In a city where, according to U.S. Census data, 9.3 percent of its population is older than 17 but younger than 65 years old, Nick Adams is a rarity.
The 18-year-old voted in his first election Tuesday.
He cast his ballot at Kennesaw's Lost Mountain Middle School, which was Cobb's fourth-most-friendly precinct to then-candidate Donald Trump with 75 percent of the vote in the 2016 election.
Adams voted for Clay Tippins in the gubernatorial race.
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He said he made his decision while watching the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News debate over the weekend.
The Harrison High graduate said he liked Tippins’ views on the Second Amendment.
Fellow young voter 20-year-old Ross Dockins also cast his ballot for Tippins.
The Army reservist in Charleston said he liked the soft, laid-back attitude of Tippins during the debate and no one policy jumped out at him.
He cast his ballot at Lost Mountain with his mother Kimberly Dockins.
But mom voted for Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
The 51-year-old Cobb native said she said she supports Kemp because of his strong Second Amendment stance, especially his advertisements.
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“They were forceful and to the point and not politically correct,” she said.
Jim Kilpatrick, 59, watched the same debate as the younger Republicans, but he said he couldn’t square with Tippins’ style, which he felt was too unpolished.
“He seemed to stumble a bit,” Kilpatrick said.
The Cobb resident of 15 years voted for Hunter Hill because the candidate wants to nix state income tax.
He felt Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle was too moderate.
Jeff Comer disagrees.
Comer, 63, said Cagle’s platform to lower taxes and bring good jobs is what won his vote.
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And after an hour spent at the deep red Kennesaw precinct, The AJC found a voter who cast their ballot for Smyrna’s ex-state representative and Democrat Stacey Evans.
Joy Clare said she voted for Evans because she liked the candidate's stance on the HOPE scholarship and support for rural communities.
Clare, 63, describes herself as fiscally conservative and socially liberal; she said she wrote in Ohio Gov. John Kasich for president in 2016 when she voted at Lost Mountain.
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