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‘Political Rewind’ replay: Out of Kansas, and on to the Georgia Sixth

AJC file

Credit: Jim Galloway

Credit: Jim Galloway

AJC file
By Jim Galloway
April 12, 2017

Today's edition of GPB's "Political Rewind" came only a few hours after Republicans in Kansas' Fourth District dashed Democratic hopes of sparking a stampede that could swamp Georgia's Sixth on Tuesday.

No one ruled out an outright win, but there was general consensus that Democrat is probably headed for a June 20 runoff.

But here’s a fact that got tossed out there early: Among U.S. House districts controlled by Republicans, the Sixth has the highest education level in the country.

If you couldn’t catch it live, click below to listen now:

Today’s panel: Host Bill Nigut; Greg Bluestein, one of your Insiders; Republican adviser Heath Garrett; and Conor Sen of Bloomberg View.

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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