Stacey Abrams for Governor of Georgia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She will never be elected in GA. Her dumb foot in her mouth cost her the election. Of course, having already lost she never concede and is convinced she is governor. Her time is done!

+1 she just wants to see if she can catch a wave.

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As seen in 2020 Abrams’ greatest strength is getting people out to vote, not running for office. She should be traveling and mobilizing Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters nationwide to get to the polls in 2022 and 2024. Instead, she’s going to waste a lot of time, money, and effort to rack up a second loss on her political scoresheet.

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Anonymous wrote:As seen in 2020 Abrams’ greatest strength is getting people out to vote, not running for office. She should be traveling and mobilizing Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters nationwide to get to the polls in 2022 and 2024. Instead, she’s going to waste a lot of time, money, and effort to rack up a second loss on her political scoresheet.

Which Democrat would have been a better option?

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Anonymous wrote:As seen in 2020 Abrams’ greatest strength is getting people out to vote, not running for office. She should be traveling and mobilizing Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters nationwide to get to the polls in 2022 and 2024. Instead, she’s going to waste a lot of time, money, and effort to rack up a second loss on her political scoresheet.

Which Democrat would have been a better option?

None. She is a super talented charismatic intelligent principled pol who nearly won the Governor’s house in 2018. And her profile is much higher now along with her accomplishments of flipping two Georgia Senate seats blue which made all the difference for Biden

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As seen in 2020 Abrams’ greatest strength is getting people out to vote, not running for office. She should be traveling and mobilizing Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters nationwide to get to the polls in 2022 and 2024. Instead, she’s going to waste a lot of time, money, and effort to rack up a second loss on her political scoresheet.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:As seen in 2020 Abrams’ greatest strength is getting people out to vote, not running for office. She should be traveling and mobilizing Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters nationwide to get to the polls in 2022 and 2024. Instead, she’s going to waste a lot of time, money, and effort to rack up a second loss on her political scoresheet.

Which Democrat would have been a better option?

None. She is a super talented charismatic intelligent principled pol who nearly won the Governor’s house in 2018. And her profile is much higher now along with her accomplishments of flipping two Georgia Senate seats blue which made all the difference for Biden

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I live in DC but vote legally in GA. I will be voting for Abrams. I agree she hasn't been strategic this time around. I'll still vote for her because Kemp is an awful human being. However, I actually don't think anything will change remarkably in Ga even if Abrams does win (or any Democrat, really). That's because the problem is not (just) the politicians, but the general populace. It's more or less a state where half the people wouldn't mind reverting back to Jim Crow if were socially acceptable. That's the mindset in which they make their voting decisions. Additionally, the culture is not one of improving oneself in any meaningful way. I lived there for nearly 15 years so feel I can speak on this. It's basically last in everything (education, healthcare, equity) and it's a terrible place to be a person of color. It's not actually great to be a person of color anywhere in the US, but its especially terrible in Ga. The overt and microaggressions are on a total different scale than the DC area.

Your opinions are in sync with those of your preferred candidate. There are many persons of color in Georgia who strongly disagree with your opinion of their state. They are professionals of varying ages who love living in Georgia

Disagree strongly would be a stretch. My son lives in Atlanta. He loves it. Does he think it's racist? Hell yes. Does he think it could be better. Oh yes. He's black.

If it were terrible to live in Georgia, a smart, successful Black male would leave. Yes, improvement is needed; but it's clearly not the worst state in which to live. Not by any measure.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a Georgia Democrat and my prediction is that this gaffe has destroyed Abrams’ chances of winning. It doesn’t matter how many northeast liberals cheer at her indictment of Georgia. None of you get to vote here.

Abrams is going to lose by a much wider margin this time and she has no one to blame but herself and her northeast handlers.

The fact that she’s doubling down on these stupid comments instead of trying to walk them back and mend fences tells me she doesn’t understand Georgia and would make a poor governor. I’m over her.

+1 fellow Georgian here, and I initially supported her

uh huh

You don't have to believe me. Doesn't change the facts. I loved her interviews, especially one in which she articulated her views on gun control. She began, "Look, I'm from Mississippi" and discussed family members who hunted. She's candid, highly intelligent, and dedicated to getting out the vote. You can't win an election by demeaning the state in which you seek office.

