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Hold On To Your Wallet - Tax Reform At Work; 7/29/10
Special commission begins work on tax plan for next year's Legislature

Runoff Strategies Shift With Time, Money Short; 7/28/10
Look for intensified media hits, ethics challenges, blog attacks

Georgia Moves Forward A Step In Race To The Top; 7/27/10
But so do the states competitors

Dr. Charles Bullock: 'Friends And Neighbors' Politics in the Georgia Campaigns; 7/27/10
How local pride figured in the GOP governor's race

Johnson Chides Handel In 'Farewell' Column; 7/26/10
'I never went negative against a Republican in my 18-year career...'

Tales From The Gnat Line, The Gold Dome And Other Places; 7/26/10
Too hot for fishing or golf? Read a book. It's been a bumper year for Georgia politics, history

Outsiders, Insiders, Charges and Counter-Charges; 7/26/10
A report on the 7th and 9th congressional district Republican runoff debates

NRA Endorses Deal In GOP Gubernatorial Runoff; 7/23/10
Gun group praises ex-congressman's 'stellar record' on Second Amendment issues

Three Endorsements From Defeated Candidates In Insurance Comish Runoff; 7/23/10
Knox backing Hudgens; Harp, Northington backing Sheffield

Georgia Experiencing Short-Term Benefit From Gulf Spill; 7/23/10
But spill could prove to be expensive, long-term problem

Matt Towery's Inside The Numbers: Mama Can't Find A Doctor And Other Fallout From Health Reform; 7/23/10
A frequent refrain: 'We are no longer accepting new patients'

Handel Slams Georgia Right to Life For Attack; 7/22/10
Calls on Deal to join her in demanding resignations of two top leaders

Handicapping Roy Barnes; 7/22/10
He's got nothing much to complain about but something, perhaps, to wish for

The Year Of The Endangered Frontunner; 7/22/10
In South Carolina, Alabama and, now, in Georgia, the early leader stumbles

Mitt Romney Endorses Karen Handel In Georgia Runoff; 7/21/10
Her experience "just what Georgia needs," he says

Record High Balloting On GOP Primary Side, Record Low On Dem Side; 7/21/10
Participation in Dem primary lowest since end of World War II

Ox Tumbles As Handel, Deal Head To Runoff; 7/21/10
Barnes sails to Democratic nomination; no runoff needed

How Statewide, Congressional Candidates Fared; 7/21/10
Many runoffs ahead, including another one in 9th Congressional District

Two Legislators Fall To Primary Challengers; 7/21/10
Republican Sen. John Wiles, Democrat Rep. Don Wix defeated

With Much At Stake, Turnout Spotty As Georgia Votes; 7/20/10
A number of runoffs likely, and the leader usually wins the second time around, too

Tom Baxter: Lots Of Runoff Combinations Possible In GOP Primary
Race fluid enough that with light turnout, anything could happen

InsiderAdvantage/WSB-TV Poll: Handel Surge Continues; 7/19/10
Huge poll taken Sunday night shows three-way race for second spot in runoff

Handel Skips Both Weekend Debates; 7/19/10
The last two debates were held without the frontrunner

Barnes Looking To November In Final Democratic Primary Debate; 7/19/10
His targets were less his Democratic rivals and more the Republicans

7th District Candidates - All Eight of Them - Compete for Air Time in Debate; 7/16/10
Encounter becomes a competition to get noticed among the crowd

Hawkins Unable To Rattle Graves In Televised 9th District Debate; 7/16/10
Hour-long encounter reveales few differences between participating candidates

InsiderAdvantage/WSB-TV Poll: Handel Surges Ahead Of GOP Pack; 7/16/10
Deal, Oxendine, Johnson battle for runoff berth

Johnson: Enemy Isn't Other Republicans, It's Obama; 7/16/10
Urges other GOP candidates to pull down negative ads

No Surprise Here: Barnes Gets Backing of Kasim Reed; 7/16/10
Reed got Barnes' backing in Atlanta mayor's race last year

Ethics Commission: Sky's The Limit For Independent Corporate Contributions; 7/16/10
Corporations can spend all they want on independent campaigns

Former Rep. Billy McKinney Dead at 83; 7/16/10
Cancer claims outspoken Democrat and father of former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney

