On the front lawn are campaign signs for his fellow Georgia Libertarian challengers. He hosted a watch party for the only Walker-Warnock debate and walked in Pride parades waving a rainbow-colored Don’t Tread On Me flag now perched outside his garage. Of the record $8.9bn spent nationally on federal campaigns this election cycle, Georgia Senate candidates raised $136m, one of the most expensive contests in the country. But one pollster predicted Oliver’s success was more likely about pulling away “soft Republican” votes from rightwing voters who couldn’t face voting for Walker.Įven more impressive than the 81,000 votes Oliver tallied on election night was the $7,790 he raised campaigning to win them. Photograph: Courtesy Chase for GeorgiaĮxactly who went for Oliver remains disputed: he reckons his typical voter was a left-leaning independent who might otherwise have voted for Warnock. Oliver’s platform runs from immigration reform to world peace, but it’s government dysfunction that really animates him.
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