Georgia is now a toss up state.

[sufrommich]

Clinton, Trump Tied in Georgia: Poll

After decades as a reliably red state, Georgia may truly be a battleground come November.

A new poll from WSB-TV shows Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in a statistical tie for the presidency among Peach State voters.

Trump, the Republican nominee, holds a narrow edge over Clinton, the Democrat, in the poll -- 45.5 percent to 44.2 percent.

Libertarian Gary Johnson took just over 5 percent of support in the poll and Green Party nominee Jill Stein came in with 2.5 percent.



http://patch.com/georgia/loganville/poll-clinton-trump-tied-georgia

[book_worm]

1. And yesterday a St. Louis Post-Dispatch poll of Missouri gave HRC a 1-pt lead

[redstateblues]

2. That would be nice but don't count on it.

I lived in GA for a long time and I live next to GA now. Racism is still very prevalent everywhere but Atlanta.

[auntpurl]

3. Sure, but I'm from PA

Everything in PA besides Philly and Pittsburgh is, well, Alabama, basically. But Philly and Pittsburgh carry the state. IF the GOTV effort is good. Same could be true in GA.

[Dawgs]

7. Agree. I live in Georgia and there is a very slim chance that she will get within 5 points. nt

[Demsrule86]

10. Hillary is not a POC and Obama came close in 12.

My hubs Georgia GOP family and mine who have voted GOP faithfully are now voting for Hillary. I used to live in GA and have come to believe this state will turn red before Texas...this year would be great...not counting on it, but soon it will happen. As for racism, I live in Ohio, there are plenty of racists here...those sort live everywhere sadly.

[Wounded Bear]

19. You may want to edit this....

I used to live in GA and have come to believe this state will turn red before Texas

You sure you don't mean turn blue?

[greymattermom]

12. I live in Atlanta

and there is huge Hispanic population here. Atlanta has been growing, but not so much the rest of the state. Democrats here used to drive to Florida to work the phones. Maybe this year we can work from home.

[GaYellowDawg]

18. And Athens.

But Savannah... wow. Only a very thin veneer of civilization there.

[ecodeathmarch]

4. :)) blue Georgia

Not as good as blue Texas, but blue Georgia sounds good too

[sofa king]

5. Virginia checking in

We also are an archipelago of reason in an ocean of hateful ignorance. Where I live, pickup trucks proudly flying Confederate flags still do a ride-through of my town on Friday nights, then trundle off to their backwoods stills and marijuana farms. Yet Virginia is now a pretty solid Democratic state. Many of those same rednecks were forced into cities thanks to losing their jobs, homes, and health care, where their votes are easily absorbed.

Statewide elections are now so reliably Democratic that one cannot expect to win a Democratic nomination for Senator without first being the Governor.

[aikoaiko]

6. You're welcome, USA and world. As much shit as we've taken and often deserved, we've been trying.

Now we have to deliver in the GE.

[workinclasszero]

8. Wow awesome!!

[dawg]

9. We have a chance in Georgia.

It's actually closer here than it seems. The right-wingers run their mouths loudly and consistently. The liberals tend to keep their politics to themselves.

Romney carried the state in 2012 with 53.3% of the vote.

[Demsrule86]

11. Yeah I voted quietly in GA...as my hubs job was threatened if we were open

about our vote, but I have to do the same in Ohio sadly.

[dawg]

13. People that don't know me all that well just assume I'm a Republican.

I don't press my politics on anyone, because some of the "conservatives" tend to be vindictive and violent. But most of the people I count as my friends know where I stand.

[Demsrule86]

14. My friends knew.

Some were even closet Dems themselves. I lived in a nice middle-class /expensive area Town Lake in Woodstock before that Marietta...and yet the schools were awful. Not only were they weak in the curriculum, but they were huge and violent. I did not particularly like Georgia. I like Ohio way more. Don't get me wrong, there were some great people, and as I pointed out to another poster racism is not exclusive to the South...some of the worst I ever saw was in Boston. However, the traffic was awful took me an hour to get home...12 miles! Of course, the neighborhoods and tennis were great...love to play tennis and Atlanta is the tennis capital of the world. The neighborhood pools were great too. My kids loved them and white water was so close. We had season tickets every year. I miss that and my family who came because we were there and then we had to move for a job. My sis who is a Democrat married to a GOP who will not vote Trump and my brother and nieces and nephews are still there.

[dawg]

16. Woodstock is nice, but it's very conservative and traffic is awful.

I live in a small town out in the countryside. Atlanta isn't too far away. I have access to all of the cultural benefits available in such a large city. But I don't have to run the rat race and live amongst the sprawl.

I do think downtown is getting nicer (and Buckhead is nice as well); so it's becoming more and more possible to live a true urban lifestyle in the city. Those Northern suburbs are for the birds, though, if you have to drive anywhere during the day.

[Johnny2X2X]

15. PA and GA

According to this model, Hillary has a better chance to win GA than Trump has of winning PA. Wow.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential-polls-forecast.html?action=click&contentCollection=upshot&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=7&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=1

[dawg]

17. If 4% of us had switched our votes in 2012, Obama would have carried our state.

We're not as red as people think we are.