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Republicans And Democrats Agree, Deep-South Georgia Is Turning Blue

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013 2:59 PM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

What's going on in Georgia? The race for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Saxby Chambliss is getting interesting and a Democrat may give Republicans a run for their money for Governor.

A number of ominous signs have emerged for the GOP in these races. In November, the conservative paper Savannah Morning News published a positive editorial about one of the candidates for the Senate seat, Michelle Nunn (daughter of former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, who represented Georgia for 24 years). It read, in part:

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Ms. Nunn appears to be cut from the JFK kind of Democratic cloth: Ask what you can do for your country, and your community, on your own time and your own dime. Compared to many others in her party in Congress, she’s a refreshing voice.

Former Senator John Warner (R-Va.) attended a fundraising dinner for Nunn, which was followed by a $500 donation from his PAC.

On the Republican side, in the worst possible scenario for the GOP, a whole gaggle of candidates are competing for the Republican nomination for the seat. On the one hand is Rep. Paul Broun, who says evolution, embryology, and the big-bang theory are “lies straight from the pit of Hell”. On the other is Rep. Phil Gingrey. Gingrey is an obstetrician-gynecologist who recently kinda-sorta backed Todd Akin’s infamous declaration that women don’t get pregnant from a “legitimate rape”. In a statement that has some strategists groaning, Gingrey said Akin was “partly right” about rape. In addition, several of the candidates are competing to see who can be most ‘anti-immigrant’ — in the state with the fastest-growing Latino population.

Not surprisingly, the field of candidates from which Republicans will choose has the party’s leaders concerned. Conservative political strategist Eric Tanenblatt sounds worried. According to The Hill, he said:

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Georgia is changing, and the further you go to the right in the primary, the more difficult that becomes in the general. If we’re not careful, we could create an unfortunate situation for ourselves.

Recent polling shows Gingrey Broun leading the pack. Whoever emerges from the clown-car primary, with seven candidates and counting, will face a candidate Democrats are high on in a state where shifting demographics benefit their party. Losing Georgia's open Senate seat would do severe damage to Republicans' hopes of winning the net of six seats necessary to take control of the Senate.

Then there's the Governor's race. Jimmy Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter is running for governor in 2014 against the incumbent Republican. It’s mostly Carter’s fundraising capabilities that are still in question. However, he thinks he’s found the campaign weak spot for Governor Nathan Deal. That would be Deal’s refusal to use federal funds to expand Medicaid in Georgia. In criticizing the governor’s position, Carter says:

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Our federal tax dollars are going to expand and improve health care in New Jersey and Florida and other places with Republican governors, and Georgia is not getting those benefits. And that’s because the governor is just consumed by the Washington politics of Obamacare.

The Black Caucus of Georgia’s Legislature has asked the governor to expand Medicaid. If he doesn’t relent, hundreds of thousands of Georgians will remain uncovered by health insurance. However, Deal seems to be one of those who is ignoring his state’s changing demographics, as well as the voices who represent the influx of new voters. All of this can only well serve Carter’s campaign.

All this comes at a time when Georgia has supposedly "the fast-growing African-American and Hispanic populations and a large number of younger voters moving in from across the country" ( http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/316489-gop-anxiety-gr
ows-over-georgia-senate-race#ixzz2bmdKSspa).

Carter and Nunn both represent themselves as ‘consensus-builders’ who will reach out to Republicans and independents. Because of these two candidates, the Georgia Democratic Party is optimistic about turning the state blue as early as 2014. Leaders are scrambling to organize for the change. The Republican Party agrees that Georgia is headed at least toward swing-state status — but not for "another 5-7 years". The upcoming primary battle, which promises to push Georgia’s GOP even further to the right, may be a first shock to the party’s entrenched state of denial.

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013 10:58 PM

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America loves a winner!

Daddy Nunn has always had a fine reputation by most here in the state. Name recognition alone is at work here, I'm sure.

The Carter brand is, let's just say, not what it use to be.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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