In the wake of Donald Trump becoming the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, the Cook Political Report issued an updated Electoral College Scorecard. The latest rankings predict the Democratic nominee, likely Hillary Clinton, with 304 electoral votes, Donald Trump with 190 votes, and the remaining 44 votes as a tossup. 270 votes are required to win
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Also on this date, in 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he made a 15 minute suborbital flight. Peaches They managed to mess up the Georgia Milestones Test. Again. Student killed on campus – why was campus carry vetoed? Our peaches aren’t safe enough? Life on CraigsList really is
From a press release from Secretary of State Brian Kemp: Today Secretary of State Brian Kemp issued his final decision in candidate challenges for two contests on the upcoming May 24 General Primary and Nonpartisan Election ballot. To initiate a candidate challenge, an elector residing within a district must submit a complaint to the Secretary
Texas Senator Ted Cruz suspended his presidential campaign Tuesday night after a decisive loss in the Hoosier State — one that he determined was a must win for him. A post mortem story in Politico suggests that despite the fact that Indiana should have been Cruz-friendly territory with its southern social conservative heritage, the candidate’s
U.S. Congressman Doug Collins (R, GA-9) has released an ad attacking Paul Broun (R, GA-10) over Broun’s ethic charges while serving in Congress and the indictment of Paul Broun’s top staffer. He also has set up a webpage that goes into more details about Broun’s issues. Broun is one of four Republican challengers to Rep.
Donald Trump’s victory in Indiana yesterday signaled a lot of things about the direction of the Republican Party, but mostly it was about entering into the final stage of the presidential primary: acceptance of a presumptive nominee. For some of us, that’s going to be a little harder than others. There’s thought and strategy behind
There is no question that there is more information available to us today than ever. And there are more sources for that information. Increasingly much of that information is coming in the form of video followed by the written word. So a March article on intellectualtakeout.org titled Americans Don’t Read… and that’s Affecting our Elections
Place your bets on Exaggerator or Gun Runner. And prepare for lots of queso (hopefully too much queso which, intriguingly, is always just enough queso). NY Times has fawning praise for Georgia State’s efforts to prevent students dropping out. Their description of my time there: “a poor-performing, big urban institution with low graduation rates and yawningly wide
Jon Richards covered the campus carry veto that is stealing the limelight, but there are 16 total bills that the Governor vetoed. He also used the line item veto on the 2017 budget (HB 751) and also disregarded some non-binding language in the same budget. The following is a synopsis of each of the bills that were vetoed.
This year’s bill signing period was bookmarked by two significant vetoes. Four days after the legislative session ended, the governor vetoed House Bill 757, the religious liberty bill. This afternoon, he vetoed House Bill 859, which would have allowed students who are at least 21 years old with concealed carry permits to possess guns in
