Atlanta (the city = very, very strongly black/liberal/democrat/extremists) is split between counties: Dekalb and (south) Fulton county. The city of Atlanta is the typical urban, corrupt, democrat-led mess we are all familiar with, and is no better than any urban-democratc-led city. Both Fulton County and Dekalb county trend the same way.
The north half of Fulton county is a more typical, more recently developed suburban and many hundreds of very nice neighborhoods. North Fulton will probably go 75-80 for Chambliss, but won't cover the greater urban population of south Fulton. Dekalb is lost, probably forever.
The six counties around Atlanta will almost certainly go republican. The total (Atlanta + the suburban counties) drives most of GA’s population, because the other cities in GA are important, but simply don't have enough people to drive politics very far on a statewide basis.
But in the GA legislature, the other cities and the rural counties carry much more influence.
This race?
Where is DOUGHERTY cty? I thought it was rural but it’s going heavily to Martin.
Thank you Robert, but as a former resident of Forsyth County, I’m pretty much up on the voting trends inside the Forcefield, as we used to call it.
It’s worth noting that at this point, only about 150,000 votes remain uncounted in Dekalb, and if current trends continue, Martin will get just over 100,000 of those.
Meanwhile he trails Chambliss by about 300,000 votes...
- Redbob, P.E.
Godspeed, Senator Chambliss!