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Before boats even left the dock Friday, a quick lightning storm rolled through the area in the early morning causing a half hour delay to the start of both the
Students in Emory political scientist Bernard Fraga’s class worked in real time to crunch midterm election data and translate the numbers into credible analysis ready for the public eye.
Within hours of Georgia voters’ November decision to make Joe Biden the first Democratic president to win the state since 1992, a national narrative emerged that the suburbs – imagined as mostly white areas around Atlanta – would be key in the pending twin Senate runoffs. Emory political scientist Bernard Fraga had been drafting a different story. It focused not only on his work as a voting behavior expert but also on his lived experience as one of the transplants behind the demographic shift in the state and the suburbs in question. “Elections in Georgia are inseparable from race and ethnicity in both who votes and who doesn’t,” says Fraga, the author of “The Turnout Gap,” an analysis of those disparities in voter turnout.