Tag: Cobb County

  • Meanwhile, in Cobb County

    Cobb is hardly a progressive utopia, but it is quickly becoming the front line in the battle to turn Georgia blue.  Obama garnered 45% of the vote in Cobb County in 2008-up from John Kerry’s 37%-and 6 of Cobb’s 14 state house seats are now in Democratic hands.  It goes without saying that Democrat Pat…

  • Men in trees

    Many of you will no doubt remember how some elected officials in Cobb County were so virulently anti-gay back in the 1990s that one of the events in the Atlanta Olympics was yanked from the county and held elsewhere. Well, it looks like gays are getting a little payback in Marietta.