyweights
Roy Barnes, House Minority Leader
DuBose Porter (D-Dublin), and attorneys
Jim Butler, Chuck Byrd and Joel Wooten.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, a Republican
presidential contender who's been slipping in
the polls, visited the state capitol a few weeks
ago and spent much of the day chatting with Lt.
Gov. Casey Cagle and Gov. Sonny Perdue, as welt
as meeting with the Senate Republican caucus
to solicit their support. Former New York mayor
Rudy Giuliani, another GOP contender, was at the
capitol last week, where he also paid a visit to
Perdue to talk about the campaign. (Perdue is
anxious for somebody—anybody—to pick him as
a vice presidential running mate.)
The biggest campaign event so far was the
rally held Apr. 14 by Democratic candidate
Barack Obama at a park in the middle of the
Georgia Tech campus. Even with the threat of
rain, Obama attracted a cheering crowd of sev
eral thousand (the high-end estimate was that
20,000 attended). The Illinois senator wasn't
doing it for the money. He flew to Atlanta for a
fundraiser last month and left with more than
$500,000 in campaign cash, but also promised
that he'd come back for a real campaign event.
In a 37-minute speech that was interrupted
dozens of times by applause from the enthusi
astic crowd, Obama cracked the whip hard on
President George W. Bush and the way he's con
ducted the unpopular war in Iraq. "We know that
we are in the midst of a war that should have
never been authorized, it should have never been
waged," Obama roared. The situation in Iraq,
Obama said, "is about an administration that
is trying to preserve its own political viability.
It is about stubbornness and obstinacy, and we
have to keep on ratcheting up the pressure each
and every day, each and every week, to tell the
president it is time to change course, it is
time for us to start bringing our combat
troops home from Iraq."
"Enough is enough," he said. "It
is time for us to turn the page on
Iraq, right now. It can be done."
"The point of this rally is not to
raise money," said Kirk Dornbusch,
an Atlanta investment adviser and
member of Obama's national finance
committee. "After this event, we’ll
have 50,000 volunteers for Georgia.
We'll have our 'Obaminators.' We'll have
50,000 people ready to help us."
Why all the sudden interest in Georgia? It
could be because we're one of more than 20
states that will hold a presidential preference
primary on Feb. 5 next year. Recent polls indi
cate that Obama, Edwards and Hillary Clinton
are all running within a few points of each other
among Georgia Democrats, so the state could
help determine whicn of them emerges as the
frontrunner after that national primary. Over on
the Republican side, where no contender appears
to be causing much excitement yet among GOP
activists, Georgia is enough of a prize that we're
already seeing the major candidates waltzing
through here 10 months before primary day. The
state is very much up for grabs. Bottom line, it
sounds like a real presidential campaign might
actually be conducted here—something we
haven't seen in a long time.
Tom Crawford
Tom Crawford is the editor of Capitol Impact's Georgia
Report, an Internet news site at www.ciclt.net/garpt that
covers government and politics in Georgia.
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