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Podcast: What recent polls of Georgia voters say about May's primary elections

A voter casts his ballot in Georgia's 6th Congressional District special election at a polling site in Sandy Springs, Ga., Tuesday, June 20, 2017.

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A voter casts his ballot in Georgia's 6th Congressional District special election at a polling site in Sandy Springs, Ga., Tuesday, June 20, 2017.
By Bria Felicien
April 30, 2018

Two separate polls of likely Democratic and Republican primary voters were conducted in April.

In the latest episode of the Politically Georgia podcast, host Greg Bluestein and AJC Washington correspondent Tamar Hallerman analyzed the results.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News commissioned the University of Georgia to conduct the polls.

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