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October 7, 2008
- John Boehner on Barney Frank: 'He's from Massachusetts, although he can't say the word 'Massachusetts''
- Heads up: RCP, Electoral-vote.com have Georgia as ‘Lean McCain'
- Swapping blows in the 8th District: Marshall filmed TV ad at office of firm that does lobbying; NBC rebukes Goddard for calling reporter 'uppity'
- Buckley orders 'over the edge' anti-Chambliss radio ads dropped
- The real question is whether voodoo is a legitimate campaign write-off
- In a statewide TV ad, Chambliss makes the case for his vote to rescue Wall Street
- Broun says he'll show up at Atlanta Press Club debate
- First, state golf courses at risk. Now, halls of fame could be on the block. When will the pain end?
October 6, 2008
- Bailout fallout in Virginia: John Warner may endorse the Democrat
- Says Chambliss: 'Enough about Wall Street. Let's talk about the gas shortage'
- Another poll: This one says the U.S. Senate contest is a 1-point race
- John Boehner, Tom Coburn at Tuesday GOP fund-raiser
- Buckley aims another set of angry radio ads at Chambliss
October 5, 2008
- Saxby Chambliss and last week's vote to save Wall Street
- SNL takes on the vice presidential debate: "Are we not doing the talent portion?"
October 4, 2008
October 3, 2008
- Why your congressman switched on the bailout. Or didn't.
- Looking for votes in a place where 'bail-out' has an entirely different meaning
- Kingston says business pressure won't lead him to switch on today's Wall Street vote
October 2, 2008
- Bill Clinton makes a surprise appearance at Buckhead fund-raiser
- On TV, Jim Marshall explains his vote for the Wall Street rescue
- After the election, Georgia Republicans want to make a play for the 2012 national convention
- U.S. Department of Energy to Sonny Perdue: 'Uh, thanks for the letter, governor, but we didn't do it for you'
- The Insider's all a-Twitter over tonight's debate
- Playing catch-up with Sarah Palin
- The Ox: Use state patrol at gas stations to ‘keep the peace and enforce common sense'
October 1, 2008
- A second poll shows McCain slipping in Georgia
- No Bloomberg-style, third-term movement for Shirley Franklin
- Riffing on a cow patty: Paul Broun's phraseology takes off
- Fallout from the bailout vote: Marshall cuts a TV ad, and Goddard may be polling
- Has the Obama surge begun? Nearly 40 percent of early votes cast by African-Americans
September 30, 2008
- Chambliss video on a Wall Street rescue: 'Every single issue that we've asked to be address, has been addressed'
- WXIA/WMAZ poll: McCain-Obama race tightens in Georgia, Chambliss and Martin separated by 2 points
- Chambliss: 'Some' Atlanta banks have stopped making car loans
- Olens: Georgia needs to move to odd-even gas rationing
September 29, 2008
- 'Oh, my God.'
- Break out the salt shaker: Dems say Martin is within 3 points of Chambliss
- Eleven of 13 Georgia congressmen vote against Wall Street rescue
- Newt Gingrich: ‘I would reluctantly and sadly vote for the bailout'
- Creative Loafing parent company goes Chapter 11
- House GOP members from Georgia likely to vote against bailout
- U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall on bailout: 'I am willing to give up my seat over this'
September 28, 2008
- The case of the 'profane' mayor of Houston
- Dear Sheriff Hill: Ally-ally-out-in-free!
- Tina Fey/Sarah Palin back on SNL: ‘Katie, I'd like to use one of my life lines'
September 27, 2008
- A little barnyard talk at last night's debate?
