Politics
November 12, 2008 -
As Timothy Noah at Slate and others have pointed out, President-elect Barack Obama didn't do great with white voters.
November 12, 2008 -
There's a lot of astoundingly superficial and unhelpful analysis floating around about what the 2008 elections mean for the South.
November 11, 2008 -
The Secret Service is blaming Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's harsh attacks on Barack Obama in the final weeks of the campaign for triggering a dramatic spike in death threats against the future president -- but that revelation hasn't stopped a Georgia politician from further ratchet
November 11, 2008 -
As Facing South reported earlier this month, Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel (R) sent letters to 4,770 registered voters telling them that they would have to cast
November 11, 2008 -
As we all know, in the South there are lots of white Democrats who vote for Republican presidents. Ever since the 1960s, the Civil Rights Act and Nixon's Southern Strategy, Republicans have succeeded in peeling off a growing share of presidential votes from white Democrats in the region.
November 11, 2008 -
Labor union members and workers looking for economic change voted in large numbers for Barak Obama this month. The union vote helped secure white middle-class voters for Obama in battleground industrial states like Pennsylvania and Ohio,
November 11, 2008 -
Bloggers in Georgia have been questioning the large undervote in the Nov. 4 Senate race.