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Don't it make my red states blue!
Georgia’s Toxic Voter Suppression Bill back in play
Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee!
Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free!
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea!
While we were marching through Georgia!
Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free!
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea!
While we were marching through Georgia!
The Georgia counties turning the state blue are growing. And quickly.
February 28, 2021
Last week, David Perdue announced he would not run to recapture his Senate seat in Georgia for the Republicans. Many in the political class wondered why a strong candidate with deep family ties and a history as an incumbent would take a pass at a chance to run again.
The answer might lie in broader political changes in Georgia itself.
While Joe Biden's presidential win in the state and the Senate victories of Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff were heralded as surprises in the last election cycle, a closer look at recent election data in the state shows they might be breakthroughs to a new norm, rather than simple 2020 shockers...
Biden did about 2.5 points better than Obama in the state, getting nearly 50 percent of the vote, while Obama didn't quite get to 47 percent in 2008...
[W]hen Hillary Clinton was the Democratic nominee, she received more than 45 percent of the vote in the state. That number was higher than the 43 percent and 41 percent that Democratic nominees Al Gore and John Kerry won in the state respectively in 2000 and 2004.
The reality is that the vote in Georgia has moved considerably in the last dozen years...
[S]even counties around Atlanta hold challenges for the GOP. They are very diverse, most have high percentages of college graduates and, perhaps most important, all of them are growing, and quickly.
Right now, Georgia looks a bit like Virginia did 12 years ago, a southern state being changed by a big, diversifying, educated metropolitan center. When Obama won Virginia in 2008, it was the sign of a deeper, long-term change afoot there.
The Georgia counties turning the state blue are growing. And quickly.
A closer look at election data in the state shows recent presidential and Senate wins might be breakthroughs to a new norm rather than simple 2020 shockers.
www.nbcnews.com
After the level of popular participation in the November election and the runoffs in January, and after threatening the Republican Secretary of State and his family failed to force him to falsify the legitimate results, the Republican-controlled Georgia legislature is desperately trying to erect barriers to prevent expression of the prevailing political sentiment, but demographic shifts in Georgia are inexorably following the pattern of Virginia.Georgia’s Toxic Voter Suppression Bill back in play
Georgia's Toxic Voter Suppression Bill back in play | Atlanta Daily World
People For the American Way: Georgia’s Toxic Voter Suppression Bill Washington, D.C. – Following the introduction in the Georgia legislature of HB 531, a package of voter suppression measures aimed squarely at Black and brown voters in the state, People For the American Way President Ben...
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