Matt Towery's Inside The Numbers: A Newt Bid Might Make Sense; 7/15/10
In 2012, he'll be the same age Ronald Reagan was when he was elected President

Handel Now Under Fire On TV From Two Opponents; 7/14/10
A'tag-team' ad attack from Oxendine and Deal

Handel Likely On The Rise ... Could Ox Miss The Runoff? 7/14/10
Updated analysis of the governor's race from Matt Towery

Estimate: Fewer Than 100 Illegal Aliens Attend Georgia Public Colleges; 7/14/10
Special committee told that the out-of-state tuition they are being charged more than covers costs

Interim School Supt. Falls Short of Gaining Independent Ballot Access; 7/13/10
Perdue appointee to succeed Kathy Cox fails to make ballot

Palin Endorsement Proving Controversial In Republican Race For Governor; 7/13/10
There's some blow-back, and it isn't just coming from Handel's rivals

House Watch: Some Other Races To Keep An Eye On Next Tuesday; 7/13/10
Zell's budget guru wants a seat in the House; the son of an ex-Dem lawmaker seeks election on the GOP team


Budget Year Ends With A Good Month Capping Off A Bad Year; 7/12/10

Revenue up 3.89 percent in June, but year ends 9.1 percent down



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Handel Ad Rips Deal As 'Corrupt Relic of Washington'

By Dick Pettys
InsiderAdvantage Georgia

(7/30/10) Karen Handel went up on TV with a rip-snortin’ new ad that labels runoff rival Nathan Deal “a corrupt relic of Washington, D.C.” while portraying Handel as “a conservative reformer.”

FULL STORY


Inside The Numbers: Matt Towery's National Column

Georgia Governor's Race Could Add To PowerChicks Trend

By Matt Towery
(C) Creators. com

(7/29/10) The Sarah Palin Express may be gaining even more steam, at least within the Republican Party. Another of her "Mama Grizzlies," Georgia's former secretary of state Karen Handel, on July 20 emerged from obscurity in the polls to take the most votes in the GOP general primary election for governor.

FULL STORY

The only poll that counts is the last one before the election. What good is a poll taken two weeks out? Would you rely on the odds of a football game two weeks before the game? What if the star quarterback broke his legs two days before kickoff?

We have an unequaled record of polling the winners of Georgia political races based on the last poll taken. Consider that InsiderAdvantage:

  • Was the only pollster to show Sonny Perdue tied with Roy Barnes in the 2002 general election governor's race (WXIA-TV, October 2002)
  • Accurately polled the winners of the Democratic primary and the general election in the 2002 governor's race
  • Was the only pollster to show John McCain tied with Mike Huckabee in the 2008 Gerogia Republican presidential primary (Huckabee narrowly won)
  • Accurately polled that there would be a runoff in the 2008 US Senate race in Georgia, and accurately polled the winner of the runoff
  • Accurately polled that there would be a runoff in the 2009 Atlanta mayor's race, and accurately polled the winner of the runoff to within six-tenths of one percent
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    InsiderAdvantage/WSB-TV Poll: Handel Surges Ahead Of GOP Pack; 7/16/10

    InsiderAdvantage / WSB-TV Poll: Barnes May Win Without a Runoff; 7/9/10

    InsiderAdvantage/WSB-TV Poll: Handel, Oxendine Neck-And-Neck; 7/5/10

    InsiderAdvantage/WSB-TV Poll: Oxendine Still Leads The GOP Field; 5/20/10

    InsiderAdvantage/WSB-TV Poll: Georgians Want Jessica Deported; 5/19/10

    Barnes Still Has Big Lead Among Dems; 4/8/10

    Odds Good That Ox Will Make GOP Gubernatorial Runoff; 4/7/10

    Race For GOP Gubernatorial Nomination Is Anyone's To Win; 5/14/09

    Atlanta Mayoral Race Wide Open; 5/14/09

    Perdue Stronger Than SurveyUSA Poll Suggests; 4/22/09


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    Tom Baxter:
    An Informed Electorate? Not Yet; 6/29/10

    Matt Towery's Inside The Numbers: Americans Aren't Buying Economic Recovery Story; 6/25/10

    Matt Towery: Can The Ox Win Without A Runff? Will Handel Seek Palin Help? 6/23/10

    Matt Towery: Grading The Ads; 6/22/10



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