Atlanta has reinvented itself in the last 50 years as the “city too busy to hate.” It has the nation’s busiest airport; it’s home to the headquarters of several global mega-brands, such as Coca-Cola; and it’s the hub of an emerging megapolis stretching to Charlotte.
But race still provides the backdrop to politics in the state [...]
Writing Archive
Different Shades of Peach State Politics
Is Georgia Really in Play? Rhodes Cook Thinks So
UVA’s Rhodes Cook has a great column today about the ebbs and flows of party registration and how the Dems have added over 700,000 new voters since 2004 while the GOP has lost nearly a million. In Pennsylvania alone, Dems have gained nearly 268,000 new voters while the Republicans have lost over 220,000.
Interesting column, [...]
Can Obama Really Win Georgia?
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “He cannot win Georgia. Nohow, no way.“
Obama Running Ads in Red States Where the GOP is Slipping
The Obama camp began airing ads today in seventeen battleground states, some of which are typical swing states and some of which are designed “to sort of drive McCain and Republicans crazy,” as Chuck Todd put it on “Meet.” The strategy being that Obama has no chance of winning Georgia, but it’ll keep the McCain [...]
Electoral Map Daily Compass
The Daily Compass is back!
ALASKA: Nate Silver lays out the argument for an Obama trip to Alaska [FiveThirtyEight.com]
GEORGIA: InsiderAdvantage has Obama tied with McCain [Southern Political Report]
IOWA: McCain and Bush tour the Hawkeye State 60 miles apart [New York Times]
IOWA: SurveyUSA says Obama/Webb is the strongest Democratic ticket; McCain/Bloomberg is the best GOP one [Race [...]
Obama Camp Says It Doesn’t Need Ohio or Florida
If you’ve lived in Miami, Ohio or Miami, Florida during the last few election cycles, you’ve probably grown accustomed to being lavished with attention — or maybe annoyed to exhaustion — by the political campaigns.
Well, last week the Obama camp declared that its road to the White House won’t necessary run through these behemoth battlegrounds. [...]
Bob Barr Could Make Georgia and North Carolina Competitive
A new poll for a former adviser to Newt Gingrich suggests that Libertarian candidate Bob Barr could pick off enough votes in Georgia and North Carolina to make the two states competitive for Barack Obama. The InsiderAdvantage survey found Barr picking up 8 percent in Georgia and 6 percent in North Carolina, putting Obama within [...]
Georgia Wants to Redraw Border with Tennessee
It’s always been about “states’ rights” in the South. This time, Georgia state legislators say they have the right to water from the Tennessee River, citing a faulty 1818 survey that placed the Georgia-Tennessee border over a mile south of where it should be.
The border should have been set at the 35th parallel, but according [...]
Super Tuesday Maps
It’s been a busy week, but with the dust settled from Super Tuesday, we now have a clear picture of who won.
On the Democratic side, Barack Obama took 14 states to Hillary Clinton’s eight, although Hillary prevailed in more populous states like California and New York. The result was a near-tie: Hillary won 50.2 [...]
Huck Looks for the SEC Sweep
From Mike Hucakbee during his press conference:
“It’s tough for this ole Razorback to say things like ‘Roll, Tide, Roll,’ but I’m doing it tonight. And it’s tough for this ole Razorback to look over there at the state just to the East of us and say that ‘We’re, too, Volunteers.’ I think before the [...]
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