Category: Campaigns+Elections

  • Rent Is Too Damn High!

    Yes, there’s a run-off election tomorrow, but this post isn’t about that. This post is about all the awesome people who exercised their right to vote … for someone not officially on the ballot. The people who truly embody the Vote or Die spirit. Without further adieu, here are the top ten best Cobb County…

  • Sen. Golden (D-Valdosta) Is Switching

    Per the tip line. More details as they emerge. UPDATE 1: For those keeping track, “Golden’s move gives the Republicans 36 seats in the Senate to 20 for the Democrats, leaving the GOP two votes shy of a two-thirds “super majority.””

  • Alvin Greene for President!

    Maybe this is the primary challenge a certain South Georgian has been waiting for: “I’m the next president,” Greene went on. “I’ll be 35 … just before November [2012], so I was born to be president. I’m the man. I’m the man. I’m the man. Greene’s the man. I’m the man. I’m the greatest person…

  • Post Mortem: The DFI Edition

    I figured all the other pundits are writing their election 2010 post mortems so why not weigh in myself while wearing a fabulous Democratic Fashion Institute chapeau. Stop reading right now if you are one of those liberals who think that we should be “above what people look like” and still hope our folks freaking…

  • A New Leader for the House Dems?

    If you didn’t know any better, you’d think Nancy Pelosi was a local Georgia politician given that her name or photo appeared on numerous mailers and political ads this cycle. Given that, let’s talk about whether she should remain leader of the House Dems. The NY Times thinks not. What they need is what Ms.…

  • Ladies’ Night

    Last night, when Elena Parent defeated Rep. Jill Chambers, she became the only Democrat in Georgia, and one of only ten in the entire nation, to take a seat in the state legislature from an incumbent Republican. Those aren’t the only waves Georgia women made last night. When the Georgia General Assembly convenes in January,…