Huckabee, Obama recieve support in East Metro Atlanta

By Charles Edwards

Atlanta, GA – Just under an hour left for voting in Georgia's Presidential Primary.

Earlier today, voters east of Atlanta threw their support towards Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Barack Obama.

This afternoon, a steady flow of voters cast ballots at Gateway Community Church in Covington, about 35 miles east of Atlanta.

Covington's in Newton County, which Bush and Cheney won easily in 2004. But this year, Covington's Republican voters had choices to make.

FOOT: It's a toss up. I just flipped a coin this morning.

And that's how Joel Foot picked Mike Huckabee over Mitt Romney. Foot, who's unemployed, says he likes Huckabee's plan to lower taxes.

That same issue attracted Kim Johnson, a medical records worker, to Huckabee.

JOHNSON: Mainly the fair tax. He's pro-life and he's a Christian minister. I was raised in a minister's home. So, I can really identify with that.

Billy Roper can also see himself in the candidate he chose. Barack Obama. Roper, an African-American, teaches social studies and P.E.

ROPER: So often we have to identify with someone that doesn't even look like us you know. It's good to have someone who you can say, he's one of us.

Roper wasn't the only black Democrat at this polling place who said race was a factor. However, Carla Pierre, a registered nurse originally from Haiti, said race wasn't the only reason she chose Obama over Hillary Clinton.

PIERRE: He said that he didn't vote for the war. Hillary did. So, hey come on now!!! If you did not vote for the war! She did. So, she's not in our favor.

The war was also on home care taker Fanny Perry's mind as she pressed the box next to Obama.

PERRY: It's time to end it. It's just time for an end. It's time to make a great change and I feel he's the one who can do it.

However, the race in Georgia is far from over. Polls will close in about an hour.