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Donald Trump's soldiers in Georgia are waking up -- perhaps too late -- to what's at stake on Saturday, when Republicans gather by congressional district to pick more than half of the 76 delegates and alternates who will attend July's presidential nominating convention in Cleveland.logo-all This morning, Trump state director Brandon Phillips sent out an email that was one-half alarm bell and one-half plea. It included this paragraph: "Mr. Trump won Georgia by more than 14 points, almost 200,000 more votes than his next closest rival. He also carried 155 counties out of 159. Ted Cruz didn't win a single...

With Jimmy Carter, Newt Gingrich, and Sam Nunn all in political retirement, Georgia's most visible public figures are two U.S. House members that opponents love to hate: Republican Bob Barr and Democrat Cynthia McKinney. Improbably enough, both were defeated handily in yesterday's Georgia primaries.Barr was gerrymandered into a fight with colleague John Linder in a new overwhelmingly Republican north-metro Atlanta's seventh district. Right up until the polls closed, political insiders were split on how the race would turn out. No one predicted the huge, two-to-one Linder win. Linder was expected to benefit from crossover voting from the tiny group...

Georgia’s fiery Republican Rep. Bob Barr (Ga.) has never been particularly popular among his Democratic colleagues. He was, after all, the first member of Congress to call for former President Clinton’s impeachment and has never cut his opponents much slack on issues that concern him. What’s more, the man’s ubiquitous. He fights for his beliefs in committee, on the House floor and in the media. As a result, he’s been a target ever since his 1994 arrival in town and this time they believe they may be able to get him. Oh, they know he won’t be taken out in...