The AJC’s Political Insider article yesterday, Kasim Reed to Democrats: Demographics alone won’t turn Georgia, also contains a message for the Georgia Republican Party in this time of political turmoil – govern well and expand your base or your days are numbered. Both political parties in Georgia are far too dependent on differing racial, religious,

History will mark 2016 as a year when insurgent progressives seriously threatened the candidacy of a mainstream, moderate Democrat. And believe it or not, Bernie Sanders might have only been the first half of that story. On Wednesday night, Athens hosted its first presidential candidate of the 2016 cycle, bringing Dr. Jill Stein to the

Nate Silver, who runs the popular polling / prediction site FiveThirtyEight.com, developed a forecasting model that correctly picked the outcome of the 2012 presidential election. Now, he is out with the 2016 version, which is based on the one used in 2012, but has been improved, notably by splitting the model into three separate forecasts,

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled in favor of requiring residents of Georgia, Alabama, and Kansas to provide proof of U.S. citizenship upon registering to vote. Most states only require residents to swear that they are citizens of the U.S. and require no proof. According to a story by the Associated Press, Leon sided against several

If you crush a marshmallow bunny, it looks like Kim Jung-Un. Anyway, Jessica is moving and is not able to do the Morning Reads. I’m filling in. Let’s get down to business. Jawja “Several plastic one-gallon vodka bottles were found on the ground, deputies said, while black power rifles, shotguns and pistols were found in

In the FB feed of your favorite GeorgiaPol.com writers came a post saying Atlanta City Councilmember Felicia Moore is running for President of said legislative branch. There is no other news on the internet and I’ve sent an email to Ms. Moore seeking confirmation and comment. I’ll update the post should I hear back. Forthwith, I

Former businessman, presidential candidate and conservative talk show host Herman Cain has endorsed Drew Ferguson for the open 3rd District congressional seat being vacated by Lynn Westmoreland. In a press release issued by Ferguson, Cain said, In politics, there are candidates with a record of doing things and others with a history of talking about

To hear Congressmen Buddy Carter (GA-1) and Doug Collins (GA-9) tell it, the insurance giant Humana is improperly using pharmacy quality measures to drive small pharmacies out of business. On Tuesday, the congressmen sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expressing concern over Humana’s proposed amendment to its Pharmacy Provider Agreement

The race to replace retiring State Representative Stephen Allison is down from 4 candidates in the May Primary to 2 candidates in the July 26 Runoff. Matt Gurtler, a Rabun County home builder won the primary with 35% of the vote with Rabun retiree Kent Woerner coming in second with 22%. On Tuesday a debate

There are a handful of runoff elections on July 26, but none more important than the judicial contests. As entertaining as it may be to watch the Euro-weenie elites and their fellow travelling American counterparts have a collective meltdown over the fact that Great Britain voted to leave a common market that they first weren’t