Retired Major General Rick Goddard is challenging Democratic Incumbent Jim Marshall in Georgia’s 8th Congressional district. In 2006 former Congressman Mac Collins lost to Representative Marshall in a close election in this relatively conservative district. The 8th tends to vote democratic locally, but trends Republican in Federal elections. General Goddard was recruited by the NRCC and should have access to quite a bit of money. Both Marshall and Collins spent boat loads of money in 2006, and this race looks like it is going to be the same.

This is Goddard’s first campaign so we will see how this race pans out. On paper he appears to be conservative but you never can tell. Mac Collins is rumored to run again but without NRCC support I think he will stay retired. State Senators Cecil Staton and Ross Tolleson have both spoken publicly about running as well, but Goddard is the presumptive Republican nominee.