New Polls; Same Story: Georgia’s 2014 races are close
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.
Brian Kemp campaigned—and won—at a distance from Herschel Walker. What does that mean for Walker’s Senate runoff?
Despite a high-profile challenge from Stacey Abrams, Brian Kemp won re-election by seven points, a wider margin than in 2018. The rest of the Republican ticket rode his coattails to victory—everyone but Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who’ll head to a runoff against incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock, in a race that could, once again, decide party control of the Senate.
Do you know the all candidates on your ballot? Most voters don’t
Informed Georgians for Justice is a nonpartisan initiative created in partnership with the Georgia NAACP to provide voters with information on where more than 220 candidates in all 159 counties stand on progressive reforms such as accountability courts, eliminating cash bail, ending solitary confinement, and more.
With mass resignations and peek into City Hall’s checkbook, Keisha Lance Bottoms aims to start defining her time as mayor
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms unintentionally launched a media firestorm when she asked more than 25 of her cabinet members to submit their resignations. But regardless of tactics, her message was clear: This won't be a third term of Kasim Reed.
Infographic of the Day: Which way Falcons fans will vote
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...
Tracy Thompson’s take on the South’s shifting identity
In The New Mind of the South, former journalist and Georgia native Thompson revisits the concept of Southern identity first explored in W.J. Cash’s 1941 classic 'The Mind of the South.'
Two women accused Herman Cain of inappropriate behavior
Politico dropped a bomb on the Herman Cain campaign tonight:During Herman Cain’s tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain, ultimately leaving their jobs at the trade group, multiple sources confirm to POLITICO.
Atlanta’s “unapologetic mayor” apologizes. Again.
Mayor Kasim Reed’s annual address to the Atlanta Press Club originally was scheduled for earlier this month, but rescheduled to today because Reed traveled to Washington D.C. to testify on transportation. It’s safe to assume he wish he’d stuck to the original agenda, given this week’s snow-induced gridlock that made Atlanta’s transportation woes an international news story.
The New Yorker’s 40 Nice Things About Newt
The New Yorker's John Cassidy asked readers to say nice things about Newt Gingrich. They did. He compiled it into a funny list titled "The 40 Nicest Things About Newt" that will confirm your best or worst prejudicial thoughts about the magazine's readers.
Video of the Day: John Lithgow reads Newt Gingrich’s press release
The Emmy and Tony award-winning actor gave a dramatic reading of our former congressman's recent press release on The Colbert Report last night. Just listen to how he says "Gingrich." Score one for the literati.
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