Georgia's shifting politics force GOP to look beyond Atlanta

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

TOCCOA, Ga. (AP) — When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp made one of his first general election campaign swings in August, he went straight to the modern heartland of the state's Republican Party.

It wasn't Buckhead, the glitzy Atlanta neighborhood where Kemp lives in a governor's mansion dwarfed by other nearby estates. And it wasn't suburban Cobb County, once the bastion of Newt Gingrich.

Instead, Kemp kept going north, deep into the Georgia mountains that have become one of the most Republican areas in the country over the last three decades. He stopped at a gas station turned coffee shop in Toccoa to urge people to “turn out an even bigger vote here in this county and in northeast Georgia than we’ve ever seen before.”

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The emphasis on this rural region represents a notable shift in the GOP's strategy in Georgia. The party grew into a powerhouse in Georgia once it began combining a strong performance in the Atlanta suburbs with growing dominance in rural areas. But that coalition has frayed in recent years as voters in the booming Atlanta region rejected the GOP under former President Donald Trump, turning this onetime Republican stronghold into the South's premier swing state.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgias-shifting-politics-force-gop-042108973.html

[TheRealNorth]

1. Hope the Democratic Party has people watching the vote in the rural areas closely

Because when they accuse us of breaking a law (like election fraud), it usually means that they are doing it.

And as anyone who has worked in government in rural areas knows, it is far easier to get away with corruption in small rural governments than in big bureaucracies.

[napi21]

3. I know Marcus Flowers is running hard against MTG & she's been sticking her foot in her mouth quite

often lately. Problem is Rome is really, really RED! I've given him some change (what I could afford). I wish him luck!

[jpak]

2. Boy, I could go for a bag of boiled peanuts right now

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