Georgia's Very Own Megathread!

[Bacon King]

I have not checked, and am on my phone so cannot currently check, but I am willing to bet real money that there were competitive dem primaries for some office like sheriff in all those double digit counties. Especially Atkinson

[windjammer]

BK, no Bacon King's family tracker update?

[Bacon King]

BK, no Bacon King's family tracker update?

BK Family Tracker Update: bitter infighting regarding the estate of my recently deceased grandparents precludes the possibility of polite discussion regarding politics or any other issue

[windjammer]

BK, no Bacon King's family tracker update?

BK Family Tracker Update: bitter infighting regarding the estate of my recently deceased grandparents precludes the possibility of polite discussion regarding politics or any other issue

Oh, I'm really sorry .

[Adam Griffin]

RGA just did a $500k ad buy in Georgia for a Jason Carter/Obamacare ad:

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Seeing this size of an ad buy this early in GA by the RGA...imagine what their internals must be showing.

[Miles]

Handel and Herschel Walker are endorsing Kingston.

[RogueBeaver]

Price endorses Kingston.

[TX Conservative Dem]

Anyone watched OWN's The Halves & Have Nots ?

I find it odd that they've got a corrupt Criminal Courts judge running for the Georgia governorship: very Charles Logan-esque.

[nolesfan2011]

With Handel and others like Price coalescing behind Kingston I feel like the runoff is sort of already over unless he makes a huge gaffe, Perdue made the mistake of antagonizing all of his primary opponents, so now they are all getting behind his opponent and their supporters will too, his money got him first place but he's not liked enough to win this because most of the non top 2 support is going to go to Kingston, or at least enough of a majority for him to win by some margin in the runoff.

[Bacon King]

With Handel and others like Price coalescing behind Kingston I feel like the runoff is sort of already over unless he makes a huge gaffe, Perdue made the mistake of antagonizing all of his primary opponents, so now they are all getting behind his opponent and their supporters will too, his money got him first place but he's not liked enough to win this because most of the non top 2 support is going to go to Kingston, or at least enough of a majority for him to win by some margin in the runoff.

It's a common misconception that a failed primary candidate's voters generally care about their endorsement in the runoff. The simple arithmetic of something like "Handel + Kingston > Perdue" is especially not as straightforward as you might think because its not like Handel will keep paying her staffers to run a GOTV effort on her supporters in the runoff

[Adam Griffin]

Just an update: now that the county-certified results from the primary are in, I've went back and revised the map I shared last week accordingly. Very small changes for the most part; reduced Dem performance in the Republican areas and increased Dem performance in the urban areas is the overall trend, both between 2010 and 2014 and between my first version and now. That's what I get for being giddy and trying to do it before the cities have certified. At the county level - particularly in South Georgia - some big swings between what was being shown on last Wednesday morning and today, some of which seem suspiciously large. You can find the interactive version here.

[Adam Griffin]

And just a summary:

[Adam Griffin]

Carter's first ads are online.

I think they'll play well.

[Miles]

This should help Kingston make inroads near Atlanta:

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[JRP1994]

http://www.surveyusa.com/index.php/2014/06/06/kingston-atop-perdue-in-gop-runoff-for-us-senate-and-right-to-face-nunn-in-november-deal-maintains-lead-over-carter-for-governor/

Kinston 52%, Perdue 41%

Kingston 43%, Nunn 37%

Perdue 43%, Nunn 38%

Deal 44%, Carter 38%

I've decided that I'm going to troll the GOP runoff by voting for Perdue.

[Adam Griffin]

Looks like some of Georgia's anti-gun cities may just start naming all of their government buildings "the courthouse", or adding a courthouse function to their city halls to get around HB 60:

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I, for one, am grateful that our city hall and the county courthouse are already both inside one larger building.

[Adam Griffin]

Attention whoring: Carter and others came to my party's fundraising dinner we had last night, which we decided to rename from Jefferson-Jackson to Kennedy-Carter. Myself and others worked weeks to put it together, was the first one we've had in several years and was arguably the best Democratic dinner that NGA has had in many years. All in all, we got around 300 people to fork over dough to come, which made it the largest Democratic gathering in NGA since 2008. I should have some video/photos in the next day or two. In one of the photos in the article, you'll see me looking creepy in the background.

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[Barnes]

If any observers are interested in the media market battle, Deal and Carter both recently unveiled a few new TV ads for the election: http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2014/06/19/nathan-deal-jason-carter-trade-blows-over-education-with-nasty-attack-ads/

Carter's ads really lack the clarity necessary to pin Deal down on his dramatic cuts to education funding and to HOPE; Deal, like any Republican here, doesn't really have to say much to rile up opposition to a Democrat, which does then make the second ad's focus on specific numbers rather entertaining.

[Barnes]

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, David Ralston, is facing serious ethics complaints in his capacity as an attorney. He could very possibly be disbarred in the near future. Ralston's reelection is all but assured, but this could imperil his position as Speaker in the next legislature.

http://m.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/speaker-david-ralston-faces-investigation-possible/ngTGW/

[Bacon King]

Jack Kingston has a great radio ad up on the big conservative talk radio stations, featuring a great Obama impersonation:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2gTI_bAPqM

[NHLiberal]

Jack Kingston has a great radio ad up on the big conservative talk radio stations, featuring a great Obama impersonation:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2gTI_bAPqM

Excellent ad; excellent strategy. Very well played on the Kingston campaign's part

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Jack Kingston has a great radio ad up on the big conservative talk radio stations, featuring a great Obama impersonation:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2gTI_bAPqM

Excellent ad; excellent strategy. Very well played on the Kingston campaign's part

[badgate]

Adam, congrats on the successful Kennedy-Carter dinner!

TXDems recently renamed our dinner too, to Johnson-Jordan (LBJ, Barbara Jordan)

[Adam Griffin]

Adam, congrats on the successful Kennedy-Carter dinner!

TXDems recently renamed our dinner too, to Johnson-Jordan (LBJ, Barbara Jordan)

Thanks!


Clayton County makes the move to finally bring MARTA in (bus and rail), which is in large part thanks to the purge of whites in the county (between 1990 & 2012, Clayton's demographics were the fastest-shifting of any county in the nation; from 73% white in 1990 to 13% white today):

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[Indy Texas]

Why did so many whites leave Clayton County? And where did they go? To further outlying Atlanta area counties?