Political Animal – Meanwhile, Down in Georgia….

But Price’s withdrawal creates a heaven-sent opportunity for another well-known potential GOP candidate, who is now rumored to be in the wings: former Secretary of State Karen Handel. Not only does Handel share Price’s metro Atlanta base, but her brief tour of ideological martyrdom as vice president of the Komen Foundation (which ended in 2012 when she was forced from the job after massive protests against the split with Planned Parenthood she engineered) has removed the blemish that probably cost her the 2010 Georgia gubernatorial nomination, the suspicion that she was not 100% antichoice (she opposed an effort to radically limit IV fertilization clinics in the state).

A Handel/Broun runoff, which looks like a decent bet at this stage, would be wild and wooly sho nuff.

But thanks to developments on the Democratic side, Handel’s likely entry sets up another interesting possibility as well.

Earlier this week U.S. Representative John Barrow announced he would not be running for the Senate in 2014, reportedly because he could not be guaranteed a cleared field for the Democratic nomination. That means the field probably would be cleared for another much-mentioned potential candidate, Michelle Nunn, a nationally renowned civic entrepreneur with a might handy last name (her father is former Sen. Sam Nunn, still a Georgia political legend).

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