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March 6, 2009
March 5, 2009
- A volatile debate over taxes in the Senate
- Phil Gingrey on the topic of Rush Limbaugh, again
- Florida study: Sarah Palin hurt by a focus on her looks
- Your morning jolt
March 4, 2009
- Kemp jumps into secretary of state race, shows backing
- Trouble here: Paychecks for son-in-law went to Sanford Bishop's wife
- Sunday sales bill yanked in face of committee defeat
- White House: Rush Limbaugh fight ‘counterproductive'
- Operation Rush job: How Democrats painted Limbaugh as face of the GOP
- Your morning jolt
- Senate minority leader one of 19 lawmakers who haven't paid taxes
March 3, 2009
- A nail that could spoil Sonny Perdue's road trip
- Drunk-dialing over Sunday sales
- GBI looks at a congressman's stepdaughter and her two jobs
- Sonny Perdue endorses President Obama's choice of Kathleen Sebelius for HHS secretary
- Gingrich to convert to Catholicism
- Rural Georgia explores governor's transportation reorg
- Group urges defeat of bill to require proof of citizenship for voter registration
- Your morning jolt
March 2, 2009
- On Glenn Richardson and remaking the DOT
- Moving day for Political Insider
- David Frum on Rush Limbaugh's rise as voice of the GOP
- Gingrich the Phrasemaker on European socialism
- Your morning jolt
March 1, 2009
February 27, 2009
February 26, 2009
- Reed lays claim to Obama campaign advisors
- Governor vows to crush a transportation rebellion
- On Sunday sales and the Senate's playful sense of irony
- The topic of the day for conservatives: The "2% illusion''
- January unemployment rate hits record high
- Your morning jolt
- Bobby Jindal as the next 'secret Muslim'
February 25, 2009
- The speedy but rocky first vote on Gov. Sonny Perdue's transportation bill
- Reading material for your drive home
- Did Obama just call the F-22 a Cold War relic?
- Taking the fight over sexual academics to Facebook
- Your morning jolt
February 24, 2009
- Proof that Obama is sending Republicans to the couch
- Perdue talks transportation with the man who controls the flow of dollars
- Kathy Cox's turn to see what the stimulus offers
- In Texas, Hutchinson leads Perry with 'landslide' numbers, says poll
- Perdue on the stimulus: He didn't lobby House Republicans to oppose it
- The transportation push-back begins
- Your morning jolt
February 23, 2009
- What's Sonny Perdue thinking? Write your own caption here
- Radio ads target two Republican senators for school voucher vote
- Your morning jolt
- Get your bookmarks ready
February 22, 2009
February 21, 2009
- The Roland Burris controversy could spill into Johnny Isakson's lap
- Your first look at the legislation behind Sonny Perdue's transportation reorg
- In preparation for the fight over the F-22
February 20, 2009
- Clyburn, the stimulus and Southern governors
- Bringing Jesus into the stimulus debate
- Illinois governor demands Roland Burris' resignation
- Clinton tells Obama to keep his chin up. And Carter says this ain't no Depression
- White House time for Franklin, Perdue
- Your morning jolt
February 19, 2009
- Perdue on new transportation authority: No more reliance on '13 gerrymandered districts'
- Sanford on the stimulus: 'Being against it doesn't preclude taking the money'
- Now for the conservative argument against the Georgia Power bill
- Your morning jolt
February 18, 2009
- Of condoms, the Catholic League, and the University of Georgia
- An effort to draft Borders back into the Atlanta mayoral race
- The Tribune's devastating summary paragraph on Roland Burris
- Georgia benefits of stimulus package greatest in Republican north metro Atlanta
- Pat Robertson says Rush Limbaugh 'not exactly thinking rationally'
- Your morning jolt
- Octuplets give birth to legislation that would put controls on fertility clinics
February 17, 2009
- Call it a focus group on the governor's plan to reorganize transportation in Georgia
- Lobbyist alert: The governor's revenue reduction letter
- Isakson, stimulus cash, and property tax relief
- When political correctness makes sense: Renters of kilts told to wear undies
- Isakson on stimulus: 'It was a rush to judgment'
- Your morning jolt
February 16, 2009
- Perdue's transportation reorg goes public
- A surprisingly disciplined message on lobbyists, tax hikes from Roy Barnes
- Your morning jolt
February 15, 2009
February 14, 2009
February 13, 2009
- Isakson to announce 2010 re-election bid
- Utah's Republican, Mormon governor backs civil unions for gay couples
- The other three GOP candidates for governor on the Georgia Power bill
- The cost of economic stimulus is down to $791 million a page
February 12, 2009
- Cobb County GOP chairman 'violated' election law by listing false home address in 2006
- The power of stimulus: Senate Democrats hold hearing, and officialdom takes it seriously
- Thurmond: 'We're witnessing the emergence of a Darwinian job market'
February 11, 2009
- Bob Barr's next life: Let him get his feet wet, then send him to the Middle East
- A first look at the flow chart for Sonny Perdue's new State Transportation Authority
- Isakson's homebuyer tax credit already gone?
