Georgia voters are returning to the polls today to decide one of two unresolved U.S. Senate races that Democrats need to win for a 60-seat majority impervious to GOP filibusters. There are two other statewide races on the ballot and some local races around the state, as well.
Georgia's maverick Democrat Zell Miller threw his support behind Sen. Saxby Chambliss Wednesday saying he "could well be the last man standing between a far, far left liberal agenda sailing through the Senate."
Early/advance voting ends in Georgia for the Dec. 2 runoffs on Wednesday in most counties because of the Thanksgiving holidays, and although most Hall County offices will also be closed Wednesday the elections office will not.
Early Voting begins Monday for the Dec. 2 runoffs in Georgia, and for Lumpkin County voters there's more at stake than the three statewide races on the ballots in the other Gainesville area counties.
The woman who oversaw this year's elections in Hall County - for the first time in her career - says she was so consumed in getting ready for the big day and the voting leading up to Election Day that she dreamed about the election "three or four times a week."
Gainesville Mayor Myrtle Figueras is among those elated at the election of Barack Obama as this country's first African-American president. But, she says, not just for her race, but for the country as a whole.