Again, people, everyone running against an incumbent points out problems with how the incumbent is running things. This level of vitriol about it is ridiculous.

PP here. Vitriol reflected on my post?? Not at all

Dude, if that comment pushed you to vote for Kemp, you were always voting for Kemp. GMAFB.

PP here. Dude, the voting for next governor hasn't started yet. We've only had the primary.

Yes, and now it moves to a contest between Abrams and Kemp, and you just said that previously you'd considered voting for Abrams but that comment made you reconsider. And I'm saying if that you can wipe your very concerned look off your face.

You like to argue. I was trying to share my opinion on an anonymous forum. Enjoy your day.

DP from Georgia. Georgian PP is correct that this comment is not going over well at all. Southerners are aware of how they are perceived by northern liberals and this disdainful comment does indeed make it appear that Abrams may be disdainful of them and not able to really understand and advocate for Georgia. The fact is, Georgia is on a great trajectory but it has a large and diverse rural population that sometimes struggles with poverty. But this rural population has a different set of values and perspectives than progressives, so Abrams has a way to go to reach this group. Her comments do not inspire trust.

was she ever going to make inroads with rural voters?

i’m not saying they were great comments but i’d rather hear what people who might vote for her think than people who elect mtg tbh? or do i not understand georgia well enough?

Speaking as someone who voted for her last time, her comments give me pause. A lot of northeast liberals really don’t get that southerners don’t want your way of life nor do we want your values.

Those of us who vote D are still pretty moderate. We want medicaid extended. Less racism. Better healthcare, especially in rural areas. Better schools. Better public transportation.

We don’t want every single inch of land covered in condos, co-ops, and apartment buildings in the name of “affordable housing.” We don’t want anti-faith values that render morality a curse word and see Christians assumed to be stupid. We don’t want to spend our waking lives working to make partner or managing director, with children conceived by ART super late and then delegated to nannies. We want actual time, and lots of it with family, not just “quality time” on occasion. We like our slower, kinder way of life in which people say hello, ma’am, and hold doors. That cuts across races. The whole suspicious, cold, aggressive, degree-accumulating progressive striver persona that’s always looking down on others and competing is out of place here. We don’t want to be that and we don’t want to raise that.

So, when Stacey talks the way she’s been talking, she others herself. She sounds like the northeast liberals we shudder at—the ones we keep at arm’s length with politeness when they move down here. It makes us want her to go away and run for governor of New York or California. Georgia is different and we want a governor who values that. She’s going to have an uphill climb convincing people she actually wants to be governor of Georgia and isn’t just holding her nose using this position as a stepping stone.

Many of you refuse to get that Georgians like ourselves and our state regardless of problems. When she loses in November, come back and read my post again.

This is a wonderful example of how Republicans are able to consistently beat Democrats, even in areas where MOST are moderate voters. People only vote Democrat if that person alligns with 100% of the things a voter wants them to. If they are too progressive or not progressive enough on ANY single issue, they are not worthy of the Dem vote.
On the other hand, Republicans band together knowing that in their minds, ANY Republican will get them closer to the life they want than any Democrat so they overlook glaringly obvious issues/statements/facts to elect their person.
Democrats consistently throw out good candidates for not being perfect and it is killing us at all levels.
Do I love Joe Biden? NOPE. really really don't like him. BUT his policies and what he stands for will get me closer to my values/the America I want than any Republican (who would run today, there were some Rs i actually liked).

So, here we go around and around. R's can grab people by the p**** and Dems can't say a dang thing that could be even remotely 'rude, progressive, moderate, aggressive or anything else to turn off a voter'. Got it.

PP here. I don’t consider myself a Democrat, honey. I’ve *voted* Democrat, but I’ve voted Republican too. People down here do things like that. I vote based on which candidate represents more of the issues important to me at any given time. I love virtually all of the laws Kemp has spearheaded this year. What has Abrams done beyond yammer about voter suppression that didn’t happen, kiss up to northeast liberals, and, now, badmouth Georgia? She’s not going to lock up my vote just for being a Democrat. You can keep that blind, partisan approach to politics.

What policies that Kemp enacted do you love? And why?