- For states, stimulus is a debate over $40 billion
- Georgia Power bill headed for Senate vote
February 10, 2009
- Isakson and Chambliss explain their votes against the Obama stimulus package
- Hard times ahead for Marietta's F-22?
- Southern Voice in receivership
- Senate decides against a veto fight with Gov. Sonny Perdue
- Oxendine: He'd be 'hard-pressed' to describe benefits of GOP rule
- Talk of reviving the Northern Arc is premature, says activist
February 9, 2009
- NYT's Krugman: Isakson proposal would be a bonus to rich house-flippers
- Georgia Power bill delayed to allow Senate Republicans to become 'more comfortable'
February 8, 2009
- Mark Sanford: We're closing in on a ‘savior-based economy'
- Politics and a maglev train: Where they connect, and where they don't
February 7, 2009
February 6, 2009
- The Legislature reverts to slo-mo, waiting for stimulus package -- and any more bad news
- One bill would raise taxes, the other one would lower them
February 5, 2009
- Clark Howard, Georgia Power, and the 'C' word
- Oxendine chides Cagle on Sunday sales, but there's this Gwinnett County stadium bill...
- Isakson on stimulus: 'I didn't trade my vote'
- Learning from the Taliban
- Scott on the governor's race: Too much GOP coziness with the people who write the checks
February 4, 2009
- Senate folds Isakson's tax break for homebuyers into stimulus package
- Georgia Power bill cruises past Senate committee
- Mag-lev must be served straight, no chaser
- Hard times in the newspaper biz just touched the '12 presidential race
- Twittering the session away
- On Gov. Sonny Perdue and hometown curiosity
- Sadie Fields on stimulus plan: No how, no way
- A bill 'relating to the distribution of unclaimed cadavers'
February 3, 2009
- Because real life isn't like talk radio
- A letter before the Daschle fall: 'Is tax dodging only acceptable for Congress and Cabinet?'
- Gingrich on Limbaugh, Palin and the other woman in a 2012 race for president
- Bite by bite, state DOT is looking a mite skeletal
- Plains welcome center will remain open, state officials say
February 2, 2009
- Obama's economic stimulus package and the Atlanta Rotary Club
- More rumor-killing, this time in the 2010 governor's race
- Papers, please: Handel wants new voters to prove citizenship
- Michael Steele's strongest endorsement yet, in a backhanded fashion
- Yes, it'll pass the Senate, but afterwards TSPLOST could be headed for backburner
February 1, 2009
January 31, 2009
January 30, 2009
- Republicans elect first African-American as national chairman
- Blue jean war escalates to include formal wear
- John Sherman has issues with property tax freeze, and the House GOP pulls back
- Incumbent RNC chairman Mike Duncan withdraws re-election bid
- Much of stimulus might take detour around state government
- You can't write a bill to force lawyers to be lawyers and not make Leno
January 29, 2009
- How peanut butter might gum up a Perdue bill
- Georgia GOP leader backs African-American as national chair
- Isakson gives Coleman $10k for his legal fight
- Gingrich confidant picks Steele in RNC chairmanship race
- Saxby Chambliss as a sign of things to come
January 28, 2009
- In the House transportation bill, watch which agency is picked to handle the cash
- Phil Gingrey to Rush Limbaugh: 'I regret those stupid comments'
- The untimely meeting of an e-mail and a Democratic push for ethics reform
- A transportation theme party: If you're not on the bus, you're under it
January 27, 2009
- Gingrey -- not that other M.D. -- defends House GOP leadership. Against Rush. And Newt.
