Legislators will soon be redrawing Georgia’s 14 congressional and 236 General Assembly districts; how far will the Republican majority go in reshaping these election districts? . . .
Rep. Alan Powell switches to the Republican Party in the Georgia House of Representatives . . .
Republicans will try to add a few seats to their majorities in the Georgia Senate and House of Representatives . . .
This past week marked the one-year anniversary of President Barack Obama’s signing of the federal stimulus act. It’s a fair question to ask how much good, if any, the stimulus act did in creating new jobs or saving existing jobs.
In the last presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama drew an estimated 78 percent of the Jewish vote, continuing a longstanding trend of Jewish support for Democratic presidential candidates. If you’re wondering why so few Jewish voters choose Republicans, a recent op-ed column that appeared in the Orangeburg (S.C.) Times and Democrat may provide a few [...]
It was Will Rogers who is credited with saying, “We have the best Congress money can buy,” and the passage of time has shown us that Will was, sadly, all too accurate in his assessment.
The death of Michael Jackson will obviously shift the media’s obsessive focus away from the extramarital exploits of Gov. Mark Sanford and his paramour from the pampas, but before we leave that topic entirely, let’s look at some analysis of what the Sanford and John Ensign scandals might mean for the Republican Party.
The advertising slogan about Las Vegas, “What happens here stays here,” doesn’t seem to apply to Nevada politicians anymore.
Taking a quick look at some of the other political websites . . . Tondee’s Tavern has posted the first of what will apparently be several analyses of legislative districts represented by GOP incumbents who might be vulnerable to an election challenge next year. The spotlight falls first on Rep. Jill Chambers, a DeKalb County [...]
What sort of future lies ahead for the national Republican Party? Dan Balz of the Washington Post analyzes the latest demographic data and concludes that the party’s future is not exactly a promising one.
