When inboxes start filling up with desperate messages from Democratic fundraisers, one thing’s for certain.
You wouldn’t exactly say this has been an issues-driven Senate race, but largely because Republican challenger Herschel Walker brings the subject up so frequently, energy and climate issues have been central to this campaign.
Rep. David Ralston’s announcement that he was stepping down as House speaker was overshadowed by Election Day four days later, which is probably what Ralston intended.
At the very last minute, begrudgingly no doubt, former President Donald Trump endorsed Brian Kemp, the governor he’d vowed to bring down, including him in a list of his recommendations at a rally in Ohio ...
Ray Strother, who died last month at the age of 81, told me a story more than three decades ago that still comes to mind nearly daily. It’s a fitting time to retell it, as ...
We need some new terminology, maybe even another tense, for that floating time between the beginning of early voting and Election Day.
How do we account for the surge in early voting, which is running close to the early turnout in Georgia’s presidential election of 2020 and nearly 60 percent higher than the 2018 turnout? It’s a ...
By Tom Baxter It’s funny how political logic can be turned on its ear in a couple of days. Throughout the first part of the U.S. Senate campaign, there has been all kinds of speculation ...
Before we get into where Herschel Walker’s campaign stands this week, we should pause for a moment to reflect on why it took so long for it to get there.
President Joe Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, potential rivals in 2024, made nice to each other last week as Hurricane Ian ripped across Florida and into the Carolinas, and by all reports the federal ...
Last week, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced that his office was replacing the election equipment in Coffee County to the tune of around $400,000, an act he said “puts to an end any argument ...
Draw a circle of three or four miles diameter with the WellStar Atlanta Medical Center at the center and you will have encompassed an enormous amount of territory, demographically, historically, culturally and politically. Not to ...
By Tom Baxter In hearings over the past couple of weeks, a legislative committee has begun to sort out the issues that are going to come with the ever-increasing electrification of Georgia. There are quite ...
By Tom Baxter When future generations try to figure out what in the world was going on in our era, they’re going to have a particularly hard time understanding Lindsey Graham. Over 28 years in ...
Looking back, the tipoff story of this summer was — go figure — the one about Jill Biden and breakfast tacos.
The shadow of Donald Trump will fall heavily on many races across the country this fall, as ardent defenders of the former president square off against Democrats and new controversies continue to unfurl. But not ...
By Tom Baxter The war in Ukraine has faded from the headlines as this year has worn on and domestic developments have crowded to the front. But one of the war’s byproducts, clips from Russian ...
By Tom Baxter With the conclusion for the summer of the Jan. 6 Committee hearings in Washington and a flurry of activity in Fulton County, national attention turned last week to Georgia as Donald Trump’s ...
Among the Republican Senate candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump, Herschel Walker has a dubious distinction. Walker had the best second-quarter fundraising total of any candidate in this group, raising $6.2 million.
here used to be a pretty reliable political rule of thumb that said the popularity of the party in the White House tracked contrarily with the up-and-down movement of the price of a gallon of ...
Tom Baxter
Tom Baxter has written about politics and the South for more than four decades. He was national editor and chief political correspondent at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and later edited The Southern Political Report, an online publication, for four years. Tom was the consultant for the 2008 election night coverage sponsored jointly by Current TV, Digg and Twitter, and a 2011 fellow at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. He has written about the impact of Georgia’s and Alabama's immigration laws in reports for the Center for American Progress. Tom and his wife, Lili, have three adult children and seven grandchildren.
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