EXPLAINER: Why the AP hasn't called Georgia's close race

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Georgia has long been a Republican stronghold. Voters there haven’t swung for a Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton in 1992. Trump beat Hillary Clinton there by 5 percentage points in 2016. And the state’s government is dominated by the GOP.

But the party’s grip has loosened. As older, white, Republican-leaning voters die, they are being replaced by younger and more racially diverse cast of people, many of whom moved to the booming Atlanta area from other states — and brought their politics with them.

Overall, demographic trends show that the state’s electorate is becoming younger and more diverse each year. Like other metro areas, Atlanta’s suburbs have also moved away from Republicans. In 2016, Hillary Clinton flipped both Cobb and Gwinnett counties, where Biden is currently leading.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-ap-top-news-georgia-atlanta-b7f26a8ff881fb63d462bf788e8e601c

[Fahrenthold451]

1. That and also

It's insanely close.

[11 Bravo]

2. THIS

[DLCWIdem]

3. Isn't Biden still down?

[LeftInTX]

5. yes, by 7,000 votes

[CousinIT]

4. More likely it's this:

55m ago / 4:54 PM EST

Georgia election official says state still has more than 47,000 ballots to count

Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer of the Georgia secretary of state’s office, appeared less confident Thursday afternoon that his state would quickly wrap up the counting of votes.

As of 3 p.m. ET, he said that there were 47,277 ballots outstanding that needed to be counted. About 17,000 of those ballots are in Chatham County, where Savannah is located and where the process is moving slowly. Other counties that are still counting ballots include several in the Atlanta metro area.

Sterling said Thursday afternoon that the state is using paper ballots for the first time in 20 years, the counting of which is "going to take time." When asked for a timeline on when Georgia might finish, he said, "done is a very relative term at this point" because so many races are so close across the state.

Earlier in the day, when Georgia still had 61,000 uncounted ballots, Sterling told reporters at the state Capitol in Atlanta, “We anticipate getting through this process today."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/live-blog/2020-11-05-trump-biden-election-results-n1246510?icid=election_nav

[NurseJackie]

6. What a wonderful sentiment and explanation.

As older, white, Republican-leaning voters die, they are being replaced by younger and more racially diverse cast of people, many of whom moved to the booming Atlanta area from other states — and brought their politics with them.

What a wonderful sentiment and explanation.

[llmart]

7. I actually believe this is happening in general all over this country.

As much as trumpers think this isn't true, our population is just getting more and more diverse and the younger generations don't really have as much of a problem with that diversity as prior generations. This is all a very good trend as far as I'm concerned.