The Marietta Daily Journal – Runoff done Perdue now must define the real Nunn

A typically hard-fought primary season has finally drawn to a close thanks to Tuesday’s balloting to cap the nine-week long runoff period.

We congratulate the local winners (11th District Congressman-elect Barry Loudermilk, Cobb Commission District 1 GOP nominee Bob Weatherford, Cobb school board member-elect Susan Thayer and Cobb Superior judge-elect Ann Harris) and console the losers.

We also congratulate businessman David Perdue, who eked out a hair’s-breadth victory over fellow Republican Jack Kingston in the state GOP senatorial primary. Perdue spent more than $3 million of his own money in his pursuit of the nomination.

Job 1 for Georgia Republicans at this point is to begin healing their fractured party. And Kingston took a big step in that direction on election night, pledging in no uncertain terms to help Perdue win this fall.

And as former Georgia Party Chairwoman Sue Everhart of east Cobb said, “Republicans will do what they usually do. The ones that it really didn’t matter, who said ‘I like Jack better,’ they will be just as enthused for Perdue. Then there will be those of us that say any Republican is better than no Republican.”

Perdue’s foe this fall will be Democratic nominee Michelle Nunn of Atlanta.

via The Marietta Daily Journal – Runoff done Perdue now must define the real Nunn.