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bucolic_frolic

(43,236 posts)
Fri Dec 4, 2020, 04:26 PM Dec 2020

Why did Georgia flip?




Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Rep.-elect Nikema Williams, chair of the Georgia Democratic Party: "This election was never about just Donald Trump for us. It was never about one election cycle. It was about giving power back to the people, making people's voices heard." @MSNBC
3:00 PM · Dec 4, 2020·TweetDeck

We're not giving this enough attention. Georgia voters threw off their shackles. Whether it was 2018 and Stacy Abrams and grass roots, or dislike of Trump or dislike of their GOP Senate candidates .... something really miraculous happened here. Texas was almost Texas, but Georgia was Georgia. Gives room for optimism on January 5, 2021.

GOTV. Go Blue, Georgia!
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Lucinda

(31,170 posts)
3. The state knew they lost Stacey Abrams as Gov in the last election because of shenanigans
Fri Dec 4, 2020, 04:40 PM
Dec 2020

That was enough to motivate the state voters - and Abrams and her team - to move mountains to cut-off the corruption in current election practices.

Also much the South is gerrymandered to deliver GOP votes - which they can't get any other way.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. This is the real reason.
Fri Dec 4, 2020, 05:19 PM
Dec 2020

Once the word was out that Abrams loss was documented in the corruption of Kemp,the AA as well as other Minority Communities knew enough was enough and pressured the Georgia Legislature to change the rules and allow Mail in Voting as well as Voter Registration without reprisal.

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