Category: General

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • The TIGC 2022 Georgia county rankings: Per Capita Income

    The TIGC 2022 Georgia county rankings: Per Capita Income

    This is the second in a series of posts ranking Georgia counties by various socioeconomic measures. About a week ago I did an initial post ranking the counties based on their population growth over the past three years. Now I’m shifting to economics. In this post, I’ll look at per capita income (PCI), but I’m…

  • Introducing the TIGC Georgia county rankings. First up: Population

    This is the first in a series of pieces ranking Georgia’s 159 counties by various measures. I’m starting with population and will follow up with rankings for various economic, educational attainment and population health metrics, possibly among others. Eventually I’ll combine all those individual rankings into what I’ll call the TIGC Power Rankings. One of…

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