There have been seven recent polls on the race for governor of Georgia, including one released Tuesday by the left-leaning Atlanta Journal-Constitution, indicating that Republican candidate Rick Jackson is in the lead. And that’s after Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms began the general election campaign with a five-point advantage. Significantly, the poll showed Jackson has a lead of 58 percent with those voters 65 years old and older.
This is important because these senior citizen voters comprise the largest share of those who have already voted early, according to GeorgiaVotes.com. This website tracks with what InsiderAdvantage pollster Matt Towery has found in Georgia and several other states— namely, the emergence of a “silver wave” of these voters who are mostly Republican-leaning and conservative.
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