Georgia's Very Own Megathread!

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Dekalb is all in.

[Young Conservative]

A Mary Norwood win would be amazing for Atlanta. I'm pulling for her pro-business policies.

[Roronoa D. Law]

I advise everyone to listen to this clip of Norwood. https://twitter.com/IsaacHayes3/status/936703133333549062

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

She claimed she was a "Progressive Democrat."

I honestly don't care if she wins, it will bother me if Trump and the GOP takes this as if it's some sort of MAGAmentum and brag about it.

[heatcharger]

A Mary Norwood win would be amazing for Atlanta. I'm pulling for her pro-business policies.

Where exactly have you seen her pro-business policies? I'm genuinely curious. Sure, being diverse and tolerant are pro-business, but it's not like Keisha Lance-Bottoms wouldn't meet those requirements either.

I think Norwood would be fine but she seems like a NIMBY and too car-centric for a city that needs to expand public transit, so I suppose I want to see KLB win here.

[QAnonKelly]

Patrick who do you think is going to win? It looks like Mary is underperforming in Dekalb.

From what we have so far I see a narrow Bottoms win. While the Buckhead portion is large in area it is very sparsely populated compared to the rest of the COA. Norwood needs to do better especially before SWAT come in.  

Is Atlanta like Virginia in that at first the Republican is winning and then begins to slide towards the Democrat?

Right now it's mostly results from the North/Eastern parts of ATL where it's whiter and less populated. Once we start getting more south, Bottoms should take the lead.

[Holmes]

Me in 2030: can't wait to see the results of the 2017 Atlanta mayor race.

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The GA GOP if Norwood wins as an "Independent"

[scutosaurus]

I advise everyone to listen to this clip of Norwood. https://twitter.com/IsaacHayes3/status/936703133333549062

I have heard the clip many times, and, to be honest, it doesn't matter at all to me. Yes, Norwood is almost certainly a Republican, albeit a liberal Republican, who actually has a more progressive voting record on the Atlanta City Council than Keisha Lance Bottoms does. However, when it comes to local politics, pragmatism and integrity should ideally be much more important than partisanship, and to vote for a candidate because they're a partisan Democrat is no better than someone voting for Trump or Moore because of the (R)s beside their names. (And no, I'm not trying to compare Bottoms to Trump or Moore. That would be ridiculous.)

Yes, there are many problems with both Mary Norwood and Keisha Lance Bottoms. Although, to me, Bottoms' corruption is a much heavier weight than Norwood's issues, I can easily see how one would feel the opposite way. However, injecting partisan politics into what's supposed to be a nonpartisan election focused on solving real, local issues is a bit silly, and it promotes a political environment that I just can't go along with.

[QAnonKelly]

WSB has Bottoms up by 2 now.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

BOTTOMS TOOK THE LEAD WITH 88% IN.

MASSIVE VOTE DUMP.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Keisha in the lead with 89 percent reporting.

51-49.

Must have been a massive vote dump from the South Side.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

PredictIt markets have Bottoms skyrocketing to 90.

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The GA GOP if Norwood wins as an "Independent"

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Meh. It's not like the GA GOP would ever nominate her for statewide office anyway. Or for a Congressional seat in a D+43 city

I still think the GOP winning a Mayoral Election in one of the biggest D cities in the South is a huge win, especially if the candidate is hiding the fact that they're an R.

It appears not to matter

[Jeppe]

Bottoms now up 52-48 with 89% reporting.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Well that worked out nicely. I'm just happy because now it means the GOP and Trump can't brag about winning Atlanta and that it's a part of MAGAmentum.

[Roronoa D. Law]

The GA GOP if Norwood wins as an "Independent"

-snip-

Meh. It's not like the GA GOP would ever nominate her for statewide office anyway. Or for a Congressional seat in a D+43 city

I still think the GOP winning a Mayoral Election in one of the biggest D cities in the South is a huge win, especially if the candidate is hiding the fact that they're an R.

It appears not to matter

Hold up now one of my main problems with Norwood is I feel she is not tough against gentrification in the city. If she were to become mayor and does not take gentrification seriously we could see many African Americans move out the city into the suburbs. This will make the suburbs even more Democratic and the city will continue to vote at the same margin but with even more people thanks to pretty new condominiums that start in 400k.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Let's go Keisha!!! That vote dump was a relief. Hold on just a little longer.

[Jeppe]

After eyeballing the remaining dozen or so precincts left to report, I'm 99% sure Keisha Lance Bottoms is going to win. The precincts are split somewhat evenly between Bottoms and Norwood precincts, with probably a few more Bottoms precincts.

[MT Treasurer]

Looks like Bottoms has this.

[scutosaurus]

Well, congratulations to all the Bottoms supporters on here. She obviously wasn't my preferred candidate, but I guess I'd better start getting used to her!

[Rookie Yinzer]

To someone who has been watching the precinct map... is it me or did Bottoms flip some of those DeKalb precincts from Norwood as the night wore on? I thought Norwood would win that handily but now it looks like she underperformed.

[Jeppe]

To someone who has been watching the precinct map... is it me or did Bottoms flip some of those DeKalb precincts from Norwood as the night wore on? I thought Norwood would win that handily but now it looks like she underperformed.

She did, but the ones she flipped were majority black anyway, so it wasn't a big surprise.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

So it looks like the remaining votes will come from the East which is pretty much split between Norwood and Bottoms. Keisha has pretty much wrapped this up.

[Jeppe]

The "east precincts" are empty precincts, they didn't have any votes in November, they won't have any votes tonight. All the remaining votes are scattered around Fulton County.