With just over 8,000 early votes cast in the special election to replace former Rep. Tom Price in Georgia (he went on to become HHS secretary) Democrats appear to have a significant advantage, despite the district leaning heavily Republican. (It was even Newt Gingrich's seat at one point.)
It's a nonpartisan process in Georgia, but there are some clues as to who the voters are: 44 percent of the people who voted so far voted previously in a Democratic primary. Only 23 percent voted in a Republican one. For the rest, there's no record of them having voted in a primary, meaning they're either new to the area, young and voting for the first time, or hadn't voted in a primary before but are getting more engaged in politics after Trump's election. Winning the seat on April 18th requires at least 50 percent for Jonathan Ossoff, which is still going to be hard to get to, but Republicans are awfully scared looking at these early numbers. Here's Daniel Marans story on the first of three weeks of early voting, for some fun Saturday night or Sunday reading: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/first-week-early-voting-democrat-jon-ossoff_us_58dfcabfe4b0b3918c83efcb?d&
There's been some talk that Trump might try to work with the Congressional Black Caucus in order to try to get some Democratic support for his agenda. So Laura Barron-Lopez and I asked a bunch of them how they'd respond to such an entreaty: the short version is they're happy to listen, open to working with him, but don't think he's serious. And they haven't forgiven him for accusing Obama of wiretapping him. That story is here.
And with apologies, my note from the other day had broken links in it for a lot of you. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I'll paste them below again. (And here's a trick I've mentioned before: if you ever come across a broken link, one way to try to fix it is find the question mark in the URL and delete everything to the right of it, then try it again. Very often works.)
Here are the links that were busted for some of you:
A moving video portrait of a woman injured in the attack on American University of Afghanistan, which re-opened this week, by Khazar Fatemi: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/american-university-afghanistan-reopening-student-story_us_58dc286fe4b0e6ac709214f8
New York takes a step toward single payer: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-york-idc-single-payer-health-care_us_58dd34c6e4b0e6ac709300e1?x67wmjxagomlyds4i
How North Carolina could flip the South, by Julia Craven: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-carolina-donald-trump-protests_us_58daafdde4b0546370628f7b
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