SAXBY!

There's actually an election wrapping up today in Georgia, and you wouldn't even know it. That would be the Senate run-off between Republican Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin.

The election is occurring because a quirk in the Georgia state rules require a Senate candidate to receive a majority of the votes to win. Chambliss received a plurality of the votes on November 4th, but not a majority - and thus, he is facing off against Martin one more time.

But you wouldn't even know it. Fox News is alerting viewers to the result with only a lower-third graphic that read something along the lines of, "Chambliss ahead in Georgia Senate Race." On CNN, Campbell Brown's show cut to a graphic of the election results about once every seven or eight minutes.

And what about online?

CNN.com buried the story on its politics page, and didn't even make it the main story - it's a side-story link. The CNN.com homepage? Entirely devoid of mention of the election, save for a small "Georgia Senate Runoff" link in the "Hot Topics" section.

MSNBC devoted more of its homepage to coverage, maintaining a story with a picture throughout the day.

They added the top bar declaring the race for Chambliss when they were able to determine he was the winner.

This was incredibly surprising - the lack of coverage of this runoff - given the election frenzy this country saw over the last 18 months. Seemingly every American paid attention to the election on November 4th, but it almost seemed as if nobody cared - not even the media - today. Strange.