GA: 1980 Senatorial General Election Result

[RBH]

New Election: 1980 Georgia Senatorial General Election Results
    
    

Feel Free to compare this to the Presidential results ( https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1980&fips=13&f=1&off=0&elect=0 )

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Update

1) look at that DeKalb result
2) Zell Miller won 10 counties in the runoff with Talmadge ( http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=261128 ), Mattingly won 8 of those 10 counties.

[Nym90]

On October 11, 1979, Talmadge was censured by an 81-15 vote of the Senate for "improper financial conduct" between 1973 and 1978 after accepting reimbursements of $43,435.83 for official expenses not incurred, and for improper reporting of such as campaign expenditures.

Not sure if that makes him a FF in the eyes of some posters who like corruption; enough to outweigh his segregationism?

[Landslide Lyndon]

What's most odd, by today's standards, is the fact that the Republican won the urban areas, while the Democrat carried the rural ones.

[minionofmidas]

What's most odd, by today's standards, is the fact that the Republican won the urban areas, while the Democrat carried the rural ones.

This is the South. This was common until quite recently (Oklahoma Senate 2004, for a very late instance. Bill Clinton in Texas) as the Republican conquest of the South from the 50s onward began in the cities and new suburbs before reaching the countryside.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Still a Republican winning Fulton county at any time is odd.

[Nym90]

Still a Republican winning Fulton county at any time is odd.

True. About as odd as a segregationist Democratic Senator in 1980. Which obviously explains the result.

[Mr.Phips]

Still a Republican winning Fulton county at any time is odd.

It sure is.  Even Walter Mondale carried it 57%-43% just four years later.