- Gingrey on Obama: Impressive, and no teleprompter
- House GOP tries to box Democrats on property tax hike
- Austin Scott confirms he'll join 2010 race for governor
- From elsewhere: The DOT puts the skids on Atlanta's Beltline, and Franklin is -- well, upset
- An update from House and Senate budget writers
January 26, 2009
- Rush Limbaugh to Barack Obama: 'Back at you'
- Rumor-killing in the 2010 U.S. Senate race
- The end of an NYT marriage made in purgatory
- Listening in on the DOT board: Just 'cause you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you
January 25, 2009
- Johnny Isakson and 'CSI: Wall Street'
- Reminder: Checks above $10,062,010.98 will require two forms of photo ID
January 23, 2009
- House Democrats declare themselves protectors of school nurses
- Barr: GOP wrong, closing Guantanamo doesn't pose a danger to U.S.
- African-Americans cast 30 percent of Georgia's Nov. 4 ballots
- Isakson leaning against Geithner for Treasury
- Perdue to demand that DeKalb, Clayton school boards shrink by two
January 22, 2009
- Cagle: Price of property tax break could be state job furloughs
- Isakson: We need a '9/11' commission to investigate financial collapse
- The GOP considers its own Obama moment
January 21, 2009
- The three-way deal on transportation that's cooking: It's a 50 percent thing
- Gingrich: Senate Republicans should draw line at Geithner
- Speaking of ex-presidents: Welcome center in Plains falls to budget cuts
January 20, 2009
- House Republicans may be laying groundwork for state takeover of MARTA
- A non-encounter of the ex-presidential kind
- Watching the inauguration in an empty state Capitol
- Updated: Home of Obama celebrant reduced to ashes
January 19, 2009
- BBC video of MLK: Perhaps a 'Negro president' by 1988 or so
- Republican rumors: 'Polishing Bush's legacy' and other disinformation
- Rick Warren at Ebenezer: 'Can we not all just get along?'
- Is Kia plant about to become a GOP icon in the stimulus debate?
- SNL's Coulter: 'I think torture is good and Christiany''
January 18, 2009
January 17, 2009
- Jim Wooten retires
- Watch CNN video of Flight 1549 splashing into the Hudson River
- Now, if Obama ordered up a Camouflage Ball, Westmoreland would think about it
January 16, 2009
- Hillary Clinton in Atlanta on Saturday
- Georgia Power lets big businesses off the hook
- A word on 'Don't ask, don't tell'
- No standing 'O' for the Big 'O,' says the Post
- Michael Thurmond and the recession
- The fourth GOP candidate for governor: Ray McBerry
January 15, 2009
- Chambliss, Isakson vote (unsuccessfully) to block more bailout money
- For Rick Warren, mum's the word
- The price for challenging a House speaker
- The plan to expand federal control over banking, etc.
- Perdue to propose sweeping re-org of state transportation agencies
January 14, 2009
- The House makes its transportation pitch
- The Democratic response: Perdue is an absentee governor
- Sonny Perdue: The Reader's Digest version
- State senator wants ACORN's tax-exempt status yanked
January 13, 2009
- Isakson to Clinton: What about preconditions for talking with bad eggs?
- WXIA political reporter Denis O'Hayer leaves for WABE
- A bill to require voters to prove citizenship
- A Gingrich-Schwarzenegger alliance
- Updated: The transportation teeter-totter
- Updated: Keeping double books in the race for governor
January 12, 2009
- Because Sarah Palin would look so darn cute in an Atlanta Braves cap
- The changing faces of the presidency, from Washington to Obama
- Lines in the Georgia Power battle
- In '09 race for Atlanta mayor, Norwood tops Reed in overall fund-raising -- but not in ready cash
- Did Sunday sales of beer and wine just get a green light?
