Protesters in Georgia and around the country reacted negatively to Tuesday’s election of Republican Donald Trump, staging mostly peaceful demonstrations in Georgia and around the country. Students at Emory University staged a “march through campus in SILENCE and solidarity for the healing of hate in our country,” according to a Facebook post by the Young
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,
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
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
It’s 7 o’clock, and as of now, the polls are closed in Georgia, although some will remain open for a while, until the last voter in line has cast a ballot. Now, it’s just a matter of time until the results start coming in, both here in Georgia and nationwide. Most pundits were predicting a
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it will place poll monitors in 67 jurisdictions in 28 states for tomorrow’s election. Here in Georgia, the department will have personnel in Fulton, Gwinnett and Hancock counties. The department’s monitors will be fluent in Spanish and Asian languages, and will look for cases of racial or
A statewide poll of 1,200 likely Georgia voters shows Republican Donald Trump leading Democrat Hillary Clinton, 49-46%, with Libertarian Gary Johnson getting 3.1% of the vote. 2.2% remain undecided. The same poll predicts Republican Johnny Isakson will win without a runoff in his race, with 52% of the vote. Democrat Jim Barksdale would get 41%,
You’ve probably heard about the fact that many conservative-leaning newspapers have endorsed Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Papers including the Arizona Republic, Cincinnati Enquirer, Dallas Morning News, and the San Diego Union Tribune made rare endorsements of the Democratic candidate, some for the first time ever. Our friend Loren Collins, who
There hasn’t been a lot of polling done on U.S. House seats that are contested on Tuesday. Landmark Communications decided to do some polling on its own to determine the status of four races, in the 3rd, 8th, 11th, and 12th distrricts, and it appears Republicans are on the way to winning each one. The
Gwinnett County has often been cited as the next big county to turn Democratic. Many have said that the Peach State won’t turn blue until Gwinnett does. Its population as a whole became majority minority several years back, and this year, for the first time, whites make up a minority of registered voters, although not
