Nunn comes out swinging at GA Dem convention in Dublin - no more kid gloves

[JRP1994]

http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2014/08/09/no-more-ms-nice-nunn/

"“Now let me tell you a little bit about David Perdue’s real world.
“Mr. Perdue is a man who has managed to make a lot of money in business. And we applaud success. But for some reason, those who worked with him…didn’t come out nearly as well.
“In our neighboring state of North Carolina, my opponent managed to make millions of dollars for less than a year’s worth of work, but almost 8,000 people lost their jobs when the company went bankrupt….
“Under his watch, one of his companies was investigated by the federal government for discriminating against women. And his firm was forced to pay, to more than 2,000 female employees, more than $20 million for not paying them equally and not treating them equally.
“Too often, Mr. Perdue seems to have prospered while those who worked with him suffered. He’s a man who time after time put his own profit ahead of [others]. Sadly, David Perdue’s real world does not include us….”
“He complained of Washington as usual during the campaign, but within minutes of winning the election, he declared that this race would be about prosecuting this administration. Prosecute? That sounds an awful lot like Washington as usual.”

[Never]

So Nunn's strategy is to make Perdue seem like Romney? I don't see how that will work, considering Georgia is a state that Mitt won in 2012.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

So Nunn's strategy is to make Perdue seem like Romney? I don't see how that will work, considering Georgia is a state that Mitt won in 2012.

His opponent was black. Though Perdue's is a woman, so...

[Never]

So Nunn's strategy is to make Perdue seem like Romney? I don't see how that will work, considering Georgia is a state that Mitt won in 2012.

His opponent was black. Though Perdue's is a woman, so...

So if Obama were white, he would have won Georgia? I have my doubts about that. I think it boils down to Georgia being a Republican state for now.

[7,052,770]

At least she's going down swinging at her opponent, unlike that idiot in WV who's going down swinging at Obama.

[moderatevoter]

At least she's going down swinging at her opponent, unlike that idiot in WV who's going down swinging at Obama.

In all fairness, Obama has a 25% approval rating in West Virginia. What else is Tennant supposed to do?

[Adam Griffin]

Good. She needs to tie him to the tractor and drag him through the field kicking and screaming, Romney-style.

[Bacon King]

This is what a winning GA Democratic campaign looks like, people. Our state's elections are always brutally negative but for the last decade GA Dem statewide candidates have been flaccid on the attack and allowed the GOP's offense to define the campaign. Our state party chairman (who is a hands-on leader, he literally handpicked all the statewide candidates) may be from the old guard, but this is the tried and tested play book that kept GA a one-party state for a full decade after the 1994 realignment

[henster]

She would have a better shot at winning in 2016 if Isakson retires.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Lolz. "Vote for me because my opponent is rich!" Such substance.

[Flake]

Lolz. "Vote for me because my opponent is rich!" Such substance.

More like "Vote for me because my opponent doesn't care about people he represents."

[muon2]

I was at breakfast at the Hampton Inn in Dublin GA on Sat morning. While I was discussing the CNN news with my daughter, a gentleman at the neighboring table asked me if I was there for the Dem convention, and did I know where the meeting was that morning. I told him I was just passing through, and I didn't mention my political activities. Apparently he was not the only convention goer staying there, since I saw a number of Nunn and Carter bumper stickers in the lot as I left.

[GaussLaw]

Nunn is definitely a formidable candidate, but Georgia's PVI + Obama's low approval rating + a decent GOP candidate make it a tough hurdle to overcome.

More polls are definitely needed on this race, especially after negative ads start.

[DrScholl]

Perdue made a huge gaffe (although, most here insisted it was meaningless) about needing a college degree to be credible. That is already material for a negative ad and if he continues to talk like that, it will play into the theme Nunn is using.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Don't know why this is news.  Democrats in the South aren't going to win by being socially liberal, so they often mimic Republicans on social issues.  What that leaves them (and what they've always gone with as a strategy) with being fiscal populists who paint Republicans as out-of-touch with the average American.  "He doesn't care about folks like you, but I (another rich politician) sure do!"  Good luck with that.

[JRP1994]

New Nunn ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTREGpKHHKQ

[Badger]

So Nunn's strategy is to make Perdue seem like Romney? I don't see how that will work, considering Georgia is a state that Mitt won in 2012.

His opponent was black. Though Perdue's is a woman, so...

So if Obama were white, he would have won Georgia? I have my doubts about that. I think it boils down to Georgia being a Republican state for now.

To better refine Clinton1996's argument, Nunn isn't Obama, so she has a chance.

[NHLiberal]

New Nunn ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTREGpKHHKQ

Good ad. Love how Nunn felt the need to ad that it was George HW Bush's foundation

[moderatevoter]

New Nunn ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTREGpKHHKQ

Good ad. Love how Nunn felt the need to ad that it was George HW Bush's foundation

Hasn't she done that in like every single ad, to the point where it pissed Poppy Bush off?

[free my dawg]

New Nunn ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTREGpKHHKQ

Good ad. Love how Nunn felt the need to ad that it was George HW Bush's foundation

Hasn't she done that in like every single ad, to the point where it pissed Poppy Bush off?

She's done it before, but HW hasn't outright condemned it. He just did the usual "vote Republican" spiel.

[moderatevoter]

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Link.

[Adam Griffin]

The full speech from the convention (Nunn & Carter)