Politics

You can argue about campaign strategists and outside money and the candidates’ resumes and who used social media better. And each candidate has made mistakes. But here's the reason these races are so tight: the GOP candidates simply don’t reflect Georgia.

Election Day is all about voter groups. The Minority Vote. The Women's Vote.  Someone reportedly has paid to put up misleading signs to suppress the College Vote. But no one ever talks about the...

This morning, the Georgia Supreme Court heard arguments on whether or not the city’s issuance of $200 million worth of bonds to help fund the $1.2 billion retractable-roof facility is constitutional.

The hour-long session amounted to little more than a re-hashing of Nunn and Perdue’s negative campaign ads, with the occasional oddball interjection by Swafford. It would have been more efficient to stay home and watch the ads on the candidates’ Facebook pages.

The state ethics commission is a mess, its organization and reputation in shambles. It’s forked over $3 million to four fired employees who blamed a cover-up in an investigation of Governor Nathan Deal’s 2010 campaign, then fired its most recent director last month after a judge said she’d been “dishonest and nontransparent.”

If Deal seems vexed, it’s understandable. In a state that favors incumbents and still leans right, the GOP governor should be cruising to re-election. But this race, which is Deal’s to lose, remains tied and possibly headed for a run-off.

Way back in 1990, Madonna repackaged her hit "Vogue" in a commercial urging the kids to vote (or risk getting a "spanky.") And the tradition continues, with Atlanta rapper Lil Jon asking celebrities what they're turning out for (get it?) this midterm election.

At least this football season has delivered some exciting upsets and shifts in the team rankings. On the other hand, the latest batch of polls on Georgia’s gubernatorial and Senate races delivers a familiar narrative: these races are close, y’all.

At last night's debates in Perry, Michelle Nunn stayed on the offensive and Nathan Deal demonstrated feisty combativeness.

The first head-to-head debates of this year's bids for U.S. Senate and the Georgia governorship were held at the fairgrounds in Perry, Georgia.