January 11, 2009
January 10, 2009
- Reed reports $431k raised for Atlanta mayoral campaign
- Barr: Blagojevich impeachment 'premature' and 'irresponsible'
- On whether a college degree is necessary for a governor
- The late Griffin Bell speaks, one more time
January 9, 2009
- U.S. Supreme Court to decide if Voting Rights racial protections still needed
- Westmoreland gets a second crack at whip job
- Cagle, the governor's race, and Sunday sales of beer and wine
- CNN's Sanjay Gupta vs. Michael Moore
- Cagle leads (barely) in 2010 cash race for governor
January 8, 2009
- Paul Broun & Co. add a little oil to smooth Barack Obama's way
- Conyers leads opposition to CNN's Gupta as surgeon general
- The new Obama poster
- Sarah Palin on the media: 'Compare my treatment to Caroline Kennedy's'
- Poll: 74 percent of Georgians want to vote on a penny sales tax for traffic fixes
- Obama: 'Government the solution, not the problem'
- Of Senate chairmanships, power bills, and guns
January 7, 2009
- Handel warns against shortening early voting period
- Ann Coulter on NBC's "Today Show"
- Senate Democrats agree to seat Roland Burris
- Robb Pitts: Fill vacant houses with cops -- for free
- Price: GOP failure to address health care 'perhaps the greatest missed opportunity'
- Cynthia McKinney on her shortened Mediterranean cruise
- Why Georgia State University needs a football team
January 6, 2009
- Chambliss sworn in, Burris rejected, and Coleman urged to concede
- Jeb Bush passes on a 2010 race for U.S. Senate in Florida
- Winds of change: The 'flatulence tax' and you
- Poythress says he's raised $300k for governor's race
- Building an argument against tax cuts
January 5, 2009
- Ron Paul: 'Palestinians are in a concentration camp'
- GPB to rebroadcast Griffin Bell documentary
- Holster that gun bill, says Cagle
- The rod-and-reel view from Wall Street
- Barr on federal marriage law: It's time for a divorce
December 16, 2008
December 11, 2008
December 10, 2008
- A change of heart on borrowing our way to prosperity
- Ford dealer in Savannah goes after ‘rice-ready' imports
December 9, 2008
- Rare Republican praise for Obama. In Georgia.
- Oxendine drops $36k on 'campaign auto'
- Last hot coal in speakership fight extinguished
- Exit interview: Bush on evolution and biblical literalism
December 8, 2008
- Newsweek and 'the religious case for gay marriage'
- State lawmakers decide to skip pay raise
- Newt Gingrich and Freddie Mac
- An emerging Obama pattern
December 7, 2008
- Barnes on a 2010 race for governor: He won't say yes, but he won't say no
- From SNL: No stake through Hillary's heart, and Obama as founder of a new Beat Generation
December 5, 2008
- Caroline Kennedy to join Uncle Ted in the Senate?
- A snubbing at a senatorial victory party?
- Sanford Bishop for secretary of agriculture?
- Politics and the rise of SEC football
December 4, 2008
- That talk of delaying a T-SPLOST vote until 2010
- Of dog bones and burglars: Just another Thursday for State Ethics Commission
- One of the many fathers of Chambliss' victory claims his child
December 3, 2008
- It's good to get these things out in the open. Now, group hug, everyone.
- Meanwhile, up in Minnesota.....
- Of Georgia's racially polarized electorate, and a winners-losers list
- Jon Stewart's heartfelt good-bye to the U.S. Senate race in Georgia
- Vernon Jones schedules an 'I told you so' press conference
December 2, 2008
- Chambliss gets the last word: 'Georgia values matter'
- The voice, but not the image, of Obama
- In the viewfinder with Barack Obama
- Renting some storage space for those dancing feet at the inaugural
- In PSC race, both candidates show last-minute money
- Barr endorses Chambliss in today's runoff
December 1, 2008
- Sarah Palin: November election was the result of 'frustration, disappointment'
- A second, last-day poll puts Chambliss ahead of Martin
- Poll: Chambliss with 'solid' lead, but...
