Over at the Georgia Neo-Con Echo Chamber Peach Pundit, Mark Rountree crunched the numbers and found the 10 most vulnerable Republican legislators in Georgia. Interestingly five of the most vulnerable legislators are party switchers.
Rank District GOP Incumbent Democratic Ideal
#1. 151 Bob Hanner/Gerald Greene 66.57%
#2. 171 Jay Powell 59.46%
#3. 138 Mike Cheokas 59.43%
#4. 117 Doug McKillip 58.05%
#5. 119 Chuck Williams 56.08%
#6. 158 Butch Parrish 56.02%
While Powell did not switch, his father was a longtime Democratic legislator. Williams did not switch either.
What does that mean…well to be honest I don’t know. It probably says something about how hard it is to defeat an incumbent, no matter what the numbers show, and how strong is the desire for power . The numbers make it even more baffling why Greene, Hanner and Cheokas would have switched, just looking at their partisan makeup.
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