MORNING READ

With the Georgia Senate runoff election taking place today, liberal bloggers urge readers to give last-ditch support to Democrat Jim Martin, while conservatives lambaste Democrat Al Franken for considering an appeal to the U.S. Senate in the Minnesota Senate seat recount.

Despite a Public Policy Polling survey yesterday that showed Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) up by 7 percentage points, Chambliss’s Senate seat is not out of reach for Martin, MyDD’s Todd Beeton declares. At Daily Kos, brownsox implores readers to help Martin today by phone banking, while on the right Townhall.com’s Amanda Carpenter writes that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has energized Georgia Republicans by campaigning there for Chambliss.

Still several hundred votes behind Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), Franken is contemplating a new last-ditch effort to win the Minnesota Senate race, Power Line’s Scott Johnson says: appealing to the Senate for rejected absentee ballots to be counted. Franken would de-legitimize his bid for Coleman’s seat by appealing to his fellow Democrats in the upper chamber for help, Pejman Yousefzadeh opines at RedState.

And TalkLeft’s Jeralyn is unsurprised (if a little disappointed) to hear that a Texas indictment against Vice President Dick Cheney has been dismissed. Cheney had been indicted by a Willard County, Texas grand jury on the grounds that his investments in private prison companies made him culpable in prison abuse cases, and the blogger decides that the case was too good to be true.

FROM THE BLOGS:
Palin GOTV Calls for Chambliss – Matt Lewis, Townhall.com
Michael Steele, Meet Your Party – Michael D., Balloon Juice
Run-off Day – Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
Indictments Dismissed against Cheney, Gonzales – Jeralyn, TalkLeft
Clinton’s Fresh Start – Sean Quinn, FiveThirtyEight
Meet the Press Settling for Gregory? – Todd Beeton, MyDD
Thoughts on Rebuilding – Erick Erickson, RedState
Run, Toomey, Run! – Atrios, Eschaton
A Team of Mavericks in Georgia – M. K. Ham, The Weekly Standard
He Means It This Time? – Jennifer Rubin, contentions

OTHER NEWS SOURCES:
Success of Clinton Choice Hinges on Rapport – Washington Post
Pardon Is in Focus for Justice Nominee – NY Times
Franken May Seek Senate’s Help to Win Race – The Hill
Canadian Autoworkers Would ‘Take a Hit’ in U.S. Bailout – Bloomberg