Congressman Nathan Deal came on strong at the Cobb County GOP 4th of July BBQ straw poll yesterday coming out on top by nine votes. Deal received 120 votes (28%) with Oxendine second at 111 votes (26%) followed by Handel with 99 votes (23%), Johnson with 43 votes (10%), Scott with 35 votes (8%) and finally McBerry with 14 votes (3%).
Harris Blackwood, spokesman for Nathan Deal’s campaign for Governor, helped to elevate the level of discourse in the campaign by noting to the AJC that Deal’s victory was proof that, “cream rises to the top.”
Other winners according to my sources were:
- Black for Agriculture Commissioner
- Purcell for Insurance Commissioner
- Kemp for Secretary of State
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It could mean a turning point in the campaign where the war between the Oxendine and Handel camps allows another candidate to break through.
Either that or Erick’s indisputable proof will now show it wasn’t a computer in the Sloppy Floyd Building that edited Handel’s Wikipedia, but now it is a computer traced to Nathan Deal’s Congressional office in Gainesville.
So this race here we have for Governor is interesting.
You’ve got two Democrats turned Republican career politicians running against life long Republican Karen Handel in the main event. The other candidates aren’t really in the race so they aren’t worth mentioning. Eric Johnson deserves an honorable mention for good service to Georgia, but he should have never gotten out of the LT. GOV race.
The Ox seems to be taking on water. Not to mention his stick his finger in the wind political skills. Deal seems to be the new guy on the block so people are curious. But the winner for the long haul is Karen Handel. Remember, back when Roy Barnes was a back bencher Senate Democrat, his leader was Nathan Deal. Then ol’ Nathan went to Washington and has voted for ever pork barrelled high spending budget that ever came his way.
It’s still hard to believe that we’ve got a year of this before the primary… If cream rises to the top, I’d prefer my candidate not rise just yet to the top because it’s a LONG race…
“The other candidates are in the race so they aren’t worth mentioning.”
I will never get comments like these. I read Peach Pundit day after day, and I see all of these so called “pundits” screaming and wailing away about how we need new blood, and how the same old Republican guard is what is screwing our country. Yet here we go again with the “front runners” of this race being the status quo Republicans.
Nathan Deal has been apart of a Republican Congress who helped banish our party from the Federal scene. He along with his coward Republican comrads share just as much blame if not more blame for putting our Country in this dangerous predicament that we are currently in. IF they could have done one thing right during their tenure in charge of BOTH houses of congress we may not have the Obama mania that has since taken root.
John Oxendine is your STEREOTYPICAL republican and anyone who does not see this is either blind or has really taken to the Ox Kool-Aid. His whole campaign is full of key words and choice Republican phrases. The man has never fully governened except over an industry that donates millions upon millions to his campaigns. Give me ONE just one policy decision that he has had that you can pinpoint and say “Man, that made my life so much easier.” While your at it try to locate any information that can definatively prove what he is about. A voting record, an enactment of a policy, or any action.
Karen Handel is a career politician who can not stay in any area for any length of time to tell what she is about. She couldn’t stay with Fulton Co. and now she is ditching her S.O.S position. Other then her defense of the Voter I.D. law, which is more political then factual, I cannot pin point one thing that she has done to make Georgia a better state. Yeah she has a great sob story, but sob stories do not make a great leader. Besides any of that there is not proof that she is a conservative, but from everything that I have read and heard she is more on the moderate side of things.
I don’t know, maybe I am getting cantankerous and cynical of our Republican Party. I guess I better get prepared for Sonny Perdue 2.0 if anyone of these candidates find their way into the Republican nomination of our great state’s Gubernatorial race.
Shep, if Ox is cottage cheese, I suggest that he is “small curd”.
Actually, the serious question that needs to be asked is does this mean Eric Johnson’s “like Buttah’?”
You have to whip cream into butter. Not sure of the implications of that, but there it is.
Doug, you are a fountain that can spew forth a plethora of knowledge. Not sure of the implications of this, but there you are.
So far, this thread has included the words, “johnson,” “whipped cream,” “butter,” and “spew.” I thought this was an all-ages site…
Let me go meditiate on whether this is an insult and comment later.
It’s another SNL reference Doug.
I know it is, Jason, but I was “revising and extending” the comment like out heros do on C-SPAN. (That’s a C-SPAN reference.)
I don’t watch C-SPAN. I watch TV to escape.
I don’t watch C-SPAN, I live it.
I’ve decided that McBerry and Scott are like “whey”, as in there is no whey they can win.
Eric Johnson’s a Buddhist?
My sources tell me that Team Ox provided at least 100 tickets to its followers. Only to pull 111 votes. Another great day for the front runner.
R2R, then your source was wrong. I saw the Oxendine list and there was no where near 100 names on it for tickets. And for the record, my wife and I got our tickets from the Cobb Young Republicans.
Well, I have a friend, who has a friend, who knows someone who talked to a person who went and they said Jason stuffed the ballot box.
lol
I WOULD NEVER STUFF A BALLOT BOX!!! However, my wife is another story entirely.
Another ACORN hack eh Sheppie?
Guess when you get catch funneling money through Alabama PAC’s to try to buy the primary, you have to drop back to COBB YR to buy the Straw Poll.
Tough being a front runner
As the resident Bluto of PeachPundit, I hereby dub your PP Frat name to be “Ready2Grumble.
It’s a triatholon, not a sprint.
I like to think of it as a cricket match.
It’s depends on what kind of cricket match we’re talking about. If it’s a test match, we’ll have a series of matches and we’ll be here a long time.
Test matches, unlike straw polls, do mean something.
This is an amazing victory for the Nathan Deal Campaign, as Nathan isn’t from the Cobb County area, and that Metro Atlanta has been dubbed as Handel-Ox Country… This is just the beginning of Nathan’s long road to victory in 2010!
