With one day left before the run-off election, Sarah Palin is down in Georgia campaigning for Saxby Chambliss:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Call Sarah Palin the closer.
The Alaska governor and former Republican vice-presidential nominee is back on the campaign trail Monday, teaming up with Sen. Saxby Chambliss at four campaign events in Georgia on the last full day of campaigning before the state’s Senate runoff election.
Chambliss is the freshman Republican senator from Georgia who’s fighting to keep his seat. He’s up against Jim Martin, a former Georgia state lawmaker, in the runoff election.
Chambliss won a plurality of the vote four weeks ago on Election Day, but Georgia law requires 50 percent plus one vote for a victory. Due to the inclusion of a third party candidate, Chambliss fell just shy of that threshold, forcing a runoff contest.
Palin joined Chambliss at a pair of fundraisers Sunday night. She adds her name to the list of big-name surrogates who have made campaign cameos in the last remaining Senate election this year.
Chambliss has had help from a handful of former presidential hopefuls, including Sen. John McCain, who returned to the trail to campaign with Chambliss just nine days after losing the presidential election to Barack Obama.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani also have hit the trail for Chambliss in the past month.
Giuliani, Huckabee, and Romney could all make another stab at presidential politics in 2012 — and possibly joining them could be Palin.
As I noted last week when this was announced, it’s likely that tomorrow’s result will hinge on which candidate can get their voters to the polls. So, given her popularity among the Republican base, it makes sense for Chambliss to campaign with Palin.
As the race presently stands, by the way, it’s looking fairly good for Chambliss:
Barring something unexpected, I’m guessing that Chambliss wins this one.
