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Georgia projected for Joe Biden, flips blue for the first time since 1992
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Kind of a harsh generalization, I mean it's more complicated than that. Plenty of blue voters in the other states (and red voters in GA) the Electoral College just makes it seem like it's all or nothing.
The majority of the country's black people live in these red southern states. Voter suppression is the Republicans' #1 tool on keeping a stranglehold there.
I mean it's just a matter of time. States like GA and TX are getting bluer by the year as people move in for tech jobs and the like.
It's just a question of how many more election cycles before it is a stable blue state, not if.
Iowa is a fucking disaster. Our economy is backsliding hard, all our educated talent is moving elsewhere, and our elected officials are working hard to make Iowa even less attractive.
And to top it all off, we're among the worst states in the nation when it comes to COVID-19.
I have spent 11 years of my life in Iowa. Fuck Iowa.
sounds like Ohio.
As a native son in Ohio, I can tell you first hand that the brain drain of talented kids leaving the state to enrich other states and economies is realllllly real. Those are blue voters heading out, leaving nothing but red behind.
I hear Iowa and I think corn fields and primaries. What is the state really like. Trump's trade war couldn't have benefit the farmers, not sure why they voted for him.
Can you blame them? In Iowa there's nothing here for someone above a high school education, our culture has become incredibly ugly and anti-intellectual, and our state government has zero interest in fostering growth.
A lot of corn fields and some scattered cities. No really big urban centers; the biggest is Des Moines with a bit over 200k people.
Trump repeatedly prioritized giving subsidies to farmers to offset the damage from the trade war, but even with that, it's not like they're voting for economic reasons.
The demographic shifts in Georgia are all in the Democrats' favour, so I would say the blue-ing will continue. It will probably take longer to transition than Virginia due to the continued Republican control of state government, though
Born, raised and voted ATLien here. Feels good, bros. It was only a matter of time with GA, didn't think it would be this early though. Thanks to those that voted, volunteered and worked to help make it happen.
But everyone knows that Donnie won Georgia...
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This is why you go out and vote folks. Doesn't matter if you live in a red or blue state. Nothing is set in stone.
Virginia turned blue due to massive upspring of well educated, middle to upper class neighborhoods in NoVA. Partly due to massive defense industry employing hundreds and thousands of people in technical and IT positions. Even i worked in that sector for a while.
If Georgia were to turn blue it would have to be other factors.
He really is powerless. It's infuriating seeing the entire GOP lick his boots because they need his cult.
Pretty much just Atlanta getting bigger and things slowly spreading to close cities.
Diversity in big cities opens peoples minds, who knew?
Though it seems like Ohio has flipped from being a swing state to pretty firmly red.
It's gonna be a battle ground again. It won't be safe as long as the state legislature is red. The gerrymandering this cycle will probably be uncanny.
Yeah ATL is basically the Hollywood of the South with so much production going on down there. It's expanding rapidly. I imagine if it keeps growing, it will be reliably blue sooner than later.
I'd love that, but will def take a lot of effort and years before that happens. But I am happy that it can actually happen.
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yeah, no kidding. Looking at the results that year, it's nuts that he had ~20% of the vote in some states.
That's what I always think when I see how deep red states like Mississippi and Louisiana are, since they've got such big AA communities.
Welcome to voter suppression. Repubs messed with the Voting Rights Act for a reason.
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Last time GA went blue was a few months before I was born. Lots of history being made this election.
Mississippi has some real insidious and racist rules. For you to win statewide office, you had to win a majority of COUNTIES, not votes. which meant basically no black person would have ever won a state wide office. They repealed that this year luckily, so they are on the right track. But yes, dozens of years of beating down and suppressing the black vote in these southern states has led to a lot of apathy in these communities. But its changing now, as people are beginning to see there is still hope for change.
It's also extreme racial polarization. When whites vote Republican by comical margins, they're able to overrun any black vote, as sizable as it is.
Seeing this, makes me think of the last scene in True Detective Season 1
Happy to see my home state is showing it can change, slowly but surely.
God, remember all that money and time Biden spent on Ohio? I can't believe Biden only visited Georgia once.
I have yet to see the data on it. But I'm willing to bet that Stacey Abrams winning the gubernatorial election--only for the governorship to be stolen from her--a couple of years ago really caught a lot of notice here in Georgia that actual change was possible. Such kudos to her for keeping that ball of momentum rolling for this year's presidential election, picking up so many further thousands of voters along the way.
I was always "I'll believe it when I see it" because as a life long Georgian, I know how backwards this state can be. After Kemp's previous win, I didn't trust the early poll numbers at all. On my own street, I have neighbors that told my family they don't believe in masks nor participate in social distancing because they think it's a political thing, even though every single one of them got sick or had to isolate themselves for 14 days at some point during the pandemic. It has been frustrating to be around these people.
This flip though...
It's a nice feeling to know people out there voted with their brain and not purely on party loyalty. GA still has a long way to go, but this is a good start.
This flip though...
It's a nice feeling to know people out there voted with their brain and not purely on party loyalty. GA still has a long way to go, but this is a good start.
Seeing this, you could always count on the actual cities to go Blue. Columbus, Savannah, Albany, Augusta, and eventually Macon. But you can also see where the white flight to the county/s next door happened. Harris County, Warner Robbins, Evans and Martinez near Augusta, Tifton and other little communities.
Voter suppression and disenfranchisement is a hell of a thing.
In a just world Abrams should be able to walk up to the DNC and get whatever the hell position she wants after doing what she did to drive turnout in the state.
I think this election should have shaken a lot of people's faith in the inevitability of victory through demo shifts. We saw a doomsday white supremacist gain ground with black voters, and a lot of ground with hispanic voters. And that's to say nothing of the Dems' response to this year's losses, which has thus far consisted of blaming leftists and BLM. It's too early to tell, but the party might be at a major crossroads and there's no guarantee they'll make the right choice.
Georgia is promising, but I'm not confident it isn't a one-off, and Texas is Lucy holding a football. I've been hearing "this is the year we flip Texas" since I was old enough to vote.
But we don't have to wait long to find out how it's gonna be. If Georgia can deliver the Senate, I'll be more than convinced. If it can't, even with the Democrats pouring every last ounce of energy they have left into these two races (this is the real spirit bomb), then no one should get too comfortable with Georgia wearing blue.
Never, ever bet on Ohio. Not in sports, not in politics, not in anything. Put us in the trash where we belong.
Not too surprising in hindsight. His popular infomercials played a lot during a time of much less media competition and as we have witnessed, being a tv personality can garner a lot of votes
He would have had more votes I suspect, if he hadn't dropped out and then re-entered.
I still can't believe this happened and I can't believe even more that it was Georgia AND Arizona. Trump will go to his grave knowing he lost in a - according to him - "landslide" in terms of the EC AND with record popular vote for his opponent all while losing two heavy red states. A fucking loser, like he has always been.