Black female governor for GA?

[William Thornton]

Not a snowball's chance in Gehenna. But let's dream:

http://time.com/5349541/stacey-abrams-georgia/

GOP candidate Kemp will have to crash and burn to lose.

[Joseph Patrick]

[Haruo]

[Stephen Fox]

William of Winder or close enough you were reading my mind on this one.

Scattershot as is my style but I get to the nuts and bolts of the matter. Have already brought this one to the attention of Meet the Press and several other national media outlets and let the Devil have the Hind Leg!!!

www.foxofbama.blogspot.com

[Stephen Fox]

According to Wiki Kemp is an active member of that congregation. He was educated in a prep school in Athens affiliated with the Church. I have attempted a facebook post on the church wall with a link to my blog about Vince Dooley and SEC.

The church is near enough William Thornton can drive over and have a conversation with the preacher about the NRA, Immigration etc and give us a report here.

I am active with friends in Episcopalian ministry in the vicinity.

[Sandy]

A Democrat won a senate seat in neighboring Alabama in a statewide race by simply turning out the same constituencies Abrams is aiming at landing. Jones won because Democratic constituencies that had been dormant for a while were activated by opposition to Moore, and by anti-Trump sentiment which turned out the numbers they needed. But Jones was a white male. Being an African American woman in a southern state like Georgia, even with anti-trump sentiment running as high as it is, might be a tougher proposition than it was for a non-resident Jewish male to gain 20 percentage points for his party in a special election runoff in the same state.

[KeithE]

[William Thornton]

Would put money on it. Take it to the bank. But it's a nice cover for Time and Abrams.

Seems I recall something about the GOP senate candidate who crashed and burned n Al...

[Lamar Wadsworth]

The buffoonery of Kemp talking about rounding up illegal aliens in the bed of his pickup truck brings to mind the racist buffoon Lester Maddox in the '60s chasing African-Americans out of his Pickrick Restaurant with an axe handle, selling autographed axe handles as campaign souvenirs, and riding a bicycle backwards. Kemp is more than capable of crashing and burning. For an increasing number of Georgians, a Trump endorsement is the kiss of death. I would not vote for anybody endorsed by Trump. Yes, here is one old white guy voting for Abrams on the first day of early voting. OK, I'm not exactly lily white--my Turner ancestors were Melungeons, what the old people called "Black Dutch." There's some Creek and Cherokee in the mix as well. Abrams has a powerful, compelling life story and she communicates it in a way that connects with people who have struggled all of their lives. She has such grace and dignity about her, especially in contrast with Kemp. She doesn't seem to hate anybody. She can work with halfway reasonable Republicans. I think Kemp will be easier to beat in the general election than Cagle would have been. My Roosevelt Democrat parents would have voted for her. The only time they ever voted for a Republican was when Bo Calloway ran against Lester Maddox for governor of Georgia in 1966 because Maddox's racist demagoguery went against everything they believed in.

[William Thornton]

I hear that Abrams needs about 25% of the white vote. Not sure she can get there. She's a good candidate.

[Dave Roberts]

My suspicion is that the election will depend on turnout in metro Atlanta. Georgia politics, like a lot of other states, seems dominated by the turnout in rural and small town areas.

[JE Pettibone]

[Sandy]

[Haruo]

I'm going to watch it. But I'm not sending her any money. That would be too much like the Russians.

[Dave Roberts]

[KeithE]

I was surprised about the degree of rural areas favoring Trump (except “black belts’) and urban areas (especially black neighborhoods) favoring Clinton.



Have fun.

[Joseph Patrick]

[William Thornton]

Hooey on the breathless claims of voter suppression. Page one of the democratic playbook.

Republicans in my state stink, exceeded in that only by the Democrats. I'm voting for Kemp, there's really not a choice here in the general, though I preferred another candidate in the primary.

Abrams would sandblast Lee, Davis, and Jackson off of Stone Mountain. She is the darling of the national media and deep pocket Dem donors, just like Michelle Nunn, daughter of Sam, was in the last senate election. The race is close. Abrams could win. Kemp isn't a strong candidate, frankly.

Since neither of our GOP senators is up for reelection this year, GOP interest may be flagging and turnout could favor an Abrams victory. Trump only won ga by five points, so the electoral landscape has shifted somewhat from what it was a decade ago.

Strong republican majorities in the state legislature would limit the damage she could do, though.

[KeithE]

[Dave Roberts]

If Kemp does not recuse himself for the process, he deserves to go to a different "state house," the one with bars on the windows and doors.

[Haruo]

Kemp is both governor and secy of state?

[Dave Roberts]

[Haruo]

Ah. He ought to be ashamed of himself.

[Sandy]

[William Thornton]

Hooey, hooey, and hooey. Voter registration is a joke. Anyone who wants to vote should have a confirmed identity. I have to show my ID at the poll and match my name and address on the roll. So should everyone else. This is another page in the dem playbook.

I'm voting for one dem in the statewide races..for sec of state. Guy I know. Only dem in the state that isn't a soros, pelosi, schumer pawn.