Georgia's Very Own Megathread!

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It it does turn out to be a battles of the Staceys, this will be the first gubernatorial election in Georgia's history where the nominee of either major party is a woman. This will also be the first election since 1990 that a woman will be on the general election ballot.

Is Cagle likely to win the GOP Nomination?

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The GA GOP if Norwood wins as an "Independent"

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The GA GOP if Norwood wins as an "Independent"

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Meh. It's not like the GA GOP would ever nominate her for statewide office anyway. Or for a Congressional seat in a D+43 city

I still think the GOP winning a Mayoral Election in one of the biggest D cities in the South is a huge win, especially if the candidate is hiding the fact that they're an R.

It appears not to matter

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Ok I'm just looking at the swing in Gwinnett, Henry, Cobb, wow the Metro looks like it's surging Dem. 

Chatham county looks interesting too, I assume due to Black turnout in Savannah?

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Barrow better beat a runoff.

GO ABRAMS!

GO EVERYONE BUT CAGLE CAUSE A RUNOFF!

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Hill gets a county. lol

It's whitfield too :thinking:

Griffin was talking about it earlier, about it being weird on the GOP Side

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where do y'all see Hill winning Whitfield? it's not up on the SoS website yet (at least for me)

On NYTImes

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Welp, John Barrow did it, THE MADMAN IS BACK!

I think GA SOS will be Tilt D, and Gov depends on the R runoff obviously, but Abrams is clearly running into the GE with momentum on her side, hopefully she recognizes Dems should go after Rural GA as well, otherwise she'll probably just barely lose the GE.

Edit:  I meant places in Northern GA like Whitfield, not just the Black Belt.

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I admittedly don’t know much about this race and haven’t read a lot of this thread but Dems are blowing heir chances by nominating far left candidates in lean red-purple states. Maybe Abrams is good for Hawaii or something but in Georgia, Evans was the right call.

All things being equal I think the moderate is the better choice but especially in this case

I don't think Abrams is far left at all, her platform is fine, she just needs to win the Metro and keep margins down in Rural GA, which she can probably do. 

Also if someone can be endorsed by Hillary, Jason Kander, and pretty much every Union in the state, in addition to pretty much every progressive group in the Country, something tells me she's not a nut, just a consensus candidate.

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For what it's worth, I never received any outreach from down-ballot candidates in terms of mail, calls, etc save for two: one of them was John Barrow. Being one of a relative handful of people in a non-metro county who would be identified as a "Strong Democrat" in Democratic voter files, that tells me he was one of the very few down-ballot who ran a legitimate statewide campaign targeting as many Democrats as possible.

Well that sounds good for Barrow in November, he'll probably run a truly statewide campaign in the GE as well.

Who was the other Candidate who you received stuff from?

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Um.... holy sh*t

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/us/politics/trump-endorsement-kemp.html

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Ladies and Gentlemen, laugh at Bagel right now.

Evans would be leading

However, according to Griff, Carter was ahead in polls at this time.  Still I think this is a rather great piece of news for Abrams/Dems.

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Tossup/Tilt-D  imo

Abrams certainly has a great shot based on her barnstorming the State and her opponents being Dumb and Dumber

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Cagle's response:

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And Kemp's:

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LOL

Wow...

GO KEMP!

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Lol are there videos to all this stuff in the links or do we have to wait until SBC makes another Borat-esque film and releases it?

https://youtu.be/4k4pMTsa1Kw

Sacha might have helped Abrams with this I think, Kemp's response is horrible.

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Lol are there videos to all this stuff in the links or do we have to wait until SBC makes another Borat-esque film and releases it?

https://youtu.be/4k4pMTsa1Kw

Sacha might have helped Abrams with this I think, Kemp's response is horrible.

I wish but this will forgotten tomorrow after the nominee is chosen. LOL. Spencer lost his primary so he's not even going to be in the Legislature in 2019. Abrams and co. will be blasting Kemp's voting suppression record for the next three months. That issue is a rallying call for African-American voters.

I'll also be glad Kemp is the nominee because he's on record outright refusing to expand Medicaid. Cagle was more ambiguous about it (I think he wants a work requirement).

Ah well, hopefully even if this is forgotten by voters the image of Kemp being scum sticks in their minds.  I imagine she'll do very well against Kemp, he's rather clearly the "Firebrand" candidate and if he's refusing to expand medicaid that'll probably hurt a bit in the suburbs.

I'll be "bold" and say Lean D for Abrams if Kemp is the R.

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With tonight's primary results Abrams effectively becomes the next Georgia governor as long as she puts effort all around the state as she seems to be planning to.