Discussion for article #229436
The Georgia Senatorial election will turn on 40,000+ voter registration forms the Secretary of State refuses to process.
1 Like
Maybe. I think Nunn still wins, the only real question is will she get over 50%?
And I am afraid that she probably doesn’t, which will send it to a run off election. That doesn’t bode well for her, as you can expect a massive drop off in voter participation.
I want to see Nunn win this race, but the plaintiffs in the Georgia case failed miserably to make their case. I’ve read the court’s opinion and it appears that the plaintiffs didn’t put on a single witness or offer up any other proof that the SOS has been dumping, hiding or otherwise fixing the voting rolls. I have my suspicions, but I was pretty surprised by the weakness of the plaintiffs’ case in court. Also, anyone who “registered” with the Project, but whose name hasn’t made it to the official rolls can still vote if they bring whatever registration information they used when they thought they signed-up with the Project. And anyone else can also vote provisionally and then bring in the necessary information within a few days of the election. Maybe I’m missing something here, but I can’t help thinking that perhaps this has been a Project ploy to gin up the Democratic base vote. I’d be happy to be shown to be wrong.
Interesting article and a good comparison between the Ernst and Perdue campaigns.
I personally think that, overall, this midterm is much more localized than nationalized.
Take the Perdue example from another perspective. No other republican candidate is running for the “Romney” wing except Perdue.
Likewise Nunn, and Grimes in KY as well, are keeping quite a bit of distance between themselves and the President and national Democratic leaders. To a lesser degree, the same can be said for Pryor, Begich and Landrieu.
Or take Kansas as an even better example.What is happening there within the GOP is entirely a localized event.
The fun part for me has been watching how the national media continues to try and tie this disparate races into some sort of manageable national theme, because, hey, that’s much easier and cheaper to report. The Obamacare referendum version 8 (or whatever version number they thought they were on then) died immediately. The republican wave meme never materialized, so it has been thrown to the curb.
Candy Crowely’s pathetic whine fest with the two national chairs Sunday was again another attempt at trying to find a single national theme…and of course, it too failed.
1 Like