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Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 24, 2018 27 Comments
The Washington Post is facing backlash over its "analysis" piece entitled "What’s up with all those black men who voted for the Republican in the Georgia governor’s race?". The article begins with the obligatory attack on white women, but we aren't the "real" target this time.  Instead, the author is enraged that between 8% and 11% of black men voted for Democrat Stacey Abrams' opponent, Republican Brian Kemp.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on November 16, 2018 16 Comments
Friday, Georgia Democrat candidate for Governor Stacy Abrams acknowledged that she had not and would not win, but refused to concede. Similar to her election night speech, Abrams criticized Kemp and claimed he is "leveraging his role as the state’s top elections official to suppress voters," according to the AJC.

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 16, 2018 24 Comments
Georgia's Democrat governor candidate Stacey Abrams' campaign has started to prepare to push for a new election for the governor's race. The campaign's argument in court "would be that as many as 18,000 voters could have been disenfranchised." From the Associated Press:
The Democrat’s longshot strategy relies on a statute that’s never been used in such a high-stakes contest. It is being discussed as Georgia elections officials appear to be on the cusp of certifying Republican Brian Kemp as the winner of a bitterly fought campaign that’s been marred by charges of electoral malfeasance.

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 15, 2018 20 Comments
You think it's chaos in Florida, but have you looked at the Georgia governor race? If Republican Brian Kemp defeats Democrat Stacey Abrams, you can expect a war. The Democrats have prepared to scream STOLEN ELECTION if Kemp wins. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has added fuel to this fire along with failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). All of this has come to light after a judge ruled on an Abram's lawsuit that favors both candidates, which caused both campaign's to yell victory.

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 13, 2018 28 Comments
On November 5, Common Cause Georgia filed a lawsuit that accused Georgia governor candidate Brian Kemp, who held the office of secretary of state until he resigned last week, "of acting recklessly after a vulnerability in Georgia’s voter registration database was exposed shortly before the election." The organization claimed that Kemp's "actions increased the risk that eligible voters could be illegally removed from the voter registration database or have registration information illegally altered." Judge Amy Totenberg of the Federal District Court in Atlanta ordered officials to wait until Friday to certify the governor's race and do all they can to protect provisional ballots.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2017 55 Comments
What are the implications of Republican Karen Handel's solid win (53-47 as of this writing) over Democratic darling Jon Ossoff in the Georgia Sixth District Special Election? Democrats came into election day with high hopes, with Ossoff leading in almost every poll, tens of millions of dollars flowing in from around the country, and celebrities urging an anti-Trump vote. Yet the Republican won the District by a larger margin than Trump did in the presidential election.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on June 20, 2017 24 Comments
We've been following the special election for Georgia's sixth Congressional District. Vacated by Rep. Tom Price when he left to serve as HHS Secretary, the race has drawn national attention. GA-6 is Newt Gingrich's old district and has been in Republican hands since 1979. For better or worse, Democrats have pitched the race as a referendum on President Trump's agenda. GA-6 though was not a die-hard Trump district in the 2016 election. Trump only won by 1.5 points as most of the district's voters chose Rubio in the Republican primary. But so desperate are Democrats to find a mandate to oppose Trump, this is the route they've chosen.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on June 03, 2017 15 Comments
Early voting began Tuesday in one of the country's hottest races -- the race to replace former Rep. Tom Price (who left to head HHS) in Georgia's sixth Congressional district. The young and inexperienced Democrat Jon Ossoff faces a tough challenger in Republican Karen Handel. Democrats and political media alike have pitched the race as a referendum on President Trump and his agenda. Because the race has garnered so much national attention, super PACs from both sides of the aisle are dropping bank on ads, hoping to sway voters to their cause. The Congressional Leadership Fund, a Republican PAC, created an ad, linking Kathy Griffin to Ossoff.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on May 23, 2017 8 Comments
Monday, a poll was released showing Jon Ossoff, the Democratic contender in the upcoming special election in Georgia's sixth Congressional district, up seven percentage points over Republican candidate, Karen Handel. Conducted by Survey USA, the poll surveyed 700 voters, 549 of which were presumed to have voted in the runoff election. Margin of error is set at 4.3 points. Where the other 150 voters went, I'm not sure, because the poll is based on 549, 30 of whom indicated they were undecided, leaving 519 surveyed voters who'd made up their minds. Of the remaining 519, 40 more people have already pledged their support for Ossoff than Handel. 239 said they'll vote for Handel and 279 plan to vote for Ossoff.
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