2022 Election How Have The Georgia Polls Moved Since Herschel Walker's Abortion Controversy? By Nathaniel Rakich Oct. 18, 2022, at 11:26 AM ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER Two weeks ago, the world learned that Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia who supports a total abortion ban without exceptions, had paid for his pregnant then-girlfriend to get an abortion in 2009. (Walker denies this.) At the time, we cautioned that we would need to wait and see how the controversy might affect Walker’s chances of winning the race. We now have new polling data that sugge ..read more

2022 Election Will Herschel Walker's Abortion Controversy Hurt His Chances In Georgia? By Nathaniel Rakich Oct. 4, 2022, at 4:25 PM ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES On Monday night, The Daily Beast reported that Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Georgia who has said he wants to ban abortion in all circumstances, had paid for his pregnant then-girlfriend to get an abortion in 2009. Walker is currently locked in a toss-up race with Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock for a seat that could decide control of the Senate. According to FiveThirtyEight’s midterm ..read more

2022 Election How Black Americans Reshaped Politics In Georgia PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES By Elena Mejía and Alex Samuels and Elena Mejía and Alex Samuels Sep. 26, 2022, at 6:00 AM In the 2020 election cycle, Democrats’ decades-long dream of winning Georgia finally became a reality. The state voted for a Democrat, Joe Biden, in the presidential race for the first time since 1992, and it elected two Democrats to the U.S. Senate. Looking back, it’s hard to pinpoint what turned Georgia blue. Was it antipathy toward then-President Donald Trump? After all, anti-Trump ..read more

2022 Election Georgia’s Senate Race Is Much Closer Than The Governor Election. Will That Hold Until November? By Geoffrey Skelley Sep. 7, 2022, at 6:00 AM After a history-making 2020 and 2021, Georgia is once again on our minds with two high-profile statewide races on the ballot this November: the U.S. Senate race, a highly competitive contest between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker, as well as the gubernatorial contest, a high-octane rematch between Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams. But interestingly, these races have pretty different ..read more

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Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat who was propelled to national prominence after her narrow loss in the 2018 governor’s race, announced last week that she’s running for governor again in 2022. At first, the race seemed poised to be a high-profile rematch between Abrams and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. But that dynamic shifted on Monday after David Perdue, a former Georgia senator who lost his seat in January, announced that he was also entering the race — setting up a primary showdown between a close ally of former President Trump and the G ..read more

Georgia’s new voting restrictions dominated headlines in March, for numerous reasons: It was one of the closest states in last year’s presidential election and the focus of former President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign to get Republicans to overturn the results; the legislation was written in such a way as to have a disproportionate impact on voters of color; and the law inspired an unusual amount of backlash from corporate America, even spurring Major League Baseball to move its All-Star Game out of the state. But Georgia is hardly the only state that’s made it harder to vote this year. R ..read more

We spent the summer and fall of 2020 tracking changes to state voting regulations due to the pandemic, when almost every state relaxed its laws to make it easier to vote. That’s not the case here in 2021, though, as many Republican state legislators spend the early days of this year’s legislative session proposing laws that would make it harder to vote — especially in ways disproportionately used by Democrats and voters of color — under the pretense of preventing large-scale voter fraud (which doesn’t exist). Watch: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/georgia-runoffs-changed-polling-broken-n ..read more

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