As expected, Burns announces he will challenge Barrow in 12th Congressional District.
Republican Max Burns will try next year to win back the 12th Congressional District seat he lost to Democrat John Barrow in 2004.
Like the old 12th, the new one takes in most of Savannah and includes Burns' home town of Sylvania.
[T]he new district has a slightly larger black population - generally regarded as an indicator of Democratic voting strength - than the old 12th.
[But] Republican candidates, such as President Bush, ran about 3 percentage points stronger last year [in the new 12th] than in the old 12th.
Burns upset the heavily favored Charles Walker Jr. in 2002 in the first election in the old 12th, a district the then Democrat-dominated General Assembly crafted to favor one of their own.
But last fall, he lost to Barrow by about 8,000 votes or 4 percentage points in one of the most expensive and hardest-fought campaigns in the country.
(6-1-05 article by Larry Peterson in the Savannah Morning News.)
Like the old 12th, the new one takes in most of Savannah and includes Burns' home town of Sylvania.
[T]he new district has a slightly larger black population - generally regarded as an indicator of Democratic voting strength - than the old 12th.
[But] Republican candidates, such as President Bush, ran about 3 percentage points stronger last year [in the new 12th] than in the old 12th.
Burns upset the heavily favored Charles Walker Jr. in 2002 in the first election in the old 12th, a district the then Democrat-dominated General Assembly crafted to favor one of their own.
But last fall, he lost to Barrow by about 8,000 votes or 4 percentage points in one of the most expensive and hardest-fought campaigns in the country.
(6-1-05 article by Larry Peterson in the Savannah Morning News.)
posted by Sid Cottingham | 5:05 AM
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and we are going to win, and justin lewis knows it.
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