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Dem Candidate For Ag Commissioner Wants To Legalize Horse Betting; 9/10/10
Could add 20K jobs, generate impact of $1 billion, says J.B. Powell

Matt Towery: Finally,a Great Ad; Isakson Scores a Touchdown; 9/9/10
Upbeat ad is best I've seen of political season, shows why Isakson is the pro

Just Leave It Alone, Business Tells Tax Reform Commission; 9/9/10
Current system does not impede growth, heavy hitters say

Rob Teilhet Will Replace Mack Crawford At Public Defenders Council; 9/8/10
Teilhet was unsuccessful candidate for Democratic nomination as attorney general

Chip Rogers: Internal Poll Shows Nathan Deal Surging; 9/8/10
Memo to caucus also seeks to rally support for GOP school supe candidate, John Barge

State Tax Collections Up For Third Straight Month; 9/8/10
But it's a little skewed: a 'bad' August 2009 makes August 2010 look really good

State Your Point - An Online Debate: Roy Barnes Record On Education Vs. The GOP Record; 9/8/10
Both sides trying to convince teachers they aren't as bad as they remember or think

Deal Rolls Out Low-Budget Education Plan; 9/8/10
Based on input from teachers, he says

Deal Tax Disclosure Raises More Questions; 9/7/10
Not as transparent as Barnes

New Barnes Ad: What's Deal Hiding? 9/7/10
Labels former congressman "too corrupt"

The Past Is Prologue? Maybe. Maybe Not; 9/6/10
Barnes has learned from Perdue's 2002 strategy, but is the game still the same?

Deal Releases Portions Of His Income Tax Returns; 9/3/10
But disclosure raises more questions than it answers

Matt Towery's Inside The Numbers: It's Beck's Rally But Hannity's War; 9/3/10
This is the year Beck humiliated mainstream media; Maybe Hannity can claim victory soon, too

Barnes Campaign Returns Fire Over Republican Governors' Association Ad; 9/3/10
No truth in it, Barnes campaign says while raising ethics issue again against Deal

Matt Towery: Can One President Pull A Good Man Down? 9/2/10
So is Roy Barnes a dead duck? Not necessarily if this very smart man stays smart

InsiderAdvantage/WSB-TV Poll: Obama A Huge Drag On Roy Barnes; 9/2/10
Towery: Barnes strategy must be, 'I'm really a Republican'

Johnny Isakson Gets No Love From Bob Barr; 9/1/10
Barr endorses Libertarian nominee in U.S. Senate race

Next Step May Be Prayer For Cash-Strapped State Agencies; 9/1/10
They've tried just about everything else

North Georgia's Surprising Political Power; 8/31/10
To some extent, clout has leapfrogged metro Atlanta

A New Wrinkle In The Fierce Battle For The Teacher Vote; 8/31/10
Barnes, Deal vying to capture that important sector

Never Mind Nathan Deal, In Some Respects This Election Is A Perdue-Barnes Redux; 8/31/10
Case in point: the RGA ads, the second of which began appearing this week

Randy Evans: There Is No Federal Grand Jury Investigation Of Nathan Deal; 8/31/10
"There will be no September or October surprise," Deal attorney says

INSIDERADVANTAGE EDITORIAL
Just How Bad Is The PR Advice The Fox Theater Is Getting? So Bad It Warrants a Bad Review; 8/31/10
Theater board wants to give heave-ho to man who helped saved the theater from the wrecking ball and a fire

INSIDERADVANTAGE ANALYSIS
Governor's Race 2010: Battle For W. Paces Ferry Mansion Won't Be Waged Below The Gnat Line; 8/30/10

Metro and exurban counties are where the real struggle will take place

Will Deal Tax Returns See Daylight? 8/30/10
Yes and as early as Tuesday, commentator says; Deal campaign disputes timetable

The Legislative Brain Drain; 8/30/10
Attrition is profound in some years, and this is one of them

