Tonight Saxby Chambliss crushed Jim Martin to win the Senate seat in Georgia. A win in Georgia and a win in Minnesota would gives the Democrats a filibuster 60-seat majority in the Senate. But Obama’s coattials do not transfer to people not named Obama.

According to Boston.com, “Martin is cloaking himself in as much Obama as he can find. He is running ads with footage of Obama’s victory address in Chicago, and has begun interpolating lines from Obama’s speeches into his own.” Obama recorded radio and robocalls for Obama as well. But this didn’t help Martin. In fact, it might have hurt Martin.

As of right now, Chambliss is beating Martin 57% to 43%. That’s a good ol’-fashion southern-style beat down.

Unlike Palin who rallied the troops for Chambliss, Obama didn’t go down to Georgia. There only plausible reason seems to be that he didn’t expect Martin to have a chance.

Obama only lost 44% to 51% to McCain, but Martin, who tried to tie himself to Obama was crushed by 14% (as of this writing). Obama attacts people to him, but you have to wonder whether his popularity will help anyone else.