- Congratulations. It's a recession
- Palin in 2012: So far, a GOP star without a center
November 30, 2008
- Chris Wallace to Saxby Chambliss: 'Greenspan said we were headed for recession back in April'
- The reason behind Tuesday's runoff
- An Alaskan, a judge and a general walk into a bar....
November 28, 2008
November 26, 2008
- Lessons for aspiring judges
- Exit notes
- You can find out who paid for your runoff candidate -- but only hours before the vote
November 25, 2008
- Should Obama come to Georgia? No, says Brazile
- A Martin response ad
- More on the Southern (and Republican) bloc building against Detroit
- Sarah Palin to cap off Saxby Chambliss' campaign
- A Chambliss strategist on Martin: 'My dog could have been on the ballot'
- A TV ad for Sarah Palin, four years ahead of its time
November 24, 2008
- The Obama robo-call
- Gingrich to be a UGA law school lecturer -- on judicial review
- Freedom's Watch won't last much longer than Georgia Senate campaign
- And, yes, there will be firefighters. Or something like.
- Two polls have Martin at 46 percent. The question is how far ahead is Chambliss?
- Transportation to be addressed early and forcefully, Cagle promises
November 23, 2008
- The case against a Georgia visit from Barack Obama
- The long-distance debate over gay marriage within the Gingrich family
November 22, 2008
- GOP groups say Martin's soft on crime; the Democrat tells of a kidnapping
- Two months after giving away $1 million, state school superintendent files for bankruptcy
November 21, 2008
- Sarah Palin and the Thanksgiving execution video
- A follow-up from the GOP: Sign that absentee request before you mail it
November 20, 2008
- The Obama radio ad for Martin: 'Turn out one more time'
- 'Thousands' of union volunteers headed to Georgia for Senate runoff
- In early voting, African-American ballots still lag
- The near-disaster that Sonny Perdue kept to himself
- Atlanta Press Club cancels U.S. Senate debate
- The D.C. debate over whether Obama should head to Georgia
- Newt Gingrich and middle-class tax cuts
- Bernie Marcus: Retailers who don't back GOP Senate fights ‘should be shot'
- Sugar executive defends Chambliss
- Cagle joins Oxendine, shuts down 2010 fund-raising for governor 'til Senate runoff ends
- House members scold Pentagon for failing to spend enough -- on the F-22
- Young climbs aboard AFRICOM effort
November 19, 2008
- Clinton at Clark: He finishes with a defense of Max Cleland
- African-American ballots down in early voting for Senate runoff
- RNC forks over $2 million to save Chambliss
- Buckley: Martin better on liberty than Chambliss, but 'could be worse' fiscally
- Call him D'Artagnan: Giuliani completes a GOP parade of presidential ex's
November 18, 2008
- Senate Republicans elect new leaders
- Shirley Franklin joins the ranks of the Great Mentionables
- Burkhalter, Cagle say homestead grants to be restored -- this year
- Why Romney and Huckabee won't be in Georgia at the same time
- A guide to the prevention of nuclear terrorism
- Both candidates balk at U.S. Senate runoff debate
- Of Vernon Jones and his opinion of former opponent Jim Martin
- They call it counter-programming
- The devilish runoff comes down to Georgia
November 17, 2008
- Judy Woodruff to moderate Senate runoff debate
- Of glass houses built on marshland
- The 2009 session of Legislature just started. And election season isn't over.
