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GA-08
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| House1: 435 seats | Senate: 33 seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOP | Dems | Total | GOP | Dems | Total | |
| Confirmed primary challenges | 63 | 32 | 95 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Possible primary challenges | 13 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Open seats* | 7 | 15 | 26 | 2 | 6 | 92 |
2. Includes Joe Lieberman, who is retiring from his Conn. senate seat.
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Contents
2012 election
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2012 fundraising data for GA-08
available when OpenSecrets.org updates for 2012.Race status
Incumbent: Austin Scott Incumbent running? Yes Primary challenge? No primary challenge for incumbent. Candidates
Name Party Status Reference URL Reference date Reference note Austin Scott Republican Confirmed candidate FEC Source July 8, 2011 James Marshall Democratic Potential candidate Blog Entry Source July 8, 2011 2010 Candidate & Fmr Congressman DuBose Porter Democratic Out of race Media Story Source July 13, 2011 2010 Gubernatorial Primary Candidate Carol Porter Democratic Potential candidate Blog Entry Source July 8, 2011 Carl Camon Democratic Potential candidate Blog Entry Source July 8, 2011 2010 Gubernatorial Primary Candidate (Candidate classification criteria)
Results2012 primary winners 2012 general election winner TBD TBD
2010 election
Candidates
Name Party Status Reference URL Reference date Reference note James Marshall Democratic Confirmed candidate Campaign Website Source March 22, 2009 Rick Goddard Republican Out GA SOS Source November 1, 2010 2008 Candidate, Did Not File Kenneth DeLoach Republican Out FEC Source November 1, 2010 Lost Primary Angela Hicks Republican Out Campaign Website Source November 1, 2010 Did Not File Paul Rish Republican Out Campaign Website Source November 1, 2010 Did Not File Valerie Meyers Republican Out Campaign Website Source November 1, 2010 Did Not File Diane Vann Republican Out Campaign Website Source November 1, 2010 Lost Primary Austin Scott Republican Confirmed candidate Campaign Website Source November 1, 2010 (Candidate classification criteria)
Results2010 primary election winners 2010 general election winner James Marshall, Austin Scott Austin Scott
2008 election
Incumbent: James Marshall
CandidatesName Party Status Reference URL Reference date Reference note James Marshall Democratic Confirmed candidate (source needed) March 22, 2009 Rick Goddard Republican Confirmed candidate (source needed) March 22, 2009 (Candidate classification criteria)
Results2008 primary election winners 2008 general election winner James Marshall, Rick Goddard James Marshall 2008 Presidential election results
Republican Democratic 2000 58% George W. Bush 42% Al Gore 2004 61% George W. Bush 39% John Kerry 2008 56% John McCain 43% Barack Obama District map and incumbent offices
Austin Scott's district offices - No district office information entered.
District map layers graciously provided by GovTrack.Us.
See the incumbent's page for more contact info.
Articles and resources
See also
- Index for all the Georgia congressional districts and candidates.
- The full House 2012 elections report.
- The RaceTracker homepage.
External articles
Elections.DailyKos posts tagged "GA-08" (link) Want this data? All information is open-source and free (as in beer and speech). Most data is available via API, RDF, CSV or other methods. See details or email us.
Campaign contribution methodology: Information is updated daily from the Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org), which downloads their data from the Federal Election Commission on the first weekday of each work week. Candidates must have filed a report with the FEC to show up in the widget and inactive candidates are screened out by CRP.
