Georgia's Very Own Megathread! (v2)

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AJC has a new poll out exclusively of women tomorrow.

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Just voted with my brother. I voted completely straight ticket (he said he pretty much did). We were in and out in about ten minutes.

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AJC article on the debate: https://www.ajc.com/news/stacey-abrams-brian-kemp-debate-tonight/h5hAHuiFtUPlEOR66cK0HN/.

Here's a tidbit about Abrams that I didn't know:

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I love how the Bigfoot thing stuck with Riggleman yet the Montgomery thing hasn't stuck with Abrams.

An old lady at work told me she thought it was awesome we could have a romance writer as a governor

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https://twitter.com/ariberman/status/1055160572361236480?s=21

Court dealt Kemp a loss just now

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I highly doubt Kemp is getting 11% of the black vote.

Had the same thought

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Question for you all that should probably go in the Congressional Elections board, but since the Georgia megathread is here - what's your take on how competitive GA-07 is right now? Is Woodall running a solid campaign?

It’s just too well gerrymandered to bust through just yet. Once the maps get redrawn, the D should win. Bordeaux is a great recruit tho

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Will Ferrell volunteering for Abrams

Ha, where is he at?

Kennesaw State University

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The judge denied Kemp a stay on the absentee ballot case  yesterday

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Did anyone see the interview with a Kemp supporter on MSNBC just now? It was ridiculous.

Nope.  Details?

It was a middle aged White lady. She was being interviewed by Katy Tur.

Katy asked her if she was concerned about voter suppression and the fact that 70% of the people targeted were Black. She said that she didn't believe that Kemp was targeting anyone. She also said that if the 70% number is true then maybe it's because "Black people can't follow instructions".

Katy then asked her about how she feels about celebrities like Oprah coming to Georgia to campaign for Stacey. She said that Oprah is "from Chicago" (Oprah is from Mississippi just like Stacey Abrams) and that Oprah should instead focus on the problems in Chicago.

It was unbelievable.

Oprah owns a house in Atlanta too. I think she got her start in the media market too

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I finally got around to watching the AM Joy  segments (I was canvassing this morning) and I gotta say, I love seeing Abrams and Tomlinson together. Hopefully we’ll see more of them together soon if you’re picking up what I’m putting down

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Georgians: gun to your head, who wins the SOS race?

Barrow, which with low expectations is the best thing to happen. Kemp unfortunately might have rigged this for himself .  Barrow can unpurge the voters (regardless of who wins gov) to hopefully allow for both Trump and Perdue to lose in two years. He’d also have a say in redistricing.

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The consensus on Political Rewind today was that Barrow is going to win outright and I’m inclined to agree.

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Abrams looks like she's gonna be able to drag him below 50% with Fulton and DeKalb still out. Glad Bordeaux won. She ran a great campaign and is a great candidate and I'm not just saying that as a GSU alum

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Abrams looks like she's gonna be able to drag him below 50% with Fulton and DeKalb still out. Glad Bordeaux won. She ran a great campaign and is a great candidate and I'm not just saying that as a GSU alum

Sorry--but it looks like Bourdeaux is now 6000 votes behind.  Forsyth County precincts came in for Woodall in a big way.  McBath is now down by 100 votes!!

Damn I just saw that. That's crazy

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Abrams campaign saying they believe it’s going to a runoff. She’s supposed to speak soon

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Bluestein on Twitter says there’s about 110k mail in ballots to be counted. It’s the big four counties too

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Kemp’s down to 50.4%

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https://twitter.com/wsj/status/1060227284886581249?s=21


This will take you around the paywall

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Tom Price's evil wife may have lost her seat in the state house.

Can we quarantine her?

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Federal judge ruled on the side of the Abrams team today. Gwinnett will have to count the ballots where people accidentally put “2018” of their year of birth. Obviously Abrams still has a log way to go but it could very easily get Bordeaux over the hump. There’s at least 534 votes rejected because of issues with birth year

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Bluestein says that there are 1400 votes left to count in Gwinnett. Could be done as soon as this afternoon

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Went and voted just now. My county (Coweta) wasn’t even supposed to be open for early voting today but they did bc of the demand

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Deal’s going to be teaching at UGA after he leaves office
https://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/gov-deal-teach-uga/bvc4SqKXzbrTyI3LoMnGSI/

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When you say her in this second paragraph, do you mean Abrams?

I guess that leads me to question asked you if Abrams was / is such in a brace of a****** who's Rob most of her legislative colleagues the wrong way, how did she ever wind up minority leader?

Yes.

As far as how she got the job, I don't know. I got involved with local politics roughly around the same time she was elected Minority Leader; never bothered to ask around about how that transpired. She's certainly capable and qualified, so perhaps that cancelled out other concerns in a chamber where Democrats were at their nadir.

Do you think there’s anyone who could realistically beat Perdue in 2020 without a runoff or are we still too far from that point?  Abrams seems like someone who would do much worse in a Senate race, but Barrow and her both showed we need someone who can bring some extra votes to the table on their own.  I kinda wish Jason Carter ran for LG because while he’d have lost, it’d be an interesting test of whether a strong white candidate from the Atlanta-metro would run ahead or behind Abrams in the Atlanta suburbs.  Thoughts?

I personally think that the 2020 senate seat is a reach bc of the runoff. I don’t see us winning a senate seat until Isakson retires in 22. I’d rather Abrams wait for a governor rematch then bc I just don’t see how Kemp is able to win again and she’s said she’d rather be an executive than a legislator. Thankfully there’s lots of young talent in the state but I think 22 will be the year that damn breaks