Now the Republican Party’s nominees, U.S. Senate candidate David Perdue and U.S. House of Representatives candidate Rick Allen have come out battling against their opponents while making common cause between themselves.Both met Saturday with supporters who gathered in the Bulloch County GOP headquarters, in a former storefront building on South Zetterower Avenue. It was part of a daylong “Unity Tour” put together by the 12th District Republican Party. Besides Statesboro, the tour had scheduled stops in Lyons, Dublin, Waynesboro and Augusta.Perdue and Allen obviously have something in common: decades of experience operating businesses, no experience in government, and therefore “outsider” status.“We have business backgrounds and the priorities in Georgia right now are the debt and the economy and jobs, and so he and I have had several conversations and his stands on those are very similar to mine,” Perdue told reporters in Statesboro.Having beaten the local favorite, U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, in the statewide primary runoff, Perdue now faces Democratic nominee Michelle Nunn in the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss.