10 District Republican Rep. Jody Hice will have competition in November. After making it through the May primary without opposition, Hice will go up against Leonard Ware of Gwinnett County, according to a story in the Athens Banner Herald. Ware is a Democrat who will run as an independent. For him, a big issue is
A press release received from Drew Ferguson’s campaign states that Ferguson has garnered the support of four former candidates he faced in the GA-3 GOP congressional primary on May 24. Ferguson garnered 26.77% of the votes in the seven man race and will face State Sen. Mike Crane (26.93%) in the July 26, 2016 primary
This week’s Courier Herald column: A funny thing happened on the way to voting “them all out” last Tuesday. After the votes were all counted, not a single Republican incumbent congressman or state legislator was voted out of office. Only two were pushed into runoffs statewide, and even then by a handful of votes in
Being a district chairman, that automatically makes me a member of the #RINOEstablishment, so I might as well claim the title and say that I was generally happy with the results of our Georgia Republican primary. We avoided conspiracy and cupcakes in the US Senate race, and I’m glad to see three of Georgia’s most
Tuesday’s party primaries largely set the table for the November elections, with a few races remaining to be decided in July runoffs. With inter=party races settled, it’s time to take aim at the other party, and Georgia GOP and Democratic party leaders didn’t waste any time. Georgia Republican Party Chairman John Padgett issued this statement
The time has drawn nigh for the closing of the polls across Georgia. It is time for political geeks and nerds to get excited about the results that will most definitely be painstakingly slow in coming in. Browsers will be refreshed. Races will be predicted and called all across Twitter and Facebook by numerous political pundits
I think it’s pretty much a guarantee that there sill be an issue with voting, ballots, or a precinct that mars Election Day for some number of voters. Typically, the screw up will occur in Fulton County, which is in a perpetual race with DeKalb County to see which one can report its election results
No, I’m not going to try to run down every contested Georgia House race. It’s difficult enough to even try to pretend from Atlanta I have a true understanding of far flung races. By the time you divide Georgia into 180 equal pieces “state” politics becomes quite local. As such, this is just a preview
It’s a relatively active campaign year for Georgia’s Republican Senate caucus. If my quick scan of the Secretary of State’s website is correct, there are 29 Senate races with an uncontested GOP candidate, three open competitive races, and NINE! with incumbents facing a primary challenge. That’s not quite a quarter of the caucus facing primary
5 PM Vote Update: Each of the monitored precincts have fewer votes than they did at 2 PM in 2014. The two precincts without the open House race are the furthest behind 2014 results. While I was driving around, I heard Sandra Parrish of WSB Radio saying that fewer than 50,000 votes had been cast
