Podgy the Bear
mollybecky
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« on: January 17, 2024, 08:58:20 PM » |
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Zell Miller played a significant role in the Clinton campaign in 1992. He was the one who introduced James Carville and Paul Begala (who worked on his 1990 gubernatorial campaign) to Clinton. And he was the keynote speaker to the 1992 DNC.
Clinton was quite competitive in rural south Georgia and did reasonably well outside metro Atlanta in the north Georgia areas. In a three way race, Clinton won Pickens and Lumpkin counties in the mountain areas. Democrats are lucky to pick up 20 percent of the vote today.
Clinton would probably have won Georgia in 1996 as well. He was leading in polls in September and October 1996 and the campaign was running ads statewide. But they pulled the plug sometime late in October (to focus on Florida) and the campaign went dark statewide. The state party did focus its efforts on Max Cleland's Senate campaign, and that paid off, as he won in a close race.
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