- The Georgia Supreme Court goes Oprah on us -- and wants to talk relationships
- Clinton event at Clark Atlanta University; Brazile to act as Martin advisor
- Stone throwing: Rocks pitched at the NRCC are pitched right back
November 16, 2008
- An emerging Southern view of the Detroit bailout
- No Barack Obama in sight, but Bill Clinton to rally for Jim Martin this week
November 15, 2008
- Zell Miller video from that Saxby Chambliss rally on Thursday
- Bourgeois, the Fort Benning protester, faces excommunication by Vatican
November 14, 2008
- Another (Republican) group joins the U.S. Senate runoff
- Chambliss leads, but Martin close behind, Democratic poll says
- At times, you wonder how 'Comedy Central' could survive without Georgia
November 13, 2008
- The DSCC attacks Chambliss on the issue of children's health insurance
- Live blogging: McCain warns that he's an example of what Democratic organization can do
- Dear journalist: The reality you just witnessed may have been slightly enhanced for artistic purposes
- Did Nunn school CBS' Couric for her Palin interview?
- Georgia NAACP says Obama's election has resulted in 'acts of intimidation and retaliation'
- ICYMI: 'Don't preach,' says Perdue; and Broun says to pay no attention to that voice of regret
- The Democrat now leads in Alaska's senate race
November 12, 2008
- Saxby Chambliss says he'd vote to expel Alaska senator, and Sarah Palin may be ready to replace him
- DSCC ads to hit Atlanta airwaves, greet John McCain
- On Thursday, no more President Bush
- A Democratic attempt to create some rain for the McCain appearance
- House chairman: Trim back early voting and the 50 percent rule
- Obama team confirms Nunn's role as defense advisor on transition
November 11, 2008
- Paul Broun expresses "regret" for calling Obama a Marxist
- This time, Sarah Palin has to give Saxby Chambliss a pass
- Web-only ads in the Senate race: What campaigns say only to their best friends
- Obama volunteers headed to Georgia for Martin and Senate runoff
- More on Gingrich and the race for chairman of the RNC
- A possible Chambliss ad, and weighing a visit from Obama
- On the end of 'the Southern strategy'
- Going home
November 10, 2008
- Flintstones vs. Jetsons, democracy vs. dictatorship
- Not just Richardson, but Keen, too, challenged in GOP caucus fight
November 9, 2008
November 8, 2008
November 7, 2008
- The Freedom's Watch attack on Democrat Jim Martin
- The Speaker's solution for an active duty lawmaker
- 'Mutts like me'
- On Thursday, Chambliss was 8,000 shy of 50% -- this a.m. he's 16,000 short
- 'It's wrong to support, or oppose, a candidate because of faith'
- Gun shop backs off 'Obama sale' on guns and ammo
November 6, 2008
- Killing rumors: Cleland says appointment talk is news to him
- TV ads in Senate race start again tomorrow
- Barney snaps under pressure, bites White House reporter
- Libertarian country in Georgia
- Karl Rove: Barack Obama won by peeling away churchgoers, white men
- Newsweek: On hackers, John Lewis, and Sarah Palin's appearance -- in a towel
- Sometimes, you may not want the military vote from Iraq
- On the Senate runoff: Watching paint dry, and the Ox says he won't graze while Chambliss needs the cash
November 5, 2008
- A map, an Obama mantra, and the case of the missing evangelical
- Chambliss 'in campaign mode,' Martin asks Obama for help
- Gingrich: 'This was failure of GOP Congress, president'
- Martin says he's in a runoff -- Chambliss says, 'Not yet'
- Chambliss slips below 50 percent
November 4, 2008
November 3, 2008
- Starbucks may rethink that free cuppa
- DOT board meeting will address 'blue' e-mails sent by Gena Evans
- Analyzing tomorrow's vote: Vernon Jones and Bill Campbell on WAOK
- A mulligan of a robo-call
- Republican group brings out the Rev. Jeremiah Wright
- Get ready for a very long Tuesday night. Which could last until Friday.
November 2, 2008
- Win or lose, Obama has changed the game in Georgia
- McCain on SNL: 'I'm a true maverick. A Republican without money.'
November 1, 2008
- Handel: Certain (Democratic) politicians 'grandstanding' on early voting
- Legends of the vote
- Who owns 'Saxby economics'? And what does it mean?
