The politics in Pooler, GA are centered around the local government. The City of Pooler is managed by a mayor and six city council members who are elected to serve four-year terms. The current mayor is Rebecca Benton, and the city council members are Jim Brownlee, Kenny Howard, Steven Kitching, Mike Royal, Chris Kropp and Jon Hartzog. The city also has a City Administrator and various other departments such as Public Works and Planning & Zoning which help manage day-to-day affairs. Pooler's government focuses on providing services that best support the community such as improving parks and creating business opportunities for residents. In addition to its local government, Pooler also works with its state representatives to ensure that its citizens have access to quality public services.
The political climate in Pooler, GA is somewhat liberal.
Chatham County, GA is moderately liberal. In Chatham County, GA 58.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Chatham county remained very strongly Democratic, 58.6% to 39.9%.
Chatham county voted Democratic in the last five Presidential elections, after voting Republican in 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Pooler, GA is somewhat liberal.
Chatham County, Georgia is moderately liberal.
Savannah Metro Area is leaning liberal.
Georgia is leaning liberal.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Pooler, Georgia: r d D D D D
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Pooler, GA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,813 contributions totaling $208,733 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $55 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,787 contributions totaling $944,177 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $339 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)