Just like the 2007 Cobb 4th of July BBQ Straw Poll was just the beginning of Fred Thompson’s long road to victory in 2008!
Straw polls are fun, but I learned LONG ago not to read anything into them.
Any predictions on the order they’ll finish on this Tuesday’s fundraising report?
Fundy,are we going to include personal loans?
RomneyGingrich12!!!
What!!! I don’t even know how to run Norton Antivirus on my Computer, much less hack someone elses.
Or so the Deliverance crowd would have us believe.
You’re crazy Riptide, but you’re getting better.
So my doctors tell me.
Oh, look, Nindy has emerged from his hike of the Appalachan Trail…
No, I just took time off from this site for its own good. You’ll be shocked to know I switched support from Ox to McBerry. I’m also not a sexist anymore.
Or any less.
*Ba dump bump.*
Did you have a sex-change operation? That would also explain your absence…
No, I’m still a male. I took time to rehabilitate myself politically, and am now a Flat Tax supporting non sexist McBerry guy.
Did Jenny get a hold of you??
No she did not.
Good. She would have crippled you, at the very least.
So you like Sarah Doyle now?
No, but I have a better opinion of Palin now.
(Forget it. He’s rolling.)
Dash, I’m a changed man. I don’t roll.
But you still keep six months’ worth of toilet paper rolls. Right?
No, ever since my trailer was destroyed by lightning, I now shop more often and live at a friends home.
Voting for McBerry and not a sexist????
You’re not the real Nindy.
Yes I am. I changed a lot politically during my leave of absence.
Car break down?
Car break down?
No.
Where have you been Nindy?
Taking time off from this site for its own good.
Ox, I warned you that if your silliness continued(eg. accepting funds from a questionable firm and having a staffer vandalize Handel’s Wikipedia page) that I may withdraw support from you, but you failed to listen because I was “in the tank for you”. Now, I hope you’ve learned your lesson.
No soup for Ox!
Yep Dash.
How about some Mrs. Dash for that soup?
Good show, Nathan Deal. Hang in there. I used to lead the Georgia Coalition for Immigration Reform. Kids and grandkids still in Cobb County and Atlanta. Try to preserve a little quality of life for them, will y’all?
Nindy – So, do you still think he’s “hot”?
No.
I don’t believe you. He’s so hot he keeps siring children despite being, well, you know…
That’s completely false and you know it!
Attaboy. There’s the Ox sycophant we all know and tolerate.
No, I’m a McBerry guy. I will, however, defend him from false attacks from the left.
Left? I’m attacking Ox from the right! I hate everybody that doesn’t fit into my Righteous 100.
So, Erick is in the tank for (and working the Internets on behalf of)Handel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Peer_review/Karen_Handel/archive1
Jason Shepherd knows from personal experience that Oxendine is a briefs man.
North Ga Indy is now a Lyndon LaRouche/Ray McBerry nut.
I guess that leaves me to be either the Eric Johnson or Nathan Deal fanboy on this site.
I don’t like Lyndon LaRouche.
The joke was that McBerry supporters – like LaRouche supporters – seem to be a few standard deviations away from the political mean and hopeless confined to the outer edges of the bell curve…
Well, maybe I should be the Johnson fanboy since Kellie is from the Gainesville area, and thus, should be the Deal representative on this site…of course, that would mean she would have to get over the fact that Congressman Deal doesn’t have the words “FairTax” tattooed on his forehead…
Josh is the Deal fan, he’s from Gainesville too. I’m unattached. BTW – I’m not a FT supporter, my problem with Deal is that he claims to be for something but never fights for it. He reminds me of Sonny.
…my problem with Deal is that he claims to be for something but never fights for it…
I know the type well. They’re for things they think will get them more votes than the other guy… no intention of actually doing anything with it though… it shows their position is not principled based… but rhetorically popular based… I bet he’s also “for the children” but has absolutely no plans in mind to actually improve their future… only his own.
Dan, does that mean you’re “against the children?”
I’m against those that just say they’re “for the children” but do nothing or things that are against their future interest.
All Libertarians care… we sure as hell aren’t in it for the money/power…. yet.
Impressive showing for Purcell. where did this guy come from?
Even more impressive showing for Kemp. From what i hear, MacGinniittie really had the volunteers out there. more than any other candidate including the governor’s candidates. But kemp won the straw poll handily. pretty impressive.
Agreed this was an impressive showing for Purcell more than doubling everyone else in the field. You asked…”where did this guy come from?”
He is connecting with voters because he is not a lifelong Politian; he is a candidate with real answer to challenging issues. I don’t know about you but I am tired of the same old faces playing the same old game. I believe that voters are going to look for real change in leadership, truth and character from someone that has answers that build up and empower the people and not themselves and the government. Purcell is that candidate.
Here is a quote from a press release that went out today. “The results of the straw poll are a clear indicator that Georgians are ready for some new voices and new leaders to lead our state, and for a leader who is an experienced health care reformer with a track record of results using free market solutions. I am honored by their support.” Purcell said.
I know this is just a small straw poll but you have to admit by winning 48.5 % of the total vote in a large field means Purcell is getting people’s attention!
Results:
Gerry Purcell – 153 votes (48.5 %)
State Senator Ralph Hudgens – 64 votes (20.3%)
Stephen Northington from Cobb County – 55 votes
State Senator Seth Harp – 31 votes
Mayor Harold Logsdon – 8 votes
John Fuchko from Cobb County – 3 votes
Check him out at http://www.gerrypurcell.com
I don’t know much about Purcell, but I do know he has a hot wife. And that’s good for something.
Remember, polls dont mean anything at this stage of the campaign unless they show you ahead
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