[Primary Election: July 15, 2008]

Presidential Preference Primary -- Tuesday February 5, 2008

On the Ballot
 

Democrats 103 Delegates (87 Pledged, 16 Unpledged) and 15 Alternates.  2.54% of the 4,049 Delegate Votes. Clinton   |  Obama former:  Edwards  |   Richardson Official Results 100% of precincts Joe Biden 2,536 0.2% Hillary Clinton 329,964 31.1% Chris Dodd 904 0.1% John Edwards 18,199 1.7% Mike Gravel 952 0.1% Dennis J. Kucinich 2,096 0.2% +Barack Obama 704,237 66.4% Bill Richardson 1,879 0.2% Total 1,060,767

Republicans 72 Delegates: 3 RNC; 30 at-large; 39 by CD (3 x 13). 3.03% of the 2,380 Delegates. Allocation: At-large is winner-take-all.  CD is winner-take-all by CD. Huckabee  |  McCain   |  Paul  |  Romney former: Giuliani  |  F.Thompson Official Results  100% of precincts Rudy Giuliani 7,157 0.7% +Mike Huckabee 326,845 33.9% Duncan Hunter 755 0.1% Alan Keyes 1,458 0.2% John McCain 304,724 31.6% Ron Paul 28,092 2.9% Mitt Romney 290,681 30.2% Tom Tancredo 324 - Fred Thompson 3,411 0.4% Total 963,447

Setting the Primary Date
On May 29, 2007 Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) signed S.B. 194, a bill that, among other provisions, states that the presidential preference primary "shall be held on February 5, 2008, and on the first Tuesday in February every four years thereafter."

Code Section 21-2-193: "Not later than November 1 of the year preceding the year in which a presidential preference primary is to be held, the state executive committee of each party which is to conduct a presidential preference primary shall submit to the Secretary of State a list of the names of the candidates of such party to appear on the presidential preference primary ballot. Such lists shall be published by the Secretary of State in a newspaper of general circulation in the state during the first week of December in the year immediately preceding the year in which the presidential preference primary is to be held."
 

General Election -- Tuesday, November 2, 2004

Voter Registration Deadline: October 4, 2004.
Advance Voting: Any registered voter can cast a ballot in person at their county voter registration office during normal business hours on October 25-29, 2004

+Bush/Cheney (Rep.) 1,914,254 (57.97) Kerry/Edwards (Dem.) 1,366,149 (41.37) Badnarik/Campagna (Lib.) 18,387 (0.56) Ralph Nader (w/in) 2,231 (0.07) Michael Peroutka (w/in) 580 (0.02) David Cobb (w/in) 228 (0.01) 4 other w/ins 46 -  Total........3,301,873   Total Advance Voting: 387,596

2004 Overview President Bush improved upon his 2000 showing winning by 548,105 votes (16.60 percentage points).  Bush carried 133 counties to 26 for Kerry.  Two of the campaigns' most prominent surrogates, retiring Sen. Zell Miller (D) for Bush and former Sen. Max Cleland (D) for Kerry, hailed from Georgia.  General Election Details Kerry/Allies  |  Bush-Cheney '04

(General Primary Election June 21, 2004)

Past Results

1996 Dole (Rep.)..........1,080,843 (47.01) Clinton (Dem.).....1,053,849 (45.84) Perot (Ref.)............146,337 (6.36) Others (1+w/ins)......18,042 (0.78) Total........2,299,071 1992 Clinton (Dem.).....1,008,966 (43.47) Bush (Rep.)...........995,252 (42.88) Perot (Ind.) ...........309,657 (13.34) Others (1+w/ins).......7,250 (0.31) Total........2,321,125	2000 +Bush/Cheney (Rep.) 1,419,720  (54.68) Gore/Lieberman (Dem.) 1,116,230 (42.99) Browne/Olivier (Lib.) 36,332 (1.40) Buchanan/Foster (Ind.) 10,926 (0.42) Ralph Nader (w/in) 13,432 (0.51) Howard Phillips (w/in) 140  - James Harris (w/in) 11 -  GloriaDawnStrickland(w/in) 8 -  Joe Schriner (w/in) 5 -  Total........2,596,804 Total Registered 4,648,210: Active 3,856,676, Inactive 791,534  2,690,624 total ballots were cast (difference from total votes for president is 93,991 or 3.5%). Turnout as a percentage of voting age population was 44.06%.  (U.S. avg: 53.76%). ..l Notes.  Only four candidates appeared on the presidential ballot (there were also five certified write-in candidates).  Independent candidates for president were required to submit 38,113 signatures of qualified, registered voters (one percent of the total number of voters registered and eligible to vote in Georgia in the 1996 presidential election).	2000 Overview In 1992 (Clinton) and again in 1996 (Dole) less than 30,000 votes separated the Republican and Democratic presidential tickets in Georgia; in 2000, however, Bush-Cheney walloped Gore-Lieberman by 313,490 votes (11.69 percentage points).  Bush carried 125 counties to Gore's 34.  Libertarian Harry Browne achieved one of his best showings in Georgia, while Ralph Nader, despite being a write-in candidate, finished ahead of Pat Buchanan. General Election Activity

Note: Also on the March 2, 2004 ballot, Georgia voters faced a Special Statewide Referendum on the flag.

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