Georgia Bloggers: Politics

The following list represents the Georgia’s Blogs on the blogroll here at Georgia on My Mind that discuss politics on a daily or regular basis. I may have missed one or two on the blogroll. This list is not cast in stone so please let me know if something should be added or deleted.

Article of Faith

aTypical Joe

Banter in Atlanter

Bill Shipp Online

Blog For Democracy

Blue Heart of Dixie

Buzz Blog

Cadillac Tight

Confessions of a Political Junkie

Considerettes

Crackersquire

Cup O' Joe

Decatur-Dekalb

Decatur Metro

Dora-Blog

Drifting Through the Grift

Georgia Back Roads

Georgia Federation of Democratic Women Grapevine

Georgia Legislative Watch

Georgia Politics Unfiltered

Georgia Porkbusters

Georgia Women Vote

Good Will Hinton

Grabbing Sand

Hot Flash Report

inDecatur

Jason Pye

Joeventures

Metro Political Report

Mitch Skandalakis

New Century Politics

Newsmanbook.com

Oconee Politics

Peach Pundit

Political Insider/AJC

Political Vine

Radical Georgia Moderate

Shelbinator

The Georgia Conservative

The M Theory

The Other Athens

The Southern Soapbox

Tondee's Tavern

Young Democrats of Atlanta

Do you know about a Georgia blog regarding politics I haven’t listed? Please contact me at gamind@mail.com to let me know, or to advise any corrections that need to be made.

Where Are the Campaign Signs?

I went and voted this morning….there’s my wonderful “I Voted” sticker to prove it. I’m wearing it as my badge of honor today and hopefully to remind those that aren’t normally involved in the democratic process to take part.

My daughter’s high school is used as a polling place. Usually the road leading up to it and the public park where I vote is littered with hundreds of campaign signs for every candidate. I even thought about it yesterday thinking campaign organizers in this area must be very busy out putting all the extra signs close to polling locations.

Today…..hardly a sign. Only two candidates had signs out in force. I saw many Ron Paul signs and several Mike Huckabee signs. There wasn’t a Democrat sign in the bunch and McCain and Romney were very absent.

Very strange.

Also it seems Neil Boortz and I have something in common. As I left my polling place he was discussing his website where he has had a poll up regarding the various candidates. His webwench, as he refers to his webmaster, had left off Ron Paul. This has resulted in hundreds of emails of complaint from the legion of supporters for Dr. Paul.

Yesterday over at History Is Elementary I posted a very simple lesson plan I had used to provide an opportunity for students to hone their comparing and contrasting skills. It was an innocent enough plan, or so I thought. I included various videos from the viable candidates that are left.

I left out Ron Paul. Oops!

Heavy sigh……..

So Long Speaker Murphy

The last gavel has sounded for Tom Murphy, long-time Speaker for the Geogia General Assembly. He was wonderfully cast for his role. I don’t think anyone could have played him better. The picture seen here is from 1975 and features Tom Murphy with two other people Georgians would recognize……George Busbee and Zell Miller.

The New Georgia Encyclopedia article for Speaker Murphy can be found here.