Author: Charles Hayslett
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Carter’s funeral and Trump’s inaugural: Bookends to a troubled half-century
After nearly two years in hospice care at his home in Plains, Ga., Jimmy Carter passed away Sunday afternoon at the age of 100. His family had said a few months ago that the nation’s 39th president was set on hanging on until he could cast his vote for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump. He…
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A question for Georgia’s Democratic Party leaders
I have a question for the Democratic Party of Georgia. Why should any prospective donor, large or small, contribute a single dime – nay, even a penny – to this party? I write this, by the way, as somebody who has not voted for a Republican since the late Mike Egan was my state senator…
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Decades to grow, minutes to destroy
I spent a good portion of last Saturday winding my way back and forth across at least a half-dozen southeast Georgia counties battered by Hurricane Helene. I’d be driving along, thinking, this isn’t all that bad. Then I’d top a hill or round a bend and it was like I was on another planet. Long…
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Helene depressed Georgia’s early vote by about 100,000 votes; impacted both parties but probably hit GOP hardest
An analysis of the impact of Hurricane Helene on early voting in Georgia.
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Sorting through Georgia’s early voting numbers with political algebra and fuzzy math
A second look at Georgia’s early voting data.
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My insanely premature analysis of Georgia’s first week of early voting
In my most recent post, I scratched my head about whether Hurricane Helene would depress the vote in the counties she hit the hardest – and, more specifically, whether the fact that she ravaged much more Republican than Democratic territory might impact the outcome of the presidential race in Georgia. Now that we’ve got the…
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Is Mother Nature voting in this year’s presidential election?
Could the weather gods be messing with our politics? Maybe even engaging in election interference? Probably not, but it’s hard to study a map of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Helene and not conclude that somebody is highly annoyed with Republicans. Even Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who represents northwest Georgia, noticed the political…
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Are guns and abortion coming home to haunt Gov. Kemp?
(This is my latest column written for the Georgia Trust for Local News. Starting September 19, 20204, it is being published in more than 20 daily and weekly papers in Middle and South Georgia. — CH) On Monday, one of Georgia’s two U.S. senators, Democrat Jon Ossoff, conducted a hearing in Decatur on the impact…
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How Georgia’s 2024 Presidential Race May Have More to Do with Brian Kemp than Donald Trump
[My friends at The Daily Yonder asked me to write a piece on the presidential race in Georgia. It follows below.] By Charles Hayslett, The Daily YonderSeptember 18, 2024 Several political eons ago – by which I mean July – it seemed likely Georgia would skate through the 2024 presidential race without again being the…