A local professor at Clayton State University has come under fire for offering extra credits to students who attended an on-campus rally for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Andrea Allen, an associate professor of criminal justice at the school, told students in an email that the Abrams campaign “would like a really big turnout,” and that she would add 2 points to the final grade of any student who attended and took a selfie. The university backtracked when the story blew up, offering extra credit for students attending any political event, but a public employee acting as an activist and pushing students toward a rally in this way has her ship SINKING…
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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