More than a week after voting ended, demonstrators continue to protest the results of the election of Donald Trump to the presidency. In Atlanta, many of the protests occurred in and around the Georgia State University campus, including at least one event initiated by GSU students, according to the Georgia State Signal. Two campus groups,
We know who won last Tuesday’s presidential election, but that doesn’t tell us the entire scope of the vote. What about the write-in candidates, you say? No worries, we have the list of write in votes for President in Gwinnett County, all 138 pages of them. That works out to 4,819 write in votes, a
This week’s Courier Herald column: In last week’s column, I suggested that in the grand scheme of things, Tuesday’s election was not that important. I wrote it Friday before the election. I wrote it in the one quiet time I had that week, fully expecting it to reach a disappointed Republican audience last week. I
According to the latest numbers at the Georgia Secretary of State website, Donald Trump got 2,085,068 votes in Georgia. That’s only about 7,000 more votes than Romney took in 2012. Clinton got 1,869,683 votes in Georgia. That’s about 93,000 more than Obama got in 2012. Final tally: Trump 51.1 percent Clinton 45.8 percent In 2012:
The following was posted to Facebook by Rick Day. He’s a long time commenter here, and was a delegate to Philadelphia for Bernie Sanders. I’ll likely follow up next week with some thoughts from a Republican perspective, but it’s probably best you guys hear from a Democrat on this first. I just want to type
In the aftermath of Tuesday’s election, there are some individuals who are looking for a way to get someone else besides Donald Trump inaugurated as president on January 20th. The strategy, apparently, is to find Republican electors in the Electoral College who would vote for someone else besides Trump. If there aren’t enough votes to
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
Just about every election cycle, you hear about a race coming down to just a handful of votes. This election cycle, the tax commissioner race is such a race. Rickey Hughes, the Republican challenger, lost on Election night to Democrat Joy Cooper Hamilton by 8 votes. (Emphasis added) The Chattooga County Republican Party, under the
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,
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
