Georgia's Very Own Megathread!

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

That was my point as well. Abrams’ entire campaign is based around identity politics and national support. Evans has been focused on more local issues. Neither candidate is good. Democrats really blew this race when candidates like Holcomb and Carter passed.

Abrams might fire *some* black people up with here “I’m a black woman” message. But it’ll cancelled out by the votes of still prejudiced white voters in rural GA and the sizable portion of black voters who also know that running a black candidate is a sure fire way to lose.

Abrams campaign is not based around identity politics. I've seen her on the stump multiple times and she has never brought up her race or gender. Expanding medicaid, affordable college, quality public education, rural employment, infrastructure investment, and a fair economy are not identity politics. What speech or ad has consisted of "I'm a black woman, hear me roar"?

And where was the identity politics in this speech, where she had a room full of working class white men giving her a standing ovation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhCq8yCpjXw

And to the bolded: are you suggesting black voters will not vote because she's "sure to lose"? Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy if I've ever saw one.

I’m suggesting they won’t vote for her in the primary. If she wins the nod of course they’ll vote for her in the general

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Well, it's getting nasty:

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FWIW, there has been serious questioning about these figures going all the way back to 2014-15 within Democratic circles here. I'm not going to bother with repeating this hearsay and that, but according to some of the data and a lot of what I heard in the past, this isn't inherently an unfair or unfounded attack...but nevertheless a pretty weak one.

Yeah the questioning probably has some basis. I sh1t you not, people from Abrams’ New Georgia Project were on my campus at Valdosta State registering voters. They got everyone at my job in the library to fill out their registration forms... and we were all already registered to vote, and told them so.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Yeah Evans’ campaign was awful. But Abrams’ strategy seems to basically be to ignore white voters and try and max out minority voters. Which is mathematically impossible. We would’ve been so much better off with Jason Carter.