Yet another look at those U.S. Senate primary numbers.

Dick Pettys writes in InsiderAdvantage Georgia:

[T]here is a gap of 181,654 votes between the number of Georgians who voted for John McCain and the number who voted for Chambliss, a drop off of 8.9 percent.

The falloff was only about half that for Martin, who got 86,718 fewer votes than Obama – a decline of 4.7 percent.

In Chambliss’ case, had he gotten as many votes as McCain in Cobb and Gwinnett, two big hotbeds of Republican fervor, there would be no runoff.