Yarbrough: Analyzing primaries isn't shooting pool

As promised, I have the latest analysis of the recent primary results, courtesy of Junior E. Lee, general manager of the C. Richard Yarbrough Worldwide Media and Pest Control Enterprises, located over a pool room in Greater Garfield.

I almost missed my deadline because I couldn't get Junior to answer the phone. He was shooting pool with the Bodine brothers, Roy and Leroy, and losing badly. Junior hates to lose, particularly to the Bodine brothers.

He wasn't happy to be interrupted, but gave me the information and guaranteed its accuracy within plus-or-minus whatever would get me off the telephone.

First, how did John Oxendine blow a big lead in the Republican gubernatorial primary and not even make the runoff?

Junior's analysis is that nobody in the Republican Party likes Oxendine. One insider told him if the Ox had made the runoff, the number of Republicans standing in line to endorse his opponent would have been so long, you'd have thought they were buying one of those iPhone contraptions.

Eric Johnson didn't do so well, either. Junior says that's because he is from Savannah. The only politician from Savannah who ever had any statewide political impact was Gen. James Oglethorpe, and when he got here there was nothing around but Savannah, so that doesn't count.

In the Democratic gubernatorial primary, former Gov. Roy Barnes got the nomination without a runoff. Junior says that was the result of two factors. First, Barnes raised more money than the gross national product of Finland, and then used that money for television commercials to apologize for all the things he did wrong while governor. That made it hard to criticize his past performance when he was doing it for you, Junior believes.

Junior thinks Barnes has a stand-in that looks just like the former governor. Junior got suspicious the morning after the election when he saw a man on television who closely resembled Barnes saying he was "humble." Junior says people have accused Barnes of a lot of things, but hu

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