The man who helped put the first Republican in the Governor’s mansion since Reconstruction is contemplating a run for the top job at the Georgia Republican Party, according to a story by Greg Bluestein of hte AJC. John Watson, who worked as a consultant to Governor Sonny Perdue’s campaign before becoming Perdue’s Chief of Staff,
Michael McNeely, GAGOP 1st Vice-Chair, has announced via Facebook his intention to run for GAGOP Chairman in 2017: “I have been asked several times this week whether I intend to run for Chairman of the Georgia GOP. I’m not one to be coy about something that important, so I wanted to put the question to
North Carolina voters are looking to choose between two men for governor: reelecting their Republican Governor Pat McCrory or electing Democrat Attorney General Roy Cooper. Generally, incumbents have an easier time with being reelected. Unfortunately for Governor McCrory, his reelection bid is a bit murky largely due to HB 2 (also known as “The Bathroom
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will hold a town hall at Kennesaw State University on behalf of the Trump-Pence campaign on Monday, September 12. Gingrich has a long history with KSU, including teaching history there at various intervals since 1993. The Trump campaign’s press release is below:
Over at Politics4Tomorrow, Austin Wagner takes a look at which State House and State Senate districts might be most vulnerable to flip from Republican to Democrat and vice-versa. To determine the districts most likely to flip, he starts with a vulnerability index developed by the DailyKos to determine winnable U.S. house and senate races, and
I was in Dalton on Tuesday for the campaign stop that Governor Mike Pence made to help rally support in what should be a red state in a normal presidential year. As we’ve seen, 2016 has been all but normal and extra mean by offing great people like Gene Wilder and Abe Vigoda (God rest
The Barrow County Republican Party held their 23rd annual Barbecue Saturday night, and as is their custom, they held a straw poll, this time for the 2018 governor’s race, despite the fact that there are no announced candidates for a vote that is two years away. The straw ballot contained seven names, plus undecided. The
Today’s Wall Street Journal takes a look at a study done by Facebook that examines what people who “like” one of the two major presidential candidates also “like” in areas of pop culture. For clarity, the study did not consider users who “liked” both candidates. The results were broken down by state, so it is
The Eleventh District Committee of the Georgia Republican Party is studying the possibility of having Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton removed from the Georgia ballot in November. The effort is based on an assumption that the former Secretary of State mishandled classified emails that were stored on her home server, and that under federal law,
Late last week, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump ventured into new territory by making a specific appeal to African Americans. At his speech Friday in Dimondale Michigan, Trump asked blacks, “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58% of your youth is unemployed — what the hell do you