PP here. A non-exhaustive list:

Suspension of gas tax and extension of that suspension
Greater punishment for street racing, convicted felons caught with guns, and sex offenders using social media
Tuition reimbursement for service members who enroll in law enforcement training
Pay increases and enhanced retirement funds for law enforcement
Parents’ bill of rights
Sport commission that segregates Georgia sports by sex, not gender
Special tax refund out of state surplus

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Apparently record turnout in Georgia.

I thought the new measures in place were going to stop people voting?

That’s what the democrats swore up and down.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently record turnout in Georgia.

I thought the new measures in place were going to stop people voting?

That’s what the democrats swore up and down.

It's not that the new Jim Crow laws aren't suppressive, it's that the targeted groups are determined not to allow anti-democratic losers keep them from voting.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently record turnout in Georgia.

I thought the new measures in place were going to stop people voting?

That’s what the democrats swore up and down.

It's not that the new Jim Crow laws aren't suppressive, it's that the targeted groups are determined not to allow anti-democratic losers keep them from voting.

So that is why the Republicans had record turnout?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently record turnout in Georgia.

I thought the new measures in place were going to stop people voting?

That’s what the democrats swore up and down.

It's not that the new Jim Crow laws aren't suppressive, it's that the targeted groups are determined not to allow anti-democratic losers keep them from voting.

Nice try. Calling the GA law "Jim Crow 2.0" is insulting and blatantly false. And, it has backfired on Abrams, Biden, and every Democrat who said such stupidity.
Read about the *actual* Jim Crow voting laws and educate yourself. Nothing that has been enacted by any state comes even close to what happened in the late 1800's. And, using this term to describe new voting laws shows your ignorance.
https://www.history.com/news/jim-crow-laws-black-vote

Now we know what Biden said was scurrilously untrue. Georgia held its first primary on Tuesday under its new election law — and saw record turnout. Far from suppressing the vote, early voting came in at nearly triple Georgia’s 2018 level. Four years ago, just 299,347 cast early in-person ballots in the midterm primaries. This year, 857,401 Georgians cast in-person or absentee ballots during the state’s three-week early-voting period, according to the secretary of state’s office. That is 212 percent more than in 2020 — a presidential election year, which usually boosts turnout — when just 326,351 people cast early ballots. The Post reports that the “record-breaking turnout is undercutting predictions that the Georgia Election Integrity Act of 2021 would lead to a falloff in voting.”

Biden claimed that Republicans were targeting Black voters. Well, according to National Review, which cited data from the Georgia secretary of state’s office, at least 102,056 more Black voters cast early ballots this year than in 2018 — a more than threefold increase. One 70-year-old Black retiree, Patsy Reid, told The Post that she was surprised she hadn’t encountered problems when she voted early. “I had heard that they were going to try to deter us in any way possible,” Reid said. “To go in there and vote as easily as I did and to be treated with the respect that I knew I deserved as an American citizen — I was really thrown back.”

She was thrown because of Biden’s falsehoods. The president said in March 2021 that the law “ends voting hours early.” The same week, he also said: “It’s sick. It’s sick.” In fact, the law added a second Saturday of early voting — and 4,081 people voted on that additional Saturday this year. It mandated the use of drop boxes for the first time and expanded the forms of acceptable voter identification to include a utility bill, bank statement, government check or paycheck, or even the last four digits of the voter’s Social Security number. The net effect, The Post’s Fact Checker found last year, “was to expand the opportunities to vote for most Georgians, not limit them.”

Biden owes Reid and the other people of Georgia an apology. So does Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, who moved the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB draft away from Atlanta in protest over the voting law. “Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box,” he declared from a pinnacle of near-perfect ignorance. His decision is estimated to have cost local Atlanta businesses more than $100 million, with minority-owned businesses hit particularly hard. The blow came as many businesses were struggling to recover from pandemic lockdowns. In the wake of Georgia’s record turnout, they now might ask: Where do we go to get our All-Star Game revenue back?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/27/georgia-primary-turnout-exposes-falsehood-in-biden-claims/

[Anonymous]

It is so important to understand that Jim Crow 2.0 was foiled by Stacey’s leadership.

This is a second Alabama bus boycott. Read your history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is so important to understand that Jim Crow 2.0 was foiled by Stacey’s leadership.

This is a second Alabama bus boycott. Read your history.

Not true. Not even close.