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Sixth District voting pool hasn’t changed much since Donald Trump’s election

Voters brandish their Georgia voting stickers after leaving the Cobb County main elections office. Henry Taylor, henry.taylor@ajc.com
Voters brandish their Georgia voting stickers after leaving the Cobb County main elections office. Henry Taylor, henry.taylor@ajc.com
By Jim Galloway
April 13, 2017

Our AJC colleague Kristina Torres has latched on to some of the few solid numbers surrounding next Tuesday's balloting in the Sixth District congressional race:

Crowds of new voters stirred by President Donald Trump's victory in November.

An analysis of state voter data by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows that voter registration in the northern Atlanta suburbs that form the district has barely budged since the November presidential election.

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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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