The Macon Telegraph offers this editorial, which begins: “It’s not particularly surprising – actually, it was predictable – that Georgia’s Republicans would oppose renewal of the Voting Rights Act even though that opposition doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in a very hot place of succeeding. Even President Bush and his attorney general, as well as Republican and Democratic congressional leaders, support renewal the act, which is to expire in 2007, for another 25 years. Section 5 of that act, mandating federal oversight and preclearance of voting laws adopted in Southern states, almost certainly will be approved.”