May 24, 2018

Through national migration and immigration, both legal and illegal, Georgia fading as a Republican state – Cobb and Gwinnett Counties falling fast

Posted by D.A. King at 10:04 am - Email the author   Print This Post Print This Post  

 

The below from the AJC today

“On Tuesday, Democrats racked up some encouraging statewide numbers. While a handful of boxes may be missing, there were 606,215 ballots cast in the Republican contest for governor, and 552,784 on the Democratic side. That’s a gap of only 53,431 ballots.

For Republicans, Tuesday’s voting represents 68 percent gain over the 328,710 ballots cast in the 2014 primary for U.S. Senate.

But the more important numbers come from individual counties. In Gwinnett, Democrats(40,538) cast 4,374 more ballots than Republicans (36,164).

In Cobb, Republicans cast 41,672 votes in their gubernatorial primary. Democrats cast 41,421. That’s a difference of only 251 ballots.

In north Fulton, we have the example of the race for House District 51, being given up by state Rep. Wendell Willard, R-Sandy Springs. The two primaries to replace him were uncontested, but Democrat Josh McLaurin posted 2,556 votes.

Republican Alex Kaufman had 2,249. That’s a 307-vote gap favoring the Democrat.”