Georgia Republicans Go To The Polls

ATLANTA (AllPolitics, July 9) -- Despite an abysmally low predicted turnout of 30 percent, Georgia voters today will choose one of six Republicans to face Democrat Max Cleland in the November U.S. Senate race.

Six Republicans have fought an intense battle for their party's nomination, in the attempt to fill the seat vacated by retiring Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.).

Guy Millner, the wealthy Atlanta businessman who ran for governor in 1994, is currently leading the pack. Johnny Isakson, an Atlanta real estate executive who was the gubernatorial nominee in 1990, has recently been endorsed by many of the newspapers in Georgia and could force Millner into an Aug. 6 runoff.

Other contenders include Dr. Paul Broun Jr., Kennesaw businessman Bruce Hatfield, Decatur retiree Dean Parkison, and Clint Day, a two-term state senator and son of the founder of Days Inns.

"The candidate who will succeed Sam Nunn in the U.S. Senate, we are convinced, will be one in the Sam Nunn mold: serious-minded, deliberative, focused, a familial figure of acknowledged intellectual substance," said The Atlanta Journal. "We believe that because Nunn didn't invent the mold. He fit it."

Cleland, Georgia's former secretary of state, is unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

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