Georgia is entering its last week of early voting with record heavy numbers. Log on to the website http://georgiavotes.com/ to view early statewide vote totals. As noted before, particular attention should be given to the “rural” vote (counties under 50,000 population) to ascertain if Republican President Donald Trump ultimately wins the Nov. 3 election over Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
As of this morning during this year’s general election season, 2,703,246 Georgians have voted. At this point in the 2016 general election, that number was 1,323,590. Total turnout for the 2020 general election is 104 percent higher! And the voting method breakdown is 948,285 mail ballots and 1,754,961 early votes
The election boils down to metro Atlanta versus the rest of the Georgia (metro Atlanta is now 29 counties). Democratic presidential candidate Biden is going to carry metro Atlanta (not every county, but the region overall) and that is the main reason why he is visiting Atlanta on Tuesday. He needs to bolster metro Democrat turnout.
Trump’s Georgia campaign and state GOP insiders say the president overall is going to win the 130 counties (combined) outside metro Atlanta. They believe that GOP turnout has been boosted by the huge Trump rally the other week at the Macon airport. State GOP Second Vice Chairman Brant Frost, one of the prime movers of rural turnout, says the GOP so far has a slight lead in early votes.
Interesting, too, is that “Change My Vote” is Google trending in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, Michigan and Wisconsin. After Biden was accused of being dishonest about opposing fracking and phasing out the oil industry, the search phrase started trending. It hit the maximum limit of the Google search trends on Friday.
Seven states allow voters to change their early vote if they do so by the November 3rd general election date. Georgia, though, does not have such a law.