Interstate 3 Back In The News With Deal, Barnes Split Over Project; 8/27/10
Controversial in some quarters, proposed road would go from Savannah to Augusta to Knoxville

How Many Points Will Barnes Have Up By Labor Day? 8/27/10
Two new ads rip Deal on ethics

Max Wood Gets Perdue Appointment; 8/27/10
Former AG candidate will head Office of Administrative Hearings

Tax Reform Commission Plowing Into Thick Weeds; 8/27/10
Panel is examining tax code and seeking ways to modernize it

Matt Towery's Inside The Numbers: Come November, Will There Be A Democrat Left In The Forest? 8/26/10
Starting to see signs that even the U.S. Senate could go GOP this year

Double-Dip Recession Possible But Not Probable For Georgia; 8/26/10
GSU economic forecasting unit looks, instead, for very modest growth

Carol Porter, Georganna Sinkfield Not On WIN List Of Endorsed Candidates; 8/25/10
They didn't return questionnaires, chair says

Not Everyone Cheering Georgia's Race To Top Win; 8/24/10
Joe Martin is one, calling it little more than a Band-Aid

George T. Smith Dead At 93; 8/24/10
He was only man to serve in all three branches of Georgia government

Georgia A Winner In Latest Round Of Race To Top Competition; 8/24/10
Worth an estimated $400 million extra over four years

State Wins Battle With Feds Over Voter Verification Law; 8/24/10
Feds withdraw objection, grant preclearance

Supreme Court Battle A Fight Over Power Of Federal Government? 8/24/10
One of David Nahmias' challengers hopes to make it so

Nathan Deal, Privatization And The Ethics Committee Report; 8/23/10
Another look at the report that may loom large over his campaign

A New Communications Director For Casey Cagle; 8/23/10
Ben Fry gets the call


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INSIDER POLL ARCHIVES

* Beginning January 2007

InsiderAdvantage Polling

Obama and the United States of China

By Matt Towery
(C) Creators.com

(9/10/10) Amazing. President Barack Obama's Democratic Party keeps plummeting in the generic polls that measure Americans' party preferences. Yet the president has taken what looks like nothing less than a calculated move to assure the destruction of Democratic rule in Congress, all supposedly in the name of getting the nation moving again.

FULL STORY


Barnes Lobs New Missiles At Deal In Rolling Out Ethics Plan

By Tom Baxter
InsiderAdvantage Georgia

(9/10/10) Roy Barnes fired off a new round of ethics proposals Thursday, including a few aimed directly at his opponent, Nathan Deal. Standing in front of the Capitol, which he said has become a place of “secret, inside deals,” Barnes said the state should go farther than it did in this year’s ethics bill, putting the legislature under the Open Records Law, eliminating all lobbyist and vendor gifts and enacting anti-corruption laws “at least as strong as the federal RICO laws.”

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?

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  • 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
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    InsiderAdvantage/WSB-TV Poll: Deal Leads Barnes By 4 Points; Isakson Poised To Win; 8/20/10

    InsiderAdvantage/WSB-TV Poll: Handel And Deal Tied In Race To Finish; 8/6/10

    InsiderAdvantage/WSB-TV Poll: Handel Surge Continues; 7/19/10

    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


    RECENT OFFERINGS FROM OUR COLUMNISTS

    Dr. Charles Bullock: Many Factors Came Into Play In Runoff; 8/17/10

    Matt Towery: Nathan Deal's Biggest Problem; 8/13/10

    Dr. Charles Bullock: The Odds In Next Week's Runoffs; 8/3/10

    Matt Towery: Handel-Deal May Be Closer Than Many Think; 8/2/10

    Dr. Charles Bullock: 'Friends And Neighbors' Politics in the Georgia Campaigns; 7/27/10

    Matt Towery's Inside The Numbers: Mama Can't Find A Doctor And Other Fallout From Health Reform; 7/23/10

    Tom Baxter: Lots Of Runoff Combinations Possible In GOP Primary



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