Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition, has become the first political casualty of the Jack Abramoff lobbying and money scandals with his loss yesterday in Georgia’s lieutenant governor’s race to a previously unknown state Senator. —David Donnelly in Alternet

Of course his opponent is no prize. Casey Cagle is considered one of the most conservative of Georgia's many conservative state senators. But at least he has no ambitions to be President that I know of.

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