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Georgia state senator Regina Thomas may have lost her bid to unseat conservative Democratic Congressman John Barrow in Georgia's primary election, Tuesday, but she is already looking ahead to another race against Barrow in 2010.
"I'm going to be watching his voting record very carefully and planning my strategy," said Thomas, after polling 23.9 percent to Barrow's 76.1 percent according to unofficial result released by the Georgia Secretary of State's office. The race drew 57,128 voters, with Thomas garnering 13,638 to Barrow's 46,490, the state election office reported.
Barrow, a Blue Dog Democrat who often sides with President Bush, outspent Thomas nearly 40:1, according to the Associated Press.
"Obviously I am disappointed, because you don't get into a race unless you think you can win, but I glad I took him on," said Thomas, who ran an all-volunteer campaign from her Savannah kitchen table. "He had the money and all the elected officials behind him, including Barack Obama."
In Chatham County, Thomas's home base, she polled 5,914 to Barrow's 7,503, or 44 percent. Of the 22 counties in the 12th Congressional District, Thomas won only tiny Treutlen, by a vote of 68 to 34.
Thomas said that after finding the surface of her kitchen table again and re-introducing herself to her husband, Ervin, she is going to turn her energies back to the Georgia senate, where she will fill out her term.
Barrow will face Republican John Stone, a former Congressional aide from Augusta who won a three-way race against Savannah talk-show host Benjamin Crystal and Ray McKinney, who is also from Savannah.
Lester Jackson, a veteran state representative, took the Democratic nomination for Thomas's senate seat over two other contenders and will replace Thomas in January as no Republican qualified to run.
Thanks go out to our new Georgia field team, PDA members who answered our call to make voter persuasion calls on Thomas's behalf or hold signs on busy street corners in the district. They include Jim Archer, Cynthia Brown, Kelly Fried, Anthony Favale, Bob Goodman, Dr. Bill Honigman, Susan Keith, Brad Kennedy, Baskar Kotte, Wendy Newton, Tom Pallow, Joseph Osterneck, and Will Strong.
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