Democrats sweep Georgia’s quiet election

In an off-year vote that was nearly empty, Democrats crushed Republican incumbents in two statewide races, winning the party’s biggest margins in decades.

Democrats Peter Hubbard and Alicia Johnson, winners of Georgia Public Service Commission races. (Photo courtesy of the candidates and Georgia Recorder)

It was one of the quietest elections Georgia has ever held, and one of the most successful for Democrats.

In the middle of an off-year election that most voters ignored, Democrats Alicia Johnson and Peter …