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The Company You Keep

Tom Crawford,

Do we want to put ourselves in the company of progressive Southern states like Virginia and North Carolina or are we satisfied to keep company with states like South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi?

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Political Roundup: November 2006

Tom Crawford,

A slender Reed: Ralph Reed was effectively banished from the state's political scene with his crushing defeat by Casey Cagle in the GOP primary for lieutenant governor, but his influence here will live on after he is gone. An anti-tax…

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We Do Things Our Own Way

Tom Crawford,

Does Governor Perdue's smashing re-election victory set the stage for a triumphant second term, or is it a high point from which he, like other second-termers, slides slowly into lame duck status?

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