Are you sick of the Stacey Abrams hype?

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

This is the person who deserves to break the glass ceiling not some super privileged rich white woman married to a President to advance her career. I would be totally behind her. She doesn't get enough hype.

[Technocracy Timmy]

BRTD can’t stand successful black women but worships a white dude who didn’t even get a stable job until he was well into his 30’s/40’s.

Well I suppose that’s his personal connection with Bernie Sanders.

[scutosaurus]

As a Georgia Democrat, of course not.

[here2view]

I'm sick of pointless BRTD threads.

[Lord Admirale]

I hope she runs, cause she would lose in a general election nationally.

If she wins in Georgia then she'd win nationwide. Only really if she loses by mid to high single digits or more would she lose nationwide.

"If Chris Christie wins in New Jersey then he'd in nationwide."

Come on.

Chris Christie is an electoral titan  you

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

BRTD can’t stand successful black women but worships a white dude who didn’t even get a stable job until he was well into his 30’s/40’s.

Well I suppose that’s his personal connection with Bernie Sanders.

Yeah, because it's not like I don't hold a job that requires a security clearance, and still work my old job that requires a state license part time, and have never been unemployed at any time for over a decade.

[TPIG]

Yes, I think she is a good candidate, herself, but the hype that is built up around her, as though she has the governor's race/a presidential future on lock, makes a lot of people resent her candidacy.

[Orwell]

Stacy Evans would have been a better candidate

[President Johnson]

Better than the Oprah hype LOL

[ON Progressive]

Stacy Evans would have been a better candidate

The person who lost their primary by 53 points would've been a better candidate? LOL.

[IceSpear]

Stacy Evans would have been a better candidate

The person who lost their primary by 53 points would've been a better candidate? LOL.

To be fair, Roy Moore would beat Charlie Baker by at least 53 points in an Alabama Republican primary, yet it's no question Baker would be the better candidate.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Almost as much as of the OP's posts.

[Devout Centrist]

She's resolute, charismatic, intelligent, and a firm progressive. If she wins in Georgia, there's no way she doesn't instantly become a rising star in the Democratic Party.

That's the thing, most "rising stars" crash and burn.

Even if she doesn't that stuff does not make her a 100% GUARANTEED IMPOSSIBLE TO BEAT IN PRIMARY SAFE LOCK to be on a future Presidential ticket.

Obviously not, but she definitely has the political intelligence to not overestimate her position, assuming she wins the gubernatorial election.

[Peanut]

No because Stacey Abrams is running a high energy campaign and has proven to be a massive FF.

[Technocracy Timmy]

BRTD can’t stand successful black women but worships a white dude who didn’t even get a stable job until he was well into his 30’s/40’s.

Well I suppose that’s his personal connection with Bernie Sanders.

Yeah, because it's not like I don't hold a job that requires a security clearance, and still work my old job that requires a state license part time, and have never been unemployed at any time for over a decade.

Bruh you post 15-16 times a day on average on this site alone going back to 2004. Whatever job (assuming you have one - let alone two) you have is about as productive as being unemployed.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

BRTD can’t stand successful black women but worships a white dude who didn’t even get a stable job until he was well into his 30’s/40’s.

Well I suppose that’s his personal connection with Bernie Sanders.

Yeah, because it's not like I don't hold a job that requires a security clearance, and still work my old job that requires a state license part time, and have never been unemployed at any time for over a decade.

Bruh you post 15-16 times a day on average on this site alone going back to 2004. Whatever job (assuming you have one - let alone two) you have is about as productive as being unemployed.

In my part time job I've ensured Medicare coverage of lifesaving cancer treating drugs on multiple occasions, ensured immediate and needed treatment in assisted living facilities for people with kidney disease, and there's a rather significant chance that I'm responsible for servicing your student loan accounts with my full time one.

[President Johnson]

Stacy Evans would have been a better candidate

The person who lost their primary by 53 points would've been a better candidate? LOL.

To be fair, Roy Moore would beat Charlie Baker by at least 53 points in an Alabama Republican primary, yet it's no question Baker would be the better candidate.

53 points is probably an understatement.

[136or142]

Stacy Abrams has the chance to fulfill the dream that Jesse Jackson had with his Rainbow Coalition to unite poor and middle class people of all races behind progressive but practical economic policies.  As we saw in Missouri, a coalition like that resulted in 2/3 of the vote in overturning the so-called 'right to work' law.

I can just imagine that Republicans are scared to death of Stacy Abrams getting elected.  (Though  getting elected is just the first step.)

[Badger]

Not quite, but there seems to be a lot of unsupported confidence for her winning the governor's race. The last couple polls show a neck and neck race with about 10% undecided. And we all know how southern voters "undecided" on supporting a black candidate usually fall in the end.

Add to that Georgia's requirement of a candidate getting 50% + 1 to win or go into a runoff where minority voting tanks, and I'd call this race still at least lean R.

[136or142]

Not quite, but there seems to be a lot of unsupported confidence for her winning the governor's race. The last couple polls show a neck and neck race with about 10% undecided. And we all know how southern voters "undecided" on supporting a black candidate usually fall in the end.

Add to that Georgia's requirement of a candidate getting 50% + 1 to win or go into a runoff where minority voting tanks, and I'd call this race still at least lean R.

I don't think I agree with that. As far as I can tell the take here anyway is that she's very unlikely to win.  ("Georgia voters are too inelastic.")

[OneJ]

Anyone remembers Jon Ossoff?

[I Can Now Die Happy]

I'm not at all bothered by the Stacey Abrams hype. The only things that annoy me in the slightest on this forum are John Kasich landslide fantasies and posts which accept the Russia collusion conspiracy theory as true. Keep in mind that they don't even annoy me *that* much, except when the latter is used to dismiss legitimate movements like #WalkAway as astroturfed by Russians, and even then it just generates an eyeroll.

Abrams herself is an interesting case to look at, because it signifies how Georgia's political landscape has changed, and makes one wonder how an underdog with a detailed plan will do in the end.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Anyone remembers Jon Ossoff?

Ossoff was
1) A victim of his own hype
2) An underwhelming candidate at the end of the day
3) Running before Charlottesville awakened the sleeping giant of the Black Vote from its post-Obama slumber (see: VA-GOV, AL-SEN Special)
4) Running before Dems figured out that the way to neutralize the NANCY PELOSI MUH SAN FRANCISCO VALUES was to just say he wouldn't vote for her for speaker

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Hardly the worst or most absurd hype I've seen on the Atlas.