Yesterday's primaries, and the limits of extremism | Michael Tomasky

So it's come down to this, in America in 2010. You can probably be a birther and become governor of Georgia, but can you call a bicycling program a UN conspiracy and become governor of Colorado?

That, friends, is what has become of us. In Georgia, there was primary for the Republican nomination for governor. So far, it appears that Nathan Deal has a slight edge over Karen Handel, by less than a percentage point. The race attracted a lot of attention because it became a kind of surrogate...