Author: Charles Hayslett

  • Helene depressed Georgia’s early vote by about 100,000 votes; impacted both parties but probably hit GOP hardest

    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.

  • Sorting through Georgia’s early voting numbers with political algebra and fuzzy math

    Sorting through Georgia’s early voting numbers with political algebra and fuzzy math

    A second look at Georgia’s early voting data.

  • 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…

  • Is Mother Nature voting in this year’s presidential election?

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • A crop of things sown

    Last week’s shooting at Apalachee High School in Barrow County put me in mind of Ralph McGill.  More specifically, it was The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s editorial response to the shooting that put me in mind of McGill. McGill, of course, was the legendary Atlanta Constitution editor whose front page columns served more than a half-century ago…

  • Kicking off the Harris-Walz campaign in South Georgia

    Kicking off the Harris-Walz campaign in South Georgia

    Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and a good editorial cartoon is worth a couple of zillion. Commercial artist extraordinaire Trevor Irvin took a couple of suggestions I made in my last couple of TIGC posts and turned them into an editorial cartoon that would have made the late Jack Davis proud. Suggestion…

  • Harris and Walz take a cue from TIGC, head to South Georgia

    Well, dang. Who knew Kamala Harris and Tim Walz read “Trouble in God’s Country”? Actually, they almost certainly don’t. But it’s one heck of a coincidence that they announced a South Georgia bus tour less than a week after TIGC suggested exactly that. Well, not exactly that. I recommended putting Coach Walz (and members of…

  • Can Coach Walz get the Democrats back in the game in rural Georgia?

    (Note: About three months ago, I started writing a weekly “Trouble in God’s Country” column that now runs in about 30 daily and weekly papers, mostly in South Georgia. As a result of that work, however, I’ve been a little distracted from my usual TIGC research, but I’m trying to get back to that now.…

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