Updated Georgia Early Vote Even Better

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Thursday October 28, 2010 · 10:20 AM PDT

2010/10/28 · 10:20

Here's some background: In 2008, the early vote in Georgia was 35% African American. The day of election vote was 25% African American. It averaged out right at 30%. Obama got 47% of the vote.

In 2006, the early vote was 17% African American, the day of election vote was 25%, it averaged out at 24%.

This year the early vote in Georgia as of right now stands at 26.9% African American. And in the past few days, it's been taking off. On Saturday some metro Atlanta counties had weekend early vote hours and 55% of the voters that took advantage of them were African Americans. On Monday, the first day of the extended advance vote week with more locations in the large metro counties, the African American vote almost topped 29%. And yesterday, it hit 30% for the single day.

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Thursday October 21, 2010 · 1:15 PM PDT

2010/10/21 · 13:15

In 2008, African American voters turned out in record numbers in Georgia. Most of them took advantage of the state's (at the time) new 45 day advance voting. Here's how it works: For 45 days before election day the elections division office in the county seat of each of Georgia's 159 counties is open during business hours to cast a "no excuse" early vote. The majority of Democratic votes cast in 2008 came from this early voting, Democrats were excited and waited in long lines to bank their votes. Many Democratic precincts only had a trickle of voters on the actual election day, because upwards of 60% of the precinct had already voted early.

But that was just because Obama was on the ballot, right? Couldn't happen again in 2010 when Democrats and African Americans are suffering from a large enthusiasm gap...right?

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Monday July 12, 2010 · 7:05 AM PDT

2010/07/12 · 07:05

Like many people here, I was outraged last week when a California jury returned a guilty verdict for involuntary manslaughter for Oakland BART police officer's Johannes Mehserle's cold blooded killing of Oscar Grant. I don't know the law, but that seemed like a bad verdict.

Something similar happened in Georgia. In 2003, police officers in Columbus (southwest of Atlanta) pulled over a car that was wrongly identified as belonging to drug traffickers from Miami. Even though the people in the car dutifully pulled over and exited the vehicle, one sheriff's deputy shot Kenneth Walker twice in the head while he was already restrained on the ground on the side of the highway.

But as you'll learn, in Georgia we didn't even get the partial justice that Oakland got. Here, the DA, a man named Ken Hodges, botched the arraignment. He "forgot" to swear in witnesses, refused to show the public the police dashboard video of the shooting, and after all of this didn't even ask for an indictment.

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 2:39 AM PDT

2008/10/09 · 02:39

From 2004-2007, I was the "data geek" for the Democratic Party of Georgia. This year, I'm running for State House myself because I think Atlanta needs the same brand of change Barack Obama wants to bring to the White House. More about me later, though. People have been asking me both nationally and in Georgia this last week is it really possible for Jim Martin or Barack Obama to win Georgia? The answer may surprise you: Yes.

Forget the polls. We have a tendency to live and die by the polls, and although they are looking pretty good for Georgia right now, the real magic is in the data. In 2004, 68.5% of Georgia's active registered voters where white, 27.4% were African-American and 4.1% registered as some other race - or no race at all.

That translated into an electorate that was roughly 71.3% white, 25.4% African-American and 3.3% other. We've heard a lot about the massive increases in voter registration in Georgia, but what we also hear is that it is easy to register, much harder to vote. Follow me into the extended entry for some amazing visual proof that Georgia's new registrations are turning into voters that Barack Obama, Jim Martin and Democrats running all the way down the ballot can put into the bank...

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Saturday October 28, 2006 · 10:41 AM PDT

2006/10/28 · 10:41

Republican in Georgia redistricted in 2005 in order to target two recently elected rural Democratic Congressmen, Jim Marshall (Ga-3) and John Barrow (Ga-12). Barrow is still running in the 12th district (even though his home was removed) but Marshall's district # was changed to the 8th and the Democratic performance was lowered by about 10% (Marshall won in 2004 with 63%).

A new poll was leaked by Marshall's campaign to the Macon Telegraph. It was conducted by the Mellman Group 10/21-10/24 and here are the results (sorry no trendlines):

Georgia (8th CD)
Marshall (D) 50
Collins (R) 35

A little background on the district and where the race is headed in the last 10 days below... Read More

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Wednesday October 26, 2005 · 1:32 PM PDT

2005/10/26 · 13:32

So, I often hear Democrats say "I'd give anything to see Rove get indicted." Well that got me thinking and I think there is a very good way to do just that. I've got a helpful entry at my site, but what it basically boils down to is this:

You can use real money to profit from whatever happens to Rove. If he gets indicted, you profit emotionally (and lose some cash) and if he doesn't, you profit financially (but become very sad). Check it out and happy trading...

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Tuesday November 02, 2004 · 10:42 AM PST

2004/11/02 · 10:42

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