October 31, 2008
- 'You can vote however you like'
- The DSCC's anti-Chambliss jingle: 'Saxby economics don't trickle down'
- U.S. Rep. John Lewis offers to help clear the way for emergency weekend voting
- CNN/Time poll: Broader turnout throws U.S. Senate race into a runoff
- Money to burn: Obama campaign says it's back on Georgia TV
- A robo-call for Chambliss from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
October 30, 2008
- On the topic of Karen Handel and extended hours for early voting
- Atlanta not bowled over by Obama's 30-minute ad; cost of ads during Georgia-Florida hits $1,000 a second
- A surfeit of undecided black voters in the U.S. Senate race
- Georgia Supreme Court: Powell will stay on ballot in PSC race
- Marshall decides to play in the Atlanta media market
October 29, 2008
- Nunn: 'Not interested' in a spot in an Obama cabinet
- David Scott on his black GOP opponent: Honeycutt 'doesn't even seem to like us'
- Allen Buckley and the 'mysterious memo'
- CNN/Time: Georgia's on a razor's edge -- Barr, first-time voters could make the difference
- The straying of Catholics from the GOP and the abortion issue
- Marietta as headquarters for U.S. military's African Command?
- Robo-calls: Not what they're saying, but what they should be saying
- The technological gap between Republican and Democrat in Georgia
October 28, 2008
- The governor's new ride
- A bit of back-and-forth over polls in the 8th District
- InsiderAdvantage poll of Georgia: Now it's McCain by a nose
- A pair of hauntings: Cleland on Chambliss, and Fair Taxers dog Martin
- A petition for those against shifting teacher pension increases to manual override
- Hmm. Cops in Augusta area gear up for Election Day -- with riot training
- Barr on Palin: 'I was a soccer dad. I don't think that qualifies me to be president.'
- Of filet mignon, the Holocaust, and other state budget matters
October 27, 2008
- Thurbert Baker to Democrats: Give up the voter ID fight, or else
- A tale of two TV ads
- U.S. Justice Department says Handel's voter scrutiny requires approval
- New TV ads from outside groups swamp U.S. Senate race
- Atlanta pollster says he's received death threats -- but not from here
- House Republicans set Speaker election for Nov. 10
October 26, 2008
- 'The country I grew up in will be no more'
- Oh, yeah -- Bill Clinton was in Atlanta on Saturday
- The U.S. Senate race, and the case for a Georgia visit from Barack Obama
- A major DSCC attack on Chambliss uses Bush, the economy -- and the Wall Street rescue
- 'SNL' takes a Democratic turn, sending up Biden, Murtha
October 25, 2008
October 24, 2008
- Was McCain smitten by a pretty face?
- A conversation with Bob Barr, who's already looking past Nov. 4
- The robo-calls are coming: Get your answering machines ready
- InsiderAdvantage poll: Obama now has razor-thin lead in Georgia
- Chambliss hit with subpeona in refinery explosion lawsuit
- No House members from Georgia on GOP 'death list,' but Goddard isn't on a list of possible pick-ups
October 23, 2008
- Bob Barr on CNN: He wouldn't be surprised if Obama carries Georgia
- So what Spot leaves in your yard could be called campaign literature
- Scott and the DCCC take out some anti-Honeycutt insurance
- Reining in some out-of-bounds talk
October 22, 2008
- Lawmaker inundated with pleas to stop Troy Davis' execution
- Jim Martin lands Bill Clinton for some Saturday night fund-raising
- Yes, Nunn was with Obama today
- For Election Day hardcores: Votes per second, and exit polling reforms
- Bob Barr at Georgia Tech
- The day that James Dobson went after Colin Powell -- and Ralph Reed was caught in the crossfire
- Freedom watch took the high road, the NRSC chooses the low one, with an attack on Martin
October 21, 2008
- Barry Goldwater's granddaughter votes early in Fulton County -- for Barack Obama
- A Freedom Watch ad for Saxby Chambliss
- The 'Joe the Plumber' campaign comes to Roswell
- Disrespectful treatment of a flag, or not?
