The Solid South

McCain picks up Alabama and Georgia. As someone who has read Tom Schaller's Whistling Past Dixie, this doesn't surprise me. As black turnout goes up in the deep South, white turnout usually does as well.

It was good for Obama to raise turnout and spend money in Georgia, but realistically it wasn't going to flip. The Republicans are a regional party. The Mid-South, however, states like Virginia and North Carolina, are very much in play.

I also wonder how this will affect Jim Martin's Senate race. He's overperforming Obama right now, and not much of Atlanta is in. Hopefully we can get to a runoff.