Today's Political Insider says certain high-placed Republicans have concluded that Cox represents a substantial demographic threat to Perdue.

Today's Political Insider reports that some GOP strategists believe Gov. Sonny Perdue's re-election could easily hang on support from the fickle suburban women of metro Atlanta — the state's most important pocket of swing voters.

Because Cathy Cox, like Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, polls extremely well in the suburbs, these high-placed Republicans have begun to consider Cox, the current secretary of state, to be the Democrats' likely nominee for governor next year.