Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Georgia GOP Primary Results


533,429 GOP voters (14.4%) turned out to keep Establishment Republicans in charge for another 4 years.

Governor candidate Casey Cagle at 38.9% with 236,283 votes and Brian Kemp at 25.5% with 155,246 votes will be on the ballot in a July run-off.

Establishment candidates Casey Cagle and Brian Kemp captured 391,529 or 73% of the Republican vote.

Conservative candidates Hunter Hill at 18.3% with 111.432 votes and Michael Williams at 4.9% with 29,529 votes captured the conservative vote with a total of 140,961 or 26% of the Republican vote.

199 million voters in all 50 States and 6,148,229 registered voters in Georgia. Georgia voters tend to vote Republican, so if it’s 60%, Republicans should have 3,688,937 voters.  It looks like the voter turnout for this primary was 14.4%.

Conservatives in Georgia are not satisfied with the “Establishment” model in Georgia, but the majority of Georgia GOP voters don’t mind and this is dangerous.

Conservatives congratulated Ken Pullin HD 131 (Pike & Upson) on this election and Matt Gurtler HD 8 (Union, Towns, Rayburn & White) for his 60% win and re-election despite Ralston’s attempts to unseat him.

The conservative candidates did put pressure on the establishment candidates, but this was another limited issue, limited information election based on name recognition. The “establishment” limited the issues to platitudes. They exclude the fact that Georgia voters are powerless to defend their tax dollars from the whims of the politicians. In Georgia, it’s government, of the government, by the government and for the government.



Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader


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