Posted on 05/26/2022 9:34:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The number of people turning out for the Georgia primary this week certainly put paid to the Democratic claim about the election law that was passed in 2021. Democrats had falsely claimed that the law was a “Jim Crow” effort to restrict the vote. That was untrue; it even increased the opportunities to vote. But the turnout also showed that Georgians were in no way hindered from voting.
However, there is an underlying, fascinating number that is worth talking about — the incredible increase in the GOP primary voting numbers.
The new commonsense election integrity laws have made it easier to vote and harder to cheat.
The numbers from Georgia primaries don’t lie. Voter participation is up 96% for Republicans! pic.twitter.com/stqHoPkaKc
— GOP (@GOP) May 25, 2022
Georgia GOP primary turnout by year:
2006 – 419,254
2010 – 680,499
2014 – 596,218
2018 – 608,380
2022 – 1,109,506— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) May 25, 2022
Republicans up 96 percent and Democrats up 26 percent? That definitely kills the restrictive voting story, since both went up.
But it also shows a remarkable increase for the Republicans that we have to talk more about. Now, a percentage of that is crossover voting — about 7 percent Democrats, who asked for a Republican ballot and voted Republican in an open primary, as my colleague Sarah Lee noted. There’s no question that some of those were Democrats doing a vote against the Trump-endorsed candidates for governor and Secretary of State, as my colleague Joe Cunningham observed. It’s also quite possible that Georgians saw Brian Kemp as the more likely candidate to beat Stacy Abrams than David Perdue, and that was the paramount thought going on there.
But even if there was a certain percentage voting against Trump-endorsed candidates, there’s another important point to be made here–that even without that 7-percent crossover, the enthusiasm for the GOP candidates was up considerably and far more than the Democrats. There are likely a number of crossovers who aren’t doing it to be anti-Trump, but because they’ve had enough with Biden and the Democrats, inflation, and rising gas prices. You now have a whole block of parents who have been charged up over things like CRT, gender identity and all the chaos being pushed by the Democrats.
You also had terrific numbers for the Trump-endorsed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Herschel Walker with both getting around 70 percent. So what does that say about the crossover?
Walker’s numbers in a contested primary vs. Warnock’s numbers are a warning for Democrats.
It’s actually much worse than that: Walker got more than 100K votes than Warnock.
Either voter suppression in Georgia is already working or Dems are just not that interested in voting.
This bodes very poorly for November.
pic.twitter.com/ICxGzFAyFa— Mona Sigal M.D. (@MonaSigal) May 25, 2022
The enthusiasm seems far higher for the Republican candidates than for the Democratic candidates, and it’s one more indication that a tsunami is likely on the way in November. This is a big data point screaming good news for Republicans if they stick with sense all the way to November.
It isn’t ultimately about Democrats trying to play politics over Trump or Jan. 6 or whatever Democrats would like to be pushing. It’s largely about the economy and that’s what’s going to sink the Democrats– both in Georgia and elsewhere.
Yeah and some of the candidates getting over 70% of the vote. Nothing suspicious there.
That’s common in primaries.
unfortunately the fraud increase in vote defeated the gop increase in vote.
I wouldnt be surprised if some of the increased gop vote was due to fraud
Not really
Some candidates were very well liked
No. The GOsp registration almost doubled. There was a huge effort by the oft derided Kelly Loeffler and her group to register new Republican voters
anything’s possible in GA. the dems and raffie have many ways to cheat from conventional like mules, crossover primary, to machines.
Yet we’re supposed to believe that all those additional voters just couldn’t wait to vote for Kemp. Something smells…”big league.”
What’s the point if they are Assistant Democrats?
that’s how i feel. Didn’t they vote in the sec of state who ensures fraud elections? Georgia is done
Those numbers are likely larded with fraud as the uniparty has kept its corrupt GOP players largely in place.
I think we are looking at a red tsunami in November.
The problem is nothing will change in Georgia because the RINO establishment with the help of Democrats has largely held on in-state.
Sure, they were.
GA is a open primary state .
I think the Dems picked Anti Trump Gope puppets who will lose in the General .
Many Trump supporters will not vote for these Bushy traitors .
A Republican who is with America 95% of the time is better than are.ocrat who is with America 5% of the time. We need to stop bashing Republicans who has a different view on x than we do.
Purdue sucked that bad.. his loss is on him.
And what Republicans would that be?
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