So many POC live in Georgia that I'm shocked it took till now.
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.I'll believe it when I see Ossoff and Warnock on the Senate floor.
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.AZ and GA should replace IA and OH for democratic candidates running in the general election. They have democratic futures. IA and OH are trending away, and are even redder than TX!
sounds like Ohio.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.
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.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.
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.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.
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.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.
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, thoughDo we think Georgia will follow Virginia's path and stay blue for the next elections until it eventually becomes a safe blue state?
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.Do we think Georgia will follow Virginia's path and stay blue for the next elections until it eventually becomes a safe blue state?
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.
Though it seems like Ohio has flipped from being a swing state to pretty firmly red.Georgia prob going to be blue going forward as well. You fucking love to see it.
Do we think Georgia will follow Virginia's path and stay blue for the next elections until it eventually becomes a safe blue state?
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.Pretty much just Atlanta getting bigger and things slowly spreading to close cities.
Diversity in big cities opens peoples minds, who knew?
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.Do we think Georgia will follow Virginia's path and stay blue for the next elections until it eventually becomes a safe blue state?
The power of Ross Perot in 1992!
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.So many POC live in Georgia that I'm shocked it took till now.
Welcome to voter suppression. Repubs messed with the Voting Rights Act for a reason.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.
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.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.
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.Welcome to voter suppression. Repubs messed with the Voting Rights Act for a reason.
Seeing this, makes me think of the last scene in True Detective Season 1
After years on the sidelines of presidential elections, Georgia got the full swing-state treatment from the candidates and their campaigns this fall. Trump poured more than $15 million into TV ads in Georgia since June, making it one of the few states where he outspent Biden on TV, with the Democrat focusing his resources elsewhere.
Ivanka Trump visited Atlanta on Oct. 13 in an attempt to win back suburban women, a once-strong demographic for Republicans that has moved away from the party in the past four years. Trump traveled to Macon three days later, following his treatment for Covid-19, and Donald Trump Jr. also held events in Macon and Atlanta before the election to rally support for his father.
Meanwhile, Biden also visited Georgia for the first time as the party nominee a week before the election, holding a large drive-in rally in Atlanta. Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris spoke at Morehouse College to woo Black voters. And the Biden campaign brought in former President Barack Obama as the party's closing act in Atlanta the day before the election.
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.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.
Voter suppression and disenfranchisement is a hell of a thing.So many POC live in Georgia that I'm shocked it took till now.
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.
God, remember all that money and time Biden spent on Ohio? I can't believe Biden only visited Georgia once.
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 votesyeah, no kidding. Looking at the results that year, it's nuts that he had ~20% of the vote in some states.
He would have had more votes I suspect, if he hadn't dropped out and then re-entered.yeah, no kidding. Looking at the results that year, it's nuts that he had ~20% of the vote in some states.