- A pairing of Vietnam vets: Jim Webb takes up for Jim Martin
- This election may spark another confrontation between Thurbert Baker and Republicans
- On why Obama might come to Georgia before Nov. 4
- Jim Webb comes to town, and an Ode to Joe -- but not by Beethoven
October 20, 2008
- A fear that Georgians 'will not vote their Christian values'
- Chambliss, Isakson push for a quick ACORN inquiry by Bush administration
- According to Democrats, Chambliss out-performing McCain in Georgia
- What you didn't know about Bob Barr
- The SCLC wants a river of people to march to the state Capitol, 48 hours before Election Day
- A hint of renewed Obama emphasis -- including a memo warning others away from Georgia volunteers
- More back-and-forth on the Fair Tax, and a bit of history
October 19, 2008
- In the coming race for chairmanship of the RNC, the name of Newt Gingrich comes to mind
- ICYMI: Martin distances himself from the Fair Tax attack on Chambliss
- Sarah Palin on SNL: 'Caribou Barbie' raises the house -- and Tina Fey was there, too
October 18, 2008
October 17, 2008
- That budding water war between Obama and Georgia Republicans? Never mind.
- Martin's answer to Chambliss on the issue of dead kids
- On the Fair Tax, shifting cash, and another third party preparing to enter the Senate race
- In the Georgia-Florida water wars, Obama sides with 27 electoral votes
- Every politician needs a stunt double -- shaking all those germ-laden hands can be dangerous
- Sarah Palin: Doesn't know if she'll play Tina Fey on SNL, but 'I should.'
- Libertarian Allen Buckley on TV: The Iraq war was a 'fraud'
- Because you went to bed so early: John McCain and Joe Biden on late-night TV
- Let's bet on who'll be more outrageous: Palin to be on Boortz this morning
October 16, 2008
- In U.S. Senate race, Martin outraises Chambliss in 3rd quarter
- Nunn, other Georgians make last-minute push for big Obama money
- Boortz takes up for Chambliss on the Fair Tax
October 15, 2008
- The DSCC enters the U.S. Senate race, and the issue is the Fair Tax
- The difference between who's being polled and who's voting
- Zell Miller to become a fixture at UGA
- Independent running against Mike Jacobs for House seat says she'd caucus with Democrats
- Acknowledging the competition: Chambliss launches two attack ads on Martin
- Georgia Christian Alliance out with its voter guide
October 14, 2008
- Lewis on his criticism of GOP rhetoric: He could have said it differently, but his words had the intended effect
- How to solve Georgia's gas crisis and protect certain House Republicans in one fell swoop
- Early voting in Cobb: Not a single black voter abandoned the long line
- Politico hooks up with InsiderAdvantage for some upclose polling
- On cell phones and polling
- Martin hosts a streaming town hall
October 13, 2008
- Because this political season hasn't been exciting enough
- Looking past Nov. 4 and John Boehner
- Voter registration, a mouse head, and the '08 presidential contest
- Another Martin ad attacks Chambliss on the economy
October 12, 2008
October 11, 2008
October 10, 2008
- This homicide case had a congressman as a juror. The verdict was 'guilty.'
- When trying to oust a Speaker, a testimonial from Zell doesn't hurt
- The Wall Street debacle and the Barr effect
- Carter cuts Bush no slack: 'Atrocious' policies have caused worst economic crisis since Great Depression
- Handel on the voter registration lawsuit
October 9, 2008
- Sadie Fields joins McCain GOTV effort in Georgia
- Boehner on the bailout: Some Republicans voted for it, some voted against it, but that doesn't matter
- On whether the DSCC should be playing in the Georgia race for U.S. Senate
- Two debates in Perry: Programs will be issued to permit spectators to keep track of bailout positions
October 8, 2008
- Because nothing stirs the blood like a front-door confrontation
- Rasmussen: Chambliss shouldn't pay attention to those other polls, but Perdue tanks on the gas shortage
- The new Obama button
- Draft bill: Give secretary of state the power to hand out carry-concealed permits
- Gingrich to McCain: Save yourself by dumping on the 'Bush-Paulson' bailout
- Saxby Chambliss endorses T. Boone Pickens' energy plan
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
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