Teri posted earlier about how Hillary Clinton was able to defeat Donald Trump in Cobb County, and how the Democrats got a lot closer to Republicans than they had previously in other races. I wanted to do the same thing for Gwinnett, plus do a post mortem on some of the other races. Sometimes, though,
On this date in 1801, the state of Tennessee outlawed the practice of dueling. In 1969, though, “Sesame Street” debuted for the first time. Peaches Georgia State School Superintendent on the failure of Amendment 1 Georgia’s voter turnout numbers offer historical data More than 1,000,000 education programs have been downloaded under new GDOC education initiative Georgia
State Senator Charlie Bethel (R-SD54) received an appointment to the Georgia Court of Appeals by Governor Nathan Deal today effective January 1, 2017. Many congratulations to the Senator on his appointment. I know he’ll do well. Senator Bethel, who was also on the short list to be appointed to the Georgia Supreme Court, did not
Putting aside the grim electoral college results of the night, there were a lot of positives for Georgia Democrats last night. Let’s start with the performance of Hillary Clinton in Cobb County (details at Teri’s post) and Gwinnett County. Ruminate on that for a second. Neither Barack Obama (2012) nor Michelle Nunn broke 43% here. This
Earlier this morning, Charlie wrote a post speculating on how Georgians might play a part in a new Trump administration. One of the people he mentioned was Senator David Perdue, who was one of President-elect Trump’s earliest supporters and who met with Trump to plot how the businessman could appropriate Perdue’s outsider strategy in his
The dust from yesterday’s election has yet to settle – but there’s one major story that’s emerged, and that’s a blue Cobb County. Y’all are familiar with Cobb County. It’s the county that famously lost its chance of having an Olympics venue – or even a glimpse of the torch run – in the 1990s
America has a very new, very different president today. Donald J Trump, businessman, entrepreneur, entertainer and most importantly, not a politician will become the 45th president on January 20th. Back in February I was asked to write a post in favor of Trump because I was basically the only person available who was willing to
We are starting to get reactions from Georgia’s representatives in the U.S. House and Senat over President Elect Donald Trump’s upset win Tuesday night over Hillary Clinton. Senator Johnny Isakson: I congratulate Donald Trump and Mike Pence on winning a hard-fought campaign. The genius of America is that the real power always rests with the
A lot of folks (and me) didn’t give the possibility of “President Trump” a lot of serious thought. Sure, we talked about it in theory, but there are a lot of folks who are going to have to get up to speed on a transition that is already underway. This transition should be kind to
The magnitude of this upset is stunning. It’s frankly going to take a while to set in. For some of us, more than others. Beware of media narratives that put this in partisan tones. Yes, Republicans made a clean sweep (White House, Senate, House). But if you choose to view this election in purely partisan
