Charlie is the scholar in residence at the Center for Middle Georgia Studies at Middle Georgia State University. Based in Watkinsville, the former political journalist and public relations professional now studies major economic, political and health issues affecting rural Georgia. He shares his research through statewide speaking engagements, regular columns appearing in publications across the Georgia Trust for Local News and his blog, Trouble in God’s Country.
In the wake of Mitt Romney’s loss to Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential race, a dumbstruck Republican National Committee commissioned a post-mortem aimed at figuring out what had gone wrong and how to fix it.
Sifting through the three million early votes Georgians have cast so far in the 2024 presidential race is an exercise in political algebra and some really fuzzy math.
In my most recent post, I scratched my head about whether Hurricane Helene would depress the vote in the counties she hit the hardest – and, more specifically, whether the fact that she ravaged much more Republican than Democratic territory might impact the outcome of the presidential race in Georgia.
In the wake of the 2020 presidential election, the Republican-controlled Georgia General Assembly passed a 98-page monster of a bill called the “Election Integrity Act of 2021.”
On Monday, one of Georgia’s two U.S. senators, Democrat Jon Ossoff, conducted a hearing in Decatur on the impact of Georgia’s current anti-abortion law. The hearing produced gut-wrenching testimony from two women who suffered gruesome miscarriages after being denied abortions.