Well only .007% of the registered voters voted for republicans in the primary. I know you want to dismiss this because of turnout, but that is a massive swing and those republicans are no guarantee to just show up on Election Day.
We are seeing it with Anzalone. They seem a little less likely to give out a third contract. They did with Montgomery and Decker. Linderbaum is different since it would be a second contract but I got a feeling they were planning on moving on from Ragnow after this contract.
This is just wild. Atlanta was always a democratic stronghold because it’s mostly black. Georgia didn’t go blue because the suburbs were Republican strongholds and anything but progressive. This is where Newt Gingrich and his Christian right came from. It was no different than the Dallas suburbs.