The legislation dubbed "Georgia's Promise"

Yesterday's Political Insider informed us that Democrats are seeking to drive a wedge with Republicans with a Senate bill providing that all high school students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their class would be guaranteed a spot at the state university of their choice.

The Political Insider says the bill is intended as a balm for rural whites who think the state's flagship university has been captured by high-flying students from the suburbs north of Atlanta.

Today I read in InsiderAdvantage Georgia that House Democratic Leader DuBose Porter of Dublin, who will push the House version of the Democratic legislation, said freshman admissions to the University of Georgia from Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett Counties have run as high as 44 percent.

InsiderAdvantage Georgia also noted that the issue that could divide Republicans along suburban-versus-rural lines.