GA-UGA (AJC/WSB-TV): Abrams/Kemp tied at 45

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Obviously Abrams and Kemp will both get at least 45%. My guess is they stay knotted up like this for a while, maybe even the entire race, but Abrams' biggest obstacle remains the fact that she needs a majority rather than a plurality. The fact that Georgia "undecideds" always seem to break Republican doesn't help matters either (shout out to Adam Griffin if he wants to go on a rant about this. )

Lean R

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New Poll: Georgia Governor by Atlanta Journal Constitution on 2018-09-04

Summary: D: 45%, R: 45%, U: 10%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details

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If Dems ever capture the GA legislature again...they really need to junk this primary runoff system

Agreed. What's the point of runoff elections? Far more often than not, they end up having far lower turnout than the first round, and destroys county finances as they have to pay hundreds of thousands to conduct as many as 4 elections in a year.

Presumably so the blacks have two chances to forget to vote.

"Fiscally responsible"

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How can there be a runoff with just two candidates? I keep hearing people obsessing over a runoff but the only two candidates I ever hear mentioned are Kemp and Abrams. That means mathematically, one of them must reach 50+ in the first round. And if there are other candidates, the fact that they're so unknown that I, a well-informed poster who has been following this race for months, has not heard any of their names mentioned even a single time, suggests there will be no runoff.

I doubt many people heard of Allen Buckley in 2008.