May 22, 2018 3:09 PM
Election Day Thread
We are under 4 hours until the polls close today. If you haven’t voted yet, I hope you will definitely do so.
This thread is for talking about elections in Georgia from statewide to congressional to local. Got some predictions? Share them here so that you can brag (or groan) later on. Want to talk until after midnight about election stuff. Here ya go. Just keep it about elections in Georgia, pretty please.
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Lawton is a graduate of Georgia Southern University (the GSU) with a degree in Information Technology. He has held numerous positions within the Georgia Republican Party throughout the years.
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My predictions
Governor:
R: Cagle vs. Kemp in runoff
D: Abrams wins big
Lt. Gov.
R: David Shafer
D: No earthly, so I will say James
SOS:
R: Josh McKoon
D: John Barrow (Ugh)
SOS:
R: Josh McKoon (Ugh)
D: John Barrow (Ugh)
FTFY.
Looks like this is the link to get the results. http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA/74658/Web02-state.198804/#/ I have been seeing a lot of no votes for T-SPLOST in Dade. But that might just be a group who are mostly against it. It was voted down in November of last year.
Clarke-Athens saw a record early turnout, nearly 9% of RVs. They have contested mayor and commissioner races .
More than 10% of Oconee RVs voted early. Gopers will choose from two who got smoked in last year’s special for Georgia House to see who will go against the donk incumbent.
Jody Hice faces two opps for Congress and donks choose from three to face him.
It just struck me that having Kemp and Barrow on the ballot is pushing turnout too.
Gaines is running unopposed and will face incumbent Deborah Gonzalez, also unopposed, in the general. He’s joined the general goper scrum in talking about how conservative he really is, with the fillip that Gonzalez will never get anything done because the donks are a minority.
Once again I will make my quixotic plea for nonpartisan primaries. If for no other reason taxpayers should not be funding the mechanism by which the parties choose their candidates.
You mean like how England does their elections instead?
Supreme Court:
Write In – NoWay
What, no good guys?
This is for Kemp fans, or anyone else I guess. Kemp has reserved a ballroom at the downtown Athens Holiday Inn from 7PM-3AM. If you’re in town and at loose ends, drop by for some good clean fun.
I wonder if Jake and one of his daughters booked a room upstairs?
Are guns allowed?
It’s only 9pm, and about a quarter of results have come in, BUT I’m surprised that for Secretary of State Raffensperger and Belle Isle are leading and their home base of Fulton hasn’t even reported in yet. Was anyone else expecting the opposite? I thought it would be McKoon v Brockway all night long.
Raffenserger is a licensed PE, and with Kemp’s attempts to mess around with some of the state licensing boards in the last 8 years, he has a following among some of the more notable and more liability heavy professions. (For the record, 2 of my licenses need to be left to board control, the other 1, not so much)
Cagle and Kemp in a runoff? Another round of those ads!
Loser, yes. But my religion requires me to continue denying him service.
T-SPLOST shot down again in Dade. Deffenbaugh (I) outed by young buck Moore. Don’t know how I feel about the later.
Senate Minority Leader Steve Henson is neck and neck with his primary opponent right now. It looks like they are neck and neck with about half of the votes reported.
Steve Henson has won by about 100 votes against a primary challenger who has almost certainly spent $100,000 in under-the-table undisclosed campaign funds.
And Viola Davis, long-noted transparency and anticorruption activist, has easily displaced Earnest “Coach” Williams in the house while running a shoestring campaign.
I am flabbergasted.
It’s a rarity for a sitting judge to lose but Regina Quick was on the short end last night, 55-45. Quick was state rep before Deal appointed her to the Superior Court for Athens-Clarke and Oconee last summer. Much was made of locals rather than Atlanta pols determining who their judge should be. In a continuation of 2017’s shift to the left in Athens that saw progressive candidates sweep last night, it was adios, Judge Quick.
The post-Trump activists Athens for Everyone endorsed Norris. Some people have hinted they were worried about Mauldin’s background as prosecutor. Every A4E candidate won, most of them bigly.
Will she still wear her frowny face t-shirt?
Meanwhile in Chatham County…
http://www.savannahnow.com/news/20180522/buck-morgan-face-runoff-in-savannah-chatham-school-board-president-race
Is it unusual for a primary candidate for statewide office to not pull 10% in their own county?