Early voting doesn’t begin for another two weeks, but already more than 9,000 absentee ballots have been mailed in by Georgians, according to numbers from the Secretary of State’s office. A big absentee voting number could bode well for said Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, who is locked in an extremely tight race with Democratic rival Stacey Abrams to succeed Gov. Nathan Deal. Absentee voting tends to skew Republican, so this news has the GOP’s hopes tenuously RISING…
Trump rally targets base & low propensity voters
President Donald Trump is in Dalton on Friday and his rally will certainly be a newsworthy event attended by a faithful base. And that’s the point. This is a base mid-term election (for both parties) and, as proven in the past, Trump can motivate not only the “MAGA GOP” but low propensity GOP and independent voters who otherwise might stay at home. Trump’s presence also seeks to boost GOP turnout for gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson and U.S. Senate candidate Mike Collins. The rally will obviously generate publicity for Republicans and their policies but also Democrat attacks. In any event, since the margin of statewide victory for Georgia Republicans presently appears narrow, their hope is that the attention-grabbing rally will have their poll numbers RISING…
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