The group of Democrats endorsed Bush's re-election bid at a fund-raiser in Atlanta.
"If you look at Georgians and you look at George Bush, he acts like Georgians think," said Isakson.
Isakson hinted in an interview, while in town for a speech to the Gainesville Kiwanis Club, that political reality may have played a part in some of the endorsements.
"Mike Snow in northwest Georgia has been in three tight races," Isakson noted. "He understands the movement in that part of the state. There are others who have come out for the president who recognize his popularity in rural Georgia."
Isakson praised Democratic Missouri congresssman Dick Gephardt, who will be leaving Congress at the end of the year, and who pulled out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday after finishing fourth in Monday's Iowa caucuses.
Isakson said he respects Gephardt.
"I particularly have respect for those who are willing to do what's right in tough political circumstances," Isakson said. "Dick Gephardt did that in supporting the president on both the supplemental (budget) and the war in Iraq."
Of his own campaign for the U.S. Senate, Isakson said he raised about four million dollars last year from about 7,000 Georgia contributors. He is one of several Republicans seeking their party's nomination for the seat held by retiring Democratic U.S. Senator Zell Miller.
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