- Gingrich: Bush doesn't understand fiscal crisis, and treasury secretary should resign
September 26, 2008
- ABC News comes to Valdosta: 'Let's not let them make any hay...or dirt,' says the mayor
- A conservative, female call for Sarah Palin to drop out
- McCain says tonight's debate is on; Huckabee calls his dithering a 'huge mistake'
- Gas prices, economy making Georgia's GOP leadership a little less likeable
- The Insider is all a-Twitter
- 'Drill here, drill now' has paid off -- for McCain, and for Gingrich's group
September 25, 2008
- Trouble brewing: McCain says 'there never existed a deal'
- Petroleum exec says governor should cancel Georgia-Alabama football game to save gas
- Says Towery: Zell Miller considered a 2004 race for the White House
- The people Obama needs to win: White high school graduates who may or may not go to church
- She's taller than McCain, but otherwise you'd think they're twins
September 24, 2008
- Talking points emerge: Newt Gingrich takes John McCain's side on halting debate
- Ousted Jekyll board member alleges corruption, wants a grand jury investigation
- First thoughts on McCain's call to delay presidential debates
- Isakson, Price and Linder make '50 richest in Congress' list
- Petroleum chief: Perdue ignored early call for gas rationing
- Democrats may spank Chambliss for dumping on refinery whistleblower
September 23, 2008
- Libertarian idol Ron Paul endorses someone who's not Bob Barr
- House Republicans from Georgia voicing qualms about bail-out plan
- Let's you and him fight over school vouchers
- Texas says Barr can't appear alone on its ballot
- Guns in churches: Penalties would drop from a felony to a fine for trespassing
- Jim Martin gets lively on the topic of Chambliss and economy
September 22, 2008
- More NRA stuff: The gun group has endorsed Marshall, too
- One more time: Gingrich says fight over president's Wall Street package will be 'much bigger than he expected'
- Cagle: Consider passing T-SPLOST as a bill, with Perdue's support
- The NRA endorses Barrow over Republican challenger in the 12th District race
- Charles Walker sent to Mississippi to help with Facility Group investigation
September 21, 2008
- An economic crisis forces a truce in the Republican oil fight; T. Boone Pickens jumps into the gap
- Because you can't stay awake past 10 p.m.: ‘I'm John McCain and I approve this message'
September 20, 2008
September 19, 2008
- 'Gang of Ten' energy bill put on hold until after November
- Barr loses first round in fight to keep Obama and McCain off the Texas ballot
- But if Tom Price is powerful enough to topple Wall Street, shouldn't he be able to raise more than a measly $1 million?
- Olens heads to Europe to tour military bases, collect passport stamps
- Isakson on the meltdown: Maybe it'd be better if Congress left town
September 18, 2008
- Poll positions
- Democrats call for special session -- and say that a veterans' home should have a higher priority than 'Go Fish'
- Thurmond on Obama in Georgia: 'He has a chance.'
- Republican Angela Speir says Democrat Jim Powell should replace her on PSC
- 11Alive: Obama trailing McCain in Georgia by 16 points
- Biden and the abortion issue comes to Georgia Catholics
- Red meat for the eminent domain crowd
- Jack Kingston offers a little pinch of reality to leaven the rhetoric
September 17, 2008
- Georgia unemployment figures are about to go presidential
- Jimmy Carter's close call in Denver
- Ouch.
- House votes to override D.C. gun laws; Broun and Lewis take opposite sides
- Got a problem with the business community? Put a chamber head in charge of your campaign
- ICYMI: An anticipated pile-up at the polls, Barr wants McCain and Obama off the Texas ballot, and Sebelius claims Obama is black
September 16, 2008
- The more competitive arena sucking up Obama workers from Georgia
- 'America's Most Wanted' host wades into Dunwoody race
- Turns out keeping your tires inflated isn't a Democratic ruse
- On Sarah Palin: David Brooks, Carly Fiornia -- and about that tanning bed
- Republican-leaning group goes after Chambliss, Isakson for 'Gang of Ten' efforts
- The warm and fuzzy side of Saxby Chambliss
September 15, 2008
- Bob Barr wins his fight to stay on the ballot in Pennsylvania
- Buckley ads: 'Have you been to the emergency room lately? Did you bring an interpreter?'
- Martin aims a second ad at the middle class
- Fifty days out, it's the economy, stupid.
- Heads up: Huckabee filling in for Boortz
September 14, 2008
- The backstory of the state's ban on campaign smear sheets
- Tina Fey as Sarah Palin: 'I can see Russia from my house.'
September 12, 2008
- ICYMI: The Golden Rule makes Southerners think twice about torture
- Grover Norquist; 'Gang of Ten' plan breaks any anti-tax pledge
- So a vice presidential candidate walks into the vet's office....
September 11, 2008
- Alan Abramowitz' bar bet: Barack Obama by 54 percent
- Poll: McCain steps out to an 18-point lead over Obama in Georgia
- ICYMI: Powell residency case goes to Supreme Court, Barr wants Paul on his ticket, and perhaps a last word on pigs and lipstick
- MSNBC weighs in on Rick Goddard
- A sobering start to the political season
September 10, 2008
- Paul Broun, his primary scare behind him, declares that debates are so 2007ish
- Gingrich on oil and energy: 'We fundamentally changed the national debate'
- Newt Gingrich: On pigs, lipstick, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears
- Cagle files his paperwork for the 2010 race for governor
- Allen Buckley: Saxby Chambliss has put a cap on debates
September 9, 2008
- Jim Martin leads with Max Cleland in his first TV ad
- Goddard goes up on TV in the 8th District congressional race
- Plouffe: Obama campaign shifting Georgia resources to North Carolina
- Did the Barack Obama campaign in Georgia just blink?
- ICYMI: Martin hits the airwaves today
September 8, 2008
- A word from Shirley Franklin on the death of her ex-husband
- An 'uppity' second look at the word
- Perhaps the newest headquarters for "Go Fish Georgia"
- There's the myth, and then there are the statistics
September 7, 2008
September 5, 2008
September 4, 2008
- Jesse Jackson down with food poisoning -- after a trip into Georgia
- Barack and Michelle Obama are 'uppity,' says Lynn Westmoreland
- Preview of 2010 gubernatorial race?
- Oxendine eyes 2012 convention in ATL
- A televised rebuttal to Cox's 'Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader' appearance
- T. Boone Pickens sells plan to hungry Georgians
- In which Newt Gingrich comes darn close to endorsing Sarah Palin for president
- Kingston wants Bush to join Democratic drill-down with a veto
September 3, 2008
- Updated: Who's going to cast Georgia's vote? It's a secret
- The difference between Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller
- An evangelical voice of, if not doubt, then caution when it comes to Sarah Palin
- Boortz not among those cutting Palin's daughter any slack
- A Bob Barr sighting -- inside the GOP convention
- Perdue: Dems say 'Dang!'
- The Sarah Palin Chronicles: Part II
- Busy day for Georgia GOP
September 2, 2008
- Certain takes the stage
- Bob Barr goes to Minneapolis
- Republicans making phone calls for Obama
- The Sarah Palin Chronicles
- Chambliss: Palin fixes ambivalence
- The Republican platform and the damage left by Katrina
- Denver and St. Paul: A word about security
- David Poythress and the long tail of history
- A word about Georgia's seats
September 1, 2008
- One Georgian reached the podium
- Goddard still hopes for speaking slot
- Proof that the Palins are an average, American family
- Save the barbs for tomorrow, Everhart says
- Breakfast is on, and then ...
August 31, 2008
- Is Gustav a Republican or a Democrat?
- Signs of an uptick in the fortunes of Georgia Democrats
- Greetings from Minnesota
- The story of Sarah Palin and her brother-in-law, the trooper
- So what's Alaska? Roughly speaking, it's Cobb County without Kennesaw
August 30, 2008
August 29, 2008
- Cagle and Handel make what could be opening moves in the 2010 race for governor
- Blogwatch: 'Dan Quayle was more qualified'
- Behind a vice-presidential rumor
- McCain confirms: He'll run with Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska
- Burkhalter on the GOP platform: When disaster hits, Americans shouldn't feel abandoned by their government
August 28, 2008
- On the floor at Invesco
- Just when you think it can't get any nastier, it doesn't
- Sonny Perdue invites Democrats and their 'millions and millions of dollars' to Georgia
- Independent awarded place on ballot against Jacobs
- Lewis brings them to their feet
- Third hand info on McCain's vice-presidential pick
- Perhaps when Barack Obama first met Ralph Reed
- Brothers tout unity through accessory
- Blogwatch: A Jim Martin spotting, and Obama-watch parties
- The Republican rain on Barack Obama's campaign
- Olens and Johnson join the GOP pile-on against governor's plan to erase property tax credits
August 27, 2008
- Georgia gives Obama 82 and Clinton 18
- Kidd, Franklin to cast Ga. votes
- An ex-POW from east Cobb to open the GOP convention with a prayer
- Speaking of rappers
- Porter gets his Nelly on
- Voting under way
- Carter: Party will unite
- Martin makes appearance in Denver
- GOP platform planks carry a few splinters for McCain
- Barr on 'Colbert:' So close to a discussion about global warming, but no cigar