On A freezing election-eve in downtown Atlanta, T.I., a local rapper attired in large, shiny jeans sitting loosely well below his waist, orated on the steps of Georgia's state capitol. "The nation has appointed our leader," he drawled. "We need to enable Barack Obama, President Barack Obama, to have control of this house."rnWhether or not to do just that was the question put to Georgia's voters on December 2nd, when they went to the polls to choose a senator in a run-off election between Saxby Chambliss, the Republican incumbent, and Jim Martin, his Democratic challenger. Neither took a majority of votes in last month's elections. In the resulting run-off campaign, Mr Chambliss told Georgians that he would be a "firewall" against hefty Democratic majorities in Congress: his presence would guarantee
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