As the calendar flips to 2026, battle for control of the Georgia House cranks up
Most legislative races are pretty anti-climatic by the time general election voters cast a ballot in the fall, and that is by design.
The state Legislature has power to determine the boundaries of its own districts, and they tend to do it in a way that protects the party in power. That leads to a lot of races where only the incumbent runs or a long-shot candidate from the other party steps up and gets a small slice of the total vote.
But when a state gets closer to 50-50, like Georgia is getting, districts that were mostly safe become less safe.
That’s what happened around the turn of the century in Georgia, when Democrats ruled the roost and Republicans were hot on their heels.
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