Georgia's Very Own Megathread!

[GlobeSoc]

LOL Cagle. By all means, please push the Delta-employed white folks in Cobb, Forsyth, and Gwinnett out of your camp. 

What is the distribution of delta employees in Georgia actually? Is there a map anywhere of it?

[GlobeSoc]

Just found out that someone who is a family friend is challenging Rep. Gerald Greene (R) in a majority-black district in rural SW Georgia. Hillary won here 52-46, and Obama 2012 won here 56-43 (!) so clearly Abrams should provide enough coattails to help her over the line. Abrams will be opening two field offices down there in the coming weeks so I suspect the Democratic presence in the community to be strong over the next 8 months presuming Abrams wins the primary of course .

>Republican in majority black district

Lolwut

[GlobeSoc]

Abrams probably killed any chance of breaking thru with whites when she proposed this.

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http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/ga-politician-stone-mountains-confederate-carvings-should-be-removed

Wanting to alter one of the most popular attraction in the state seems so stupid.

Rule 7 of politics: soundbites/national news coverage or it didn't happen

[GlobeSoc]

latinos in gwinnett will spam the polls and make it a safe D county in the GOV race this november.

[GlobeSoc]

If you have a chance can you do Henry? That’s a swing County with quite a few contested D primaries in districts where the R incumbents have had token or no opposition.

And also Newton County because I live there.

Thanks for the info!

Sure thing - I'm gonna finish up the southern metro later this evening, along with Augusta and Valdosta and maybe a couple of other counties.

Could you do Quitman and Fannin counties? I want to see how Obama-Trump Georgia and the northern rural counties are behaving

[GlobeSoc]

VA 2006

[GlobeSoc]

Based on that 40 county map I'm guessing that, in the blank counties, dems are marginally improving in the white southeast, losing in the black belt, gaining in the northwest, and losing in the northeast

I wonder why dems are underperforming 2014 in Richmond county. I understand the rural black counties as many black people have been moving out of them to a city / suburb, but why Richmond?

Also, what would happen to Georgia's politics if Amazon put a headquarters in Atlanta?

Atlanta-area whites would shift left faster than you can say "techie liberals"

[GlobeSoc]

I'm not going to ask for a map of it but is the story in Quitman repeating in the other Obama-Trump counties, at a glance?

[GlobeSoc]

Interesting that basically all of Earl Buddy Carter's district swung dem, even though the district has a strong white rural presence.

[GlobeSoc]

The GOP collapse in Clinch county is hilarious

Why did that happen, since it was a major Trump country county in Georgia? (Both heavily GOP and swinging heavily GOP in 2016)

[GlobeSoc]

Starting to dig through the county-level demographic data for the primary...here's a teaser map, showing which racial group was the largest bloc in the Democratic primary (left) and the gubernatorial results (right):

 

Might look a tad familiar:

Why did Abrams do well in ultra-white northwest Georgia in the primary?

[GlobeSoc]

Starting to dig through the county-level demographic data for the primary...here's a teaser map, showing which racial group was the largest bloc in the Democratic primary (left) and the gubernatorial results (right):

 

Might look a tad familiar:

Why did Abrams do well in ultra-white northwest Georgia in the primary?

Did you mean Northeast Georgia? It's actually quite a bit whiter than Northwest GA (relatively speaking). Nevertheless, Evans had a home turf advantage of sorts in Northwest GA, or else Abrams would have probably done even better in the NW part of the state than in the NE. I would say Whitfield's 45% non-white Democratic electorate is a good indicator of that potential performance; it off-set the hometurf advantage Evans otherwise enjoyed among white voters in this region, which allowed Abrams to clear 60% (whereas she lost or was in the 50s in most of the rest of the counties).

yea