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Charlie Hayslett

Charlie is the scholar in residence at the Center for Middle Georgia Studies at Middle Georgia State University. Based in Watkinsville, the former political journalist and public relations professional now studies major economic, political and health issues affecting rural Georgia. He shares his research through statewide speaking engagements, regular columns appearing in publications across the Georgia Trust for Local News and his blog, Trouble in God’s Country.

Charlie's Latest Articles

Sorting through Georgia’s early voting data with political algebra and fuzzy math

Sifting through the three million early votes Georgians have cast so far in the 2024 presidential race is an exercise in political algebra and some really fuzzy math.

My insanely premature analysis of Georgia’s first week of early voting

I scratched my head about whether Hurricane Helene would depress the vote in the counties she hit the hardest – and, more specifically, whether the fact that she ravaged much more Republican than Democratic territory might impact the outcome of the presidential race in Georgia.

Is Mother Nature voting in this year’s presidential election?

It’s hard to study a map of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Helene and not conclude that somebody is highly annoyed with Republicans.

Keeping the Hurricane Helene story alive is job one for Kemp – and the Georgia media
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A crop of things sown
The battle for South Georgia begins
Harris-Walz road trip a powerful signal that the Democrats want to fight for rural Georgia
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