Discussion for article #229646
It seems like Georgia is turning more purple than the ruby red it has been in the last ten years (twenty if Zell Miller is an aberration - with the small exception of Max Cleland in 1996).
I wonder if Amanda Swafford sees more oxygen in the room for a 3rd party race due to some increasing demographic change. Georgia likely has to see some serious juice from a 3rd party candidate for a couple of statewide elections to fully elect someone outside of the typical two parties. So maybe that is contributing to her tenacity with this campaign.
Then again, I’m not deeply familiar with Swafford. She is running for Senate as a Libertarian, so maybe it’s just the same combination of eccentric/rich and a stubborn refusal to “play the game” in the nominating process that motivated her. Or for all I know she was hoping to be another Greg Orman.
But this is particularly interesting to me, because I’ve seen how much ATL has changed just in the last 5-10 years, and 5-10 years from now it will be all the more different. And that really impacts a lot of races, from the Presidential to a slew of statewide contests from formerly-solid-southern states abutting the Atlantic Coast (VA-NC-GA + FL). Watch this space.