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Ed has a great analysis of the issues, the personalities, and the Republican state of play here.
But this is not going to be an ordinary election. The national Republican policy of doing all they can to discourage voting by Democrats is the reason.
So this is a land war, and it has been going on for months. Nunn is not “biding her time.” Neither is Carter. Both are funding an organization that has been quietly registering black and brown and Asian Democrats, helping them get valid IDs, and energizing them for long waits, for months.
It’s the success or failure of these efforts that will determine the outcome. Nunn and Carter may be names, but they’re generic Democrats. Perdue and Kingston may have been foes, but they’re generic Republicans. If this were an air war I’d say the GOP had a huge advantage in Georgia. But it’s not. It’s a land war. It’s invisible. We can’t know until November whether it has succeeded or failed.
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This is a great analysis.
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“Gingrey, never the sharpest tool in the congressional shed…” Are you suggesting that he’s stupider than Broun? Sweet Jesus.
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Winning ugly must be worth it to Republicans, since they never win any other way.
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YIKES!!!
“Rep. Phil Gingrey says migrants may be bringing Ebola virus through the U.S.-Mexico border”
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And this all demonstrates clearly that you can be batshtcrazy and win handily in the Republican Cult, but you can never be batshtcrazy enough.
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Ed is an old school air warrior. Forgive him for failing to understand the new reality. These days television ads are like yard signs. Nice ot have but if you want to win you have to get the voters attention in other ways.
The fact is television isn’t the dominant deliverer of information it was a few short years ago.
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What’s the organization? I might want to contribute…
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I am glad that Kingston, the Chamber of Commerce candidate lost. The Chamber of Commerce is a cancer on American democracy. It is infested with criminals and fraudsters who want to destroy individual rights and establish a corporate kleptocracy in America.
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The vast majority of supposed mainstream “professional journalists” are completely ignorant of just how completely the Republican Party has been taken over by the philosophical descendants of the John Birch Society, which is known today as the teabagging GOP base.
The “establishment” members of the GOP understand this, as this op-ed from back in 2012 shows. Needless to say, I have no sympathy for any of them:
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I’ll be voting for Michelle Nunn & Jason Carter come November. (as a white, middle + aged male).
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Georgians are working overtime to make sure only the “right” kind of people vote … putting early polling places inside police stations, cutting back the total number of polling places, etc.
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You think the G.O.P. runoff was “ugly”? That was a light spin compared with the heavy duty cycle Nunn’s going to get.
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I wasn’t surprised by Perdue’s win. He was going to win in a low turnout vote. What caught me a little off guard is while visiting several rightwing blogs like the Peach Pundit who are usually all in for anything and everything to the right and republican, how unenthusiastic the commenters were…some admitted they didnt even vote because they didnt like any of their choices. That is HUGE and bodes very well for Nunn. Georgia might be conservative…but the enthusiasm gap is ever widening in democrats favor. Also organizations like Better Georgia have been pretty quick and nimble in attacking republicans…you wanna support a blue organization in GA…that would be my pick
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Not true. They’d have to be blind. Problem is they need to pretend not to notice - that’s how they keep up the ‘both sides do it’ and ‘horse race’ stuff.
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now thats a race to see who is stupider and they both come in first second and third
Thats like asking whether its better to burn to death in a fire or be thrown off the top of a skyscraper…neither is ideal, and you’re dead just the same when its over
Dude. Skyscraper. No debate on that one.
How sweet would these two wins be? Sweet as a Georgia peach I reckon.
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