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+Nathan Deal (R)
1,365,832
 		53.02%
Roy Barnes (D)
 1,107,011
 		42.97%
John Monds (L)
 103,194
 		4.01%
write-ins (2)
 124
  

2,576,161
Registration: .  Ballots Cast: .
Plurality: 258,821 votes (10.05 percentage points)
 GA Secretary of State


Notes:  Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) was term-limited.  U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal (R) defeated former Gov. Roy Barnes (D) and John Monds (L) to keep the seat in Republican hands.

Deal was first elected to Congress in 1992 as a Democrat; he switched to the Republican Party in 1995.  He resigned from Congress in March 2010 amid ethics questions and to focus on his campaign.   Previously he served 12 years in the State Senate, first elected in 1980 as a Democrat.

Barnes had most recently been working as a attorney at the Barnes Law Group.  He was elected governor in in 1998 and served one term, losing his 2002 re-election bid to Perdue in an upset.  Previously he served in the State House (1992-98), ran for governor in 1990, and served in the State Senate (1974-90).

Monds was familiar to Georgia voters, from his 2008 campaign for Public Service Commission District 1, when, in a two-person race, he tallied over 1 million votes, the most ever received by a Libertarian candidate at that time.

July 20 Primaries and August 10 Republican Runoff
Republicans saw a very competitive primary race, with four candidates finishing in double digits: Secretary of State Karen Handel 231,990 votes (34.1%), Deal 155,946 (22.9%), state Senate President Pro Tem Eric Johnson 136,792 (20.1%) and Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine 115,421 (17.0%) out of 680,499 total votes tallied.  Handel and Deal advanced to the August 10 runoff (>), and Deal eked out a narrow win, by 291,035 votes (50.2%) to 288,516 (49.8%) out of 598,551 total votes.

Barnes easily won the July 20 Democratic primary, tallying 259,482 votes (65.6%) followed by Attorney General Thurbert Baker 85,,571 (21.6%), retired adjuntant general Lt. Gen David Poythress 21,780 (5.5%) and House Minority Leader DuBose Porter 17,767 (4.5%) and three others out of 395,467 total votes tallied.

Deal, Barnes and Monds debated several times:

Oct. 3 - Organized by student government associations from Georgia Public Broadcasting studios in Atlanta (>);

Oct. 12 - at The Temple in Atlanta;

Oct. 14 - sponsored by WALB, in Perry — only Deal and Barnes;
 
Oct. 31 - Atlanta Press Club debate from Georgia Public Broadcasting studios in Atlanta (>).


 Campaign Managers:
Nathan Deal:  Chris Riley
Worked for Deal starting on his 1992 congressional campaign.

Roy Barnes:  Chris Carpenter
J.D. from Emory University School of Law, 1994; B.A. from Wofford College, 1990.
See also:
Eric Stirgus and Jim Tharpe.  "Candidates claims to run 'civil' campaign veer off track."  PolitiFact, Oct, 29, 2010.

Larry Peterson.  "Barnes, Deal bash each other with hard-hitting ads."  Savannah Morning News, Oct. 16, 2010.

Jessica Taylor.  "Handel concedes to Deal in Ga. runoff."  Politico, Aug. 11, 2010.

Stuart Rothenberg.  "Georgia's Roy Barnes Hopes for a Successful Second Act."  Roll Call, June 24, 2009.



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