Category: Presidential Election
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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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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…
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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…
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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.…