Peach Pundit has the results from the straw poll at the Union County GOP BBQ today, and there were several things I found interesting about it.
First, let’s talk about the Governor race:
The most striking thing is that one of the men many pundits don’t give a chance in hell of winning this race – SWGA’s Austin Scott – got within three votes of a man that claims to be the “frontrunner” of this race – John Oxendine. Does this say really good things about Scott, really bad things about Ox, or some combination? I say C, some combination. Union County was just off the path of Scott’s Walk of Georgia, and it wouldn’t be surprising if many there heard of him in the Dahlonega media. Second, it shows that Ox is continuing to lose steam, despite his campaign’s propaganda.
Next, in Nathan Deal’s own Congressional district, which he has served for more than a decade and a half, he only pulled 34% in this poll. That shows a glaring sign of weakness to me – particularly when the three South GA candidates combined for 30% of the vote in this county that sits on the GA-TN line. That said, Deal still pulled exactly double his nearest competitor, and Karen Handel, Eric Johnson, Ox, and Scott were all within 10 votes of each other.
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