{"id":12117,"date":"2018-05-24T10:04:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T15:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=12117"},"modified":"2018-05-24T10:06:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T15:06:05","slug":"through-national-migration-and-immigration-both-legal-and-illegal-georgia-fading-as-a-conservative-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/24\/through-national-migration-and-immigration-both-legal-and-illegal-georgia-fading-as-a-conservative-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Through national migration and immigration, both legal and illegal, Georgia fading as a Republican state &#8211; Cobb and Gwinnett Counties falling fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12125\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image-1.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image-1-300x162.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The below from the AJC today<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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\u2019s a gap of only 53,431 ballots.<\/p>\n<p>For Republicans, Tuesday\u2019s voting represents 68 percent gain over the 328,710 ballots cast in the 2014 primary for U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>But the more important numbers come from individual counties. In Gwinnett, Democrats(40,538) cast 4,374 more ballots than Republicans (36,164).<\/p>\n<p>In Cobb, Republicans cast 41,672 votes in their gubernatorial primary. Democrats cast 41,421. That\u2019s a difference of only 251 ballots.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Alex Kaufman had 2,249. That\u2019s a 307-vote gap favoring the Democrat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The below from the AJC today &#8220;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\u2019s a gap of only 53,431 ballots. For Republicans, Tuesday\u2019s voting represents 68 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12127,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117\